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
- Job 1:14וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · and reported…a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
- Job 1:16וַיֹּאמַר֒ · and reportedWhile he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The fire of God fell from heaven. It burned and consumed the sheep and the servants, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- Job 1:17וַיֹּאמַר֒ · and reportedWhile he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “The Chaldeans formed three bands, raided the camels, and took them away. They put the servants to the sword, and I alone have escaped to tell you!”
- Job 1:18וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · and reportedWhile he was still speaking, another messenger came and reported: “Your sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their oldest brother’s house,
- Job 1:21וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · saying…saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
- Job 2:2וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · 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 2:3וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · 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. He still retains his integrity, even though you incited Me against him to ruin him without cause.”
- Job 2:4וַיֹּאמַ֑ר“Skin for skin!” Satan replied. “A man will give up all he owns in exchange for his life.
- Job 2:6וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · said“Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
- Job 2:9וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · saidThen Job’s wife said to him, “Do you still retain your integrity? Curse God and die!”
- Job 2:10וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · he told“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.
- Job 3:2וַיֹּאמַֽר׃ · saidAnd this is what he said:
- Job 3:3אָ֝מַ֗ר · it was said“May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
- Job 4:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
- Job 6:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Job replied:
- Job 6:22אָ֭מַרְתִּי · saidHave I ever said, ‘Give me something; offer me a bribe from your wealth;
- Job 7:4וְאָמַ֗רְתִּי · I thinkWhen I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
- Job 7:13אָ֭מַרְתִּי · I thinkWhen I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
- Job 8:1וַיֹאמַֽר׃Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
- Job 8:10יֹ֣אמְרוּ · and tellWill they not teach you and tell you, and speak from their understanding?
- Job 9:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Job answered:
- Job 9:7הָאֹמֵ֣ר · He commandsHe commands the sun not to shine; He seals off the stars.
- Job 9:12יֹאמַ֥ר · dares to askIf He takes away, who can stop Him? Who dares to ask Him, ‘What are You doing?’
- Job 9:22אָמַ֑רְתִּי · I sayIt is all the same, and so I say, ‘He destroys both the blameless and the wicked.’
- Job 9:27אָ֭מְרִי · I were to sayIf I were to say, ‘I will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,’
- Job 10:2אֹמַ֣ר · I will sayI will say to God: Do not condemn me! Let me know why You prosecute me.
- Job 11:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
- Job 11:4וַ֭תֹּאמֶר · You have saidYou have said, ‘My doctrine is sound, and I am pure in Your sight.’
- Job 12:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Job answered:
- Job 15:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
- Job 16:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Job answered:
- Job 18:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
- Job 19:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Job answered:
- Job 19:28תֹ֭אמְרוּ · you sayIf you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
- Job 20:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Zophar the Naamathite replied:
- Job 20:7יֹאמְר֥וּ · will ask…he will perish forever, like his own dung; those who had seen him will ask, ‘Where is he?’
- Job 21:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Job answered:
- Job 21:14וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ · Yet they sayYet they say to God: ‘Leave us alone! For we have no desire to know Your ways.
- Job 21:28תֹֽאמְר֗וּ · you sayFor you say, ‘Where now is the nobleman’s house, and where are the tents in which the wicked dwell?’
- Job 22:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Eliphaz the Temanite replied:
- Job 22:13וְֽ֭אָמַרְתָּ · Yet you sayYet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
- Job 22:17הָאֹמְרִ֣ים · They saidThey said to God, ‘Depart from us. What can the Almighty do to us?’
- Job 22:29וַתֹּ֣אמֶר · and you sayWhen men are brought low and you say, ‘Lift them up!’ then He will save the lowly.
- Job 23:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Job answered:
- Job 23:5יֹּ֥אמַר · He would sayI would learn how He would answer, and consider what He would say.
- Job 24:15לֵ֭אמֹר · ThinkingThe eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
- Job 25:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Bildad the Shuhite replied:
- Job 26:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Then Job answered:
- Job 27:1וַיֹּאמַֽר׃Job continued his discourse: