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אָמַר

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hebrewOld TestamentVerb5,308 occurrences39 books4,337 verses

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.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אָמַר:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

5,308 total
  1. Isaiah 23:4אָמַ֣ר · has spoken; לֵאמֹ֑ר
    Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
  2. Isaiah 23:12וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · He said
    He said, “You shall rejoice no more, O oppressed Virgin Daughter of Sidon. Get up and cross over to Cyprus—even there you will find no rest.”
  3. Isaiah 24:16וָאֹמַ֛ר · But I said
    From the ends of the earth we hear singing: “Glory to the Righteous One.” But I said, “I am wasting away! I am wasting away! Woe is me.” The treacherous betray; the treacherous deal in treachery.
  4. Isaiah 25:9וְאָמַר֙ · it will be said
    And in that day it will be said, “Surely this is our God; we have waited for Him, and He has saved us. This is the LORD for whom we have waited. Let us rejoice and be glad in His salvation.”
  5. Isaiah 28:12אָמַ֣ר · He has said
    …to whom He has said: “This is the place of rest, let the weary rest; this is the place of repose.” But they would not listen.
  6. Isaiah 28:15אֲמַרְתֶּ֗ם · you said
    For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
  7. Isaiah 28:16אָמַר֙ · says
    So this is what the Lord GOD says: “See, I lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure foundation; the one who believes will never be shaken.
  8. Isaiah 29:11לֵאמֹ֖ר; וְאָמַר֙ · he will say
    And the entire vision will be to you like the words sealed in a scroll. If it is handed to someone to read, he will say, “I cannot, because it is sealed.”
  9. Isaiah 29:12לֵאמֹ֖ר; וְאָמַ֕ר · he will say
    Or if the scroll is handed to one unable to read, he will say, “I cannot read.”
  10. Isaiah 29:13וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
  11. Isaiah 29:15וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ · and say
    Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
  12. Isaiah 29:16יֹאמַ֨ר · say; אָמַ֥ר · say
    You have turned things upside down, as if the potter were regarded as clay. Shall what is formed say to him who formed it, “He did not make me”? Can the pottery say of the potter, “He has no understanding”?
  13. Isaiah 29:22אָמַ֤ר · says
    Therefore the LORD who redeemed Abraham says of the house of Jacob: “No longer will Jacob be ashamed and no more will his face grow pale.
  14. Isaiah 30:10אָמְר֤וּ · say
    They say to the seers, “Stop seeing visions!” and to the prophets, “Do not prophesy to us the truth! Speak to us pleasant words; prophesy illusions.
  15. Isaiah 30:12אָמַר֙ · says
    Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
  16. Isaiah 30:15אָמַר֩ · has said
    For the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, has said: “By repentance and rest you would be saved; your strength would lie in quiet confidence—but you were not willing.”
  17. Isaiah 30:16וַתֹּ֨אמְר֥וּ · you say
    “No,” you say, “we will flee on horses.” Therefore you will flee! “We will ride swift horses,” but your pursuers will be faster.
  18. Isaiah 30:21לֵאמֹ֑ר
    And whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear this command behind you: “This is the way. Walk in it.”
  19. Isaiah 30:22תֹּ֥אמַר · saying
    So you will desecrate your silver-plated idols and your gold-plated images. You will throw them away like menstrual cloths, saying to them, “Be gone!”
  20. Isaiah 31:4אָֽמַר־ · has said
    For this is what the LORD has said to me: “Like a lion roaring or a young lion over its prey—and though a band of shepherds is called out against it, it is not terrified by their shouting or subdued by their clamor—so the LORD of Hosts will come down to do battle on Mount Zion and its heights.
  21. Isaiah 32:5יֵֽאָמֵ֖ר
    No longer will a fool be called noble, nor a scoundrel be respected.
  22. Isaiah 33:10יֹאמַ֣ר · says
    “Now I will arise,” says the LORD. “Now I will lift Myself up. Now I will be exalted.
  23. Isaiah 33:24יֹאמַ֥ר · will say
    And no resident of Zion will say, “I am sick.” The people who dwell there will be forgiven of iniquity.
  24. Isaiah 35:4אִמְרוּ֙ · Say
    Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”
  25. Isaiah 36:4וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; אִמְרוּ־ · Tell; אָמַ֞ר · says
    The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
  26. Isaiah 36:5אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ · You claim [to have]
    You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
  27. Isaiah 36:7תֹאמַ֣ר · you say; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · saying
    But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must worship before this altar’?
  28. Isaiah 36:10אָמַ֣ר · said
    So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
  29. Isaiah 36:11וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    Then Eliakim, Shebna, and Joah said to the Rabshakeh, “Please speak to your servants in Aramaic, since we understand it. Do not speak to us in Hebrew in the hearing of the people on the wall.”
  30. Isaiah 36:12וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · replied
    But the Rabshakeh replied, “Has my master sent me to speak these words only to you and your master, and not to the men sitting on the wall, who are destined with you to eat their own dung and drink their own urine?”
  31. Isaiah 36:13וַיֹּ֕אמֶר
    Then the Rabshakeh stood and called out loudly in Hebrew: “Hear the words of the great king, the king of Assyria!
  32. Isaiah 36:14אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the king says: Do not let Hezekiah deceive you, for he cannot deliver you.
  33. Isaiah 36:15לֵאמֹ֔ר · when he says
    Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
  34. Isaiah 36:16אָמַ֜ר · says
    Do not listen to Hezekiah, for this is what the king of Assyria says: Make peace with me and come out to me. Then every one of you will eat from his own vine and his own fig tree, and drink water from his own cistern,
  35. Isaiah 36:18לֵאמֹ֔ר · you when he says
    Do not let Hezekiah mislead you when he says, ‘The LORD will deliver us.’ Has the god of any nation ever delivered his land from the hand of the king of Assyria?
  36. Isaiah 36:21לֵאמֹ֖ר
    But the people remained silent and did not answer a word, for Hezekiah had commanded, “Do not answer him.”
  37. Isaiah 37:3וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ · to tell; אָמַ֣ר · says
    …to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
  38. Isaiah 37:6וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied; תֹאמְר֖וּן · Tell; אָמַ֣ר · says
    …who replied, “Tell your master that this is what the LORD says: ‘Do not be afraid of the words you have heard, with which the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed Me.
  39. Isaiah 37:9לֵאמֹ֔ר; לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Now Sennacherib had been warned about Tirhakah king of Cush: “He has set out to fight against you.” On hearing this, Sennacherib sent messengers to Hezekiah, saying,