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
- Genesis 31:43וַיֹּ֣אמֶרBut Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?
- Genesis 31:46וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said…and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
- Genesis 31:48וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · declaredThen Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.
- Genesis 31:49אָמַ֔ר · [Laban] saidIt was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.
- Genesis 31:51וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · also saidLaban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.
- Genesis 32:2וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · saidWhen Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.
- Genesis 32:4לֵאמֹ֔ר · You are to say; תֹאמְר֔וּן; אָמַר֙ · saysHe instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.
- Genesis 32:6לֵאמֹ֑ר · they saidWhen the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”
- Genesis 32:8וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · He thoughtHe thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”
- Genesis 32:9וַיֹּאמֶר֮ · declared; הָאֹמֵ֣ר · who toldThen Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
- Genesis 32:12אָמַ֔רְתָּ · have saidBut You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
- Genesis 32:16וַ֤יֹּאמֶר · and toldHe entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”
- Genesis 32:17לֵאמֹ֑ר; לֵאמֹ֔רHe instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’
- Genesis 32:18וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ · then you are to say…then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.’”
- Genesis 32:19לֵאמֹ֑רHe also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.
- Genesis 32:20וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם · to say; אָמַ֞ר · he thoughtYou are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”
- Genesis 32:26וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · Then [the man] said; וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · But Jacob repliedThen the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
- Genesis 32:27וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · the man asked; וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · he replied“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.
- Genesis 32:28וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · Then [the man] said; יֵאָמֵ֥ר · beThen the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
- Genesis 32:29וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙; וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · But he repliedAnd Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.
- Genesis 33:5וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · he asked; וַיֹּאמַ֕ר · [Jacob] answeredWhen Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
- Genesis 33:8וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · asked Esau; וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · [Jacob] answered“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
- Genesis 33:9וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · replied“I already have plenty, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what belongs to you.”
- Genesis 33:10וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · insistedBut Jacob insisted, “No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.
- Genesis 33:12וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · Then Esau saidThen Esau said, “Let us be on our way, and I will go ahead of you.”
- Genesis 33:13וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · But Jacob repliedBut Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
- Genesis 33:15וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said; וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · But [Jacob] replied“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
- Genesis 34:4וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · told; לֵאמֹ֑רSo Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”
- Genesis 34:8לֵאמֹ֑רBut Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
- Genesis 34:11וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; תֹּאמְר֛וּ · you askThen Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.
- Genesis 34:12תֹּאמְר֖וּ · you askDemand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
- Genesis 34:14וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ · they said“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
- Genesis 34:20לֵאמֹֽר׃So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:
- Genesis 34:30וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · saidThen Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
- Genesis 34:31וַיֹּאמְר֑וּ · But they repliedBut they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
- Genesis 35:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · saidThen God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”