Definition
a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude)
Traditional renderings: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, × desire, determine, × expressly, × indeed, × intend, name, × plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), × still, × suppose, talk, tell, term, × that is, × think, use (speech), utter, × verily, × yet.
Traditional renderings: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, × desire, determine, × expressly, × indeed, × intend, name, × plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), × still, × suppose, talk, tell, term, × that is, × think, use (speech), utter, × verily, × yet.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אָמַר:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
5,308 total
- Esther 2:15יֹאמַ֛ר · had advisedNow Esther was the daughter of Abihail, the uncle from whom Mordecai had adopted her as his own daughter. And when it was her turn to go to the king, she did not ask for anything except what Hegai, the king’s trusted official in charge of the harem, had advised. And Esther found favor in the eyes of everyone who saw her.
- Esther 2:22וַתֹּ֧אמֶר · informedWhen Mordecai learned of the plot, he reported it to Queen Esther, and she informed the king on Mordecai’s behalf.
- Esther 3:3וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ · askedThen the royal servants at the king’s gate asked Mordecai, “Why do you disobey the command of the king?”
- Esther 3:4בְּאָמְרָם · they warnedDay after day they warned him, but he would not comply. So they reported it to Haman to see whether Mordecai’s behavior would be tolerated, since he had told them he was a Jew.
- Esther 3:8וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · informedThen Haman informed King Xerxes, “There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples of every province of your kingdom. Their laws are different from everyone else’s, and they do not obey the king’s laws. So it is not in the king’s best interest to tolerate them.
- Esther 3:11וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said“Keep your money,” said the king to Haman. “These people are given to you to do with them as you please.”
- Esther 4:7אָמַ֤ר · had promised…and Mordecai told him all that had happened to him, including the exact amount of money that Haman had promised to pay into the royal treasury in order to destroy the Jews.
- Esther 4:10וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · spokeThen Esther spoke to Hathach and instructed him to tell Mordecai,
- Esther 4:13וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · sent back…he sent back to her this reply: “Do not imagine that because you are in the king’s palace you alone will escape the fate of all the Jews.
- Esther 4:15וַתֹּ֥אמֶר · this replyThen Esther sent this reply to Mordecai:
- Esther 5:3וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · inquired“What is it, Queen Esther?” the king inquired. “What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be given to you.”
- Esther 5:4וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · replied“If it pleases the king,” Esther replied, “may the king and Haman come today to the banquet I have prepared for the king.”
- Esther 5:5וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · commanded“Hurry,” commanded the king, “and bring Haman, so we can do as Esther has requested.” So the king and Haman went to the banquet that Esther had prepared.
- Esther 5:6וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · saidAnd as they drank their wine, the king said to Esther, “What is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”
- Esther 5:7וַתֹּאמַ֑רEsther replied, “This is my petition and my request:
- Esther 5:12וַיֹּאמֶר֮ · added“What is more,” Haman added, “Queen Esther invited no one but me to join the king at the banquet she prepared, and I am invited back tomorrow along with the king.
- Esther 5:14וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · told; אֱמֹ֣ר · and askHis wife Zeresh and all his friends told him, “Have them build a gallows fifty cubits high, and ask the king in the morning to have Mordecai hanged on it. Then go to the banquet with the king and enjoy yourself.” The advice pleased Haman, and he had the gallows constructed.
- Esther 6:1וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · so he orderedThat night sleep escaped the king; so he ordered the Book of Records, the Chronicles, to be brought in and read to him.
- Esther 6:3וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · inquired; וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ · repliedThe king inquired, “What honor or dignity has been bestowed on Mordecai for this act?” “Nothing has been done for him,” replied the king’s attendants.
- Esther 6:4וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · asked; לֵאמֹ֣ר · to ask“Who is in the court?” the king asked. Now Haman had just entered the outer court of the palace to ask the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows he had prepared for him.
- Esther 6:5וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ · answered him; וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · orderedSo the king’s attendants answered him, “Haman is there, standing in the court.” “Bring him in,” ordered the king.
- Esther 6:6וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · asked; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · thoughtHaman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”
- Esther 6:7וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · toldAnd Haman told the king, “For the man whom the king is delighted to honor,
- Esther 6:10וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said“Hurry,” said the king to Haman, “and do just as you proposed. Take the robe and the horse to Mordecai the Jew, who is sitting at the king’s gate. Do not neglect anything that you have suggested.”
- Esther 6:13וַיֹּ֩אמְרוּ֩ · saidHaman told his wife Zeresh and all his friends everything that had happened. His advisers and his wife Zeresh said to him, “Since Mordecai, before whom your downfall has begun, is Jewish, you will not prevail against him—for surely you will fall before him.”
- Esther 7:2וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · asked…and as they drank their wine on that second day, the king asked once more, “Queen Esther, what is your petition? It will be given to you. What is your request? Even up to half the kingdom, it will be fulfilled.”
- Esther 7:3וַתֹּאמַ֔רQueen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.
- Esther 7:5וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · spoke up; וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · and askedThen King Xerxes spoke up and asked Queen Esther, “Who is this, and where is the one who would devise such a scheme?”
- Esther 7:6וַתֹּ֣אמֶר־ · repliedEsther replied, “The adversary and enemy is this wicked man—Haman!” And Haman stood in terror before the king and queen.
- Esther 7:8וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · exclaimedJust as the king returned from the palace garden to the banquet hall, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually assault the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the words had left the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
- Esther 7:9וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said; וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · declaredThen Harbonah, one of the eunuchs attending the king, said: “There is a gallows fifty cubits high at Haman’s house. He had it built for Mordecai, who gave the report that saved the king.” “Hang him on it!” declared the king.
- Esther 8:5וַ֠תֹּאמֶר · she said“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
- Esther 8:7וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · saidSo King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.
- Esther 9:12וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said…who said to Queen Esther, “In the citadel of Susa the Jews have killed and destroyed five hundred men, including Haman’s ten sons. What have they done in the rest of the royal provinces? Now what is your petition? It will be given to you. And what further do you request? It will be fulfilled.”
- Esther 9:13וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · repliedEsther replied, “If it pleases the king, may the Jews in Susa also have tomorrow to carry out today’s edict, and may the bodies of Haman’s ten sons be hanged on the gallows.”
- Esther 9:14וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · commandedSo the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.
- Esther 9:25אָמַ֣ר · he commandedBut when it came before the king, he commanded by letter that the wicked scheme which Haman had devised against the Jews should come back upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.
- Job 1:5אָמַ֣ר · thoughtAnd when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s regular practice.
- Job 1:7וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · said; וַיֹּאמַ֔ר“Where have you come from?” said the LORD to Satan. “From roaming through the earth,” he replied, “and walking back and forth in it.”
- Job 1:8וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · saidThen the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”
- Job 1:9וַיֹּאמַ֑רSatan answered the LORD, “Does Job fear God for nothing?
- Job 1:12וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.