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אָמַר

a.marto sayHow to read Hebrew
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 54:6אָמַ֥ר · says
    For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.
  2. Isaiah 54:8אָמַ֥ר · says
    In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
  3. Isaiah 54:10אָמַ֥ר · says
    Though the mountains may be removed and the hills may be shaken, My loving devotion will not depart from you, and My covenant of peace will not be broken,” says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
  4. Isaiah 56:1אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “Maintain justice and do what is right, for My salvation is coming soon, and My righteousness will be revealed.
  5. Isaiah 56:3יֹאמַ֣ר · say; לֵאמֹ֔ר; יֹאמַר֙ · say
    Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”
  6. Isaiah 56:4אָמַ֣ר · says
    For this is what the LORD says: “To the eunuchs who keep My Sabbaths, who choose what pleases Me and hold fast to My covenant—
  7. Isaiah 57:10אָמַ֖רְתְּ · say
    You are wearied by your many journeys, but you did not say, “There is no hope!” You found renewal of your strength; therefore you did not grow weak.
  8. Isaiah 57:14וְאָמַ֥ר · And it will be said
    And it will be said, “Build it up, build it up, prepare the way, take every obstacle out of the way of My people.”
  9. Isaiah 57:15אָמַ֜ר · says
    For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: “I dwell in a high and holy place, and with the oppressed and humble in spirit, to restore the spirit of the lowly and revive the heart of the contrite.
  10. Isaiah 57:19אָמַ֥ר · says
    …bringing praise to their lips. Peace, peace to those far and near,” says the LORD, “and I will heal them.”
  11. Isaiah 57:21אָמַ֥ר · says
    “There is no peace,” says my God, “for the wicked.”
  12. Isaiah 58:9וְיֹאמַ֣ר · and He will say
    Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry out, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ If you remove the yoke from your midst, the pointing of the finger and malicious talk,
  13. Isaiah 59:21אָמַ֣ר · says; אָמַ֣ר · says
    “As for Me, this is My covenant with them,” says the LORD. “My Spirit will not depart from you, and My words that I have put in your mouth will not depart from your mouth or from the mouths of your children and grandchildren, from now on and forevermore,” says the LORD.
  14. Isaiah 61:6יֵאָמֵ֖ר · they will speak
    But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.
  15. Isaiah 62:4יֵאָמֵר֩ · will you be called; יֵאָמֵ֥ר · named
    No longer will you be called Forsaken, nor your land named Desolate; but you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the LORD will take delight in you, and your land will be His bride.
  16. Isaiah 62:11אִמְרוּ֙ · Say
    Behold, the LORD has proclaimed to the ends of the earth, “Say to Daughter Zion: See, your Savior comes! Look, His reward is with Him, and His recompense goes before Him.”
  17. Isaiah 63:8וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · For He said
    For He said, “They are surely My people, sons who will not be disloyal.” So He became their Savior.
  18. Isaiah 65:1אָמַ֙רְתִּי֙ · I said
    “I revealed Myself to those who did not ask for Me; I was found by those who did not seek Me. To a nation that did not call My name, I said, ‘Here I am! Here I am!’
  19. Isaiah 65:5הָאֹֽמְרִים֙ · They say
    They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
  20. Isaiah 65:7אָמַ֣ר · says
    …both for your iniquities and for those of your fathers,” says the LORD. “Because they burned incense on the mountains and scorned Me on the hills, I will measure into their laps full payment for their former deeds.”
  21. Isaiah 65:8אָמַ֣ר · says; וְאָמַר֙ · and men say
    This is what the LORD says: “As the new wine is found in a cluster of grapes, and men say, ‘Do not destroy it, for it contains a blessing,’ so I will act on behalf of My servants; I will not destroy them all.
  22. Isaiah 65:13אָמַ֣ר׀ · says
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: “My servants will eat, but you will go hungry; My servants will drink, but you will go thirsty; My servants will rejoice, but you will be put to shame.
  23. Isaiah 65:25אָמַ֥ר · says
    The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.
  24. Isaiah 66:1אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “Heaven is My throne, and earth is My footstool. What kind of house will you build for Me? Or where will My place of repose be?
  25. Isaiah 66:5אָמְרוּ֩ · have said
    You who tremble at His word, hear the word of the LORD: “Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of My name have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified that we may see your joy!’ But they will be put to shame.”
  26. Isaiah 66:9יֹאמַ֣ר · says; אָמַ֥ר · says
    Shall I bring a baby to the point of birth and not deliver it?” says the LORD. “Or will I who deliver close the womb?” says your God.
  27. Isaiah 66:12אָמַ֣ר · says
    For this is what the LORD says: “I will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a flowing stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm, and bounced upon her knees.
  28. Isaiah 66:20אָמַ֣ר · says
    And they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in a clean vessel to the house of the LORD.”
  29. Isaiah 66:21אָמַ֥ר · says
    “And I will select some of them as priests and Levites,” says the LORD.
  30. Isaiah 66:23אָמַ֥ר · says
    From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to worship before Me,” says the LORD.
  31. Jeremiah 1:4לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    The word of the LORD came to me, saying:
  32. Jeremiah 1:6וָאֹמַ֗ר · I said
    “Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”
  33. Jeremiah 1:7וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · told; תֹּאמַ֖ר · say
    But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ‘I am only a child.’ For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.
  34. Jeremiah 1:9וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · and said
    Then the LORD reached out His hand, touched my mouth, and said to me: “Behold, I have put My words in your mouth.
  35. Jeremiah 1:11לֵאמֹ֔ר · asking; וָאֹמַ֕ר · I replied
    And the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “Jeremiah, what do you see?” “I see a branch of an almond tree,” I replied.
  36. Jeremiah 1:12וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · said
    “You have observed correctly,” said the LORD, “for I am watching over My word to accomplish it.”
  37. Jeremiah 1:13לֵאמֹ֔ר · asking; וָאֹמַ֗ר · I replied
    Again the word of the LORD came to me, asking, “What do you see?” “I see a boiling pot,” I replied, “and it is tilting toward us from the north.”
  38. Jeremiah 1:14וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to me, “Disaster from the north will be poured out on all who live in the land.
  39. Jeremiah 2:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Now the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  40. Jeremiah 2:2לֵאמֹ֗ר · says; אָמַ֣ר
    “Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘I remember the devotion of your youth, your love as a bride, how you followed Me in the wilderness, in a land not sown.