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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. Jeremiah 2:5אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “What fault did your fathers find in Me that they strayed so far from Me? They followed worthless idols, and became worthless themselves.
  2. Jeremiah 2:6אָמְר֔וּ · ask
    They did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD who brought us up from the land of Egypt, who led us through the wilderness, through a land of deserts and pits, a land of drought and darkness, a land where no one travels and no one lives?’
  3. Jeremiah 2:8אָֽמְרוּ֙ · ask
    The priests did not ask, ‘Where is the LORD?’ The experts in the law no longer knew Me, and the leaders rebelled against Me. The prophets prophesied by Baal and followed useless idols.
  4. Jeremiah 2:20וַתֹּאמְרִ֖י · saying
    “For long ago you broke your yoke and tore off your chains, saying, ‘I will not serve!’ Indeed, on every high hill and under every green tree you lay down as a prostitute.
  5. Jeremiah 2:23תֹּאמְרִ֞י · can you say
    “How can you say, ‘I am not defiled; I have not run after the Baals’? Look at your behavior in the valley; acknowledge what you have done. You are a swift young she-camel galloping here and there,
  6. Jeremiah 2:25וַתֹּאמְרִ֣י · But you said
    You should have kept your feet from going bare and your throat from being thirsty. But you said, ‘It is hopeless! For I love foreign gods, and I must go after them.’
  7. Jeremiah 2:27אֹמְרִ֨ים · say; יֹֽאמְר֔וּ · they say
    …say to a tree, ‘You are my father,’ and to a stone, ‘You gave me birth.’ They have turned their backs to Me and not their faces. Yet in the time of trouble, they say, ‘Rise up and save us!’
  8. Jeremiah 2:31אָמְר֤וּ · say
    You people of this generation, consider the word of the LORD: “Have I been a wilderness to Israel or a land of dense darkness? Why do My people say, ‘We are free to roam; we will come to You no more’?
  9. Jeremiah 2:35וַתֹּֽאמְרִי֙ · you say; אָמְרֵ֖ךְ · you say
    …you say, ‘I am innocent. Surely His anger will turn from me.’ Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
  10. Jeremiah 3:1לֵאמֹ֡ר
    “If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.
  11. Jeremiah 3:6וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Now in the days of King Josiah, the LORD said to me, “Have you seen what faithless Israel has done? She has gone up on every high hill and under every green tree to prostitute herself there.
  12. Jeremiah 3:7וָאֹמַ֗ר · I thought
    I thought that after she had done all these things, she would return to Me. But she did not return, and her unfaithful sister Judah saw it.
  13. Jeremiah 3:11וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    And the LORD said to me, “Faithless Israel has shown herself more righteous than unfaithful Judah.
  14. Jeremiah 3:12וְ֠אָמַרְתָּ
    Go, proclaim this message toward the north: ‘Return, O faithless Israel,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will no longer look on you with anger, for I am merciful,’ declares the LORD. ‘I will not be angry forever.
  15. Jeremiah 3:16יֹ֣אמְרוּ · discuss
    “In those days, when you multiply and increase in the land,” declares the LORD, “they will no longer discuss the ark of the covenant of the LORD. It will never come to mind, and no one will remember it or miss it, nor will another one be made.
  16. Jeremiah 3:19אָמַ֗רְתִּי · said; וָאֹמַ֗ר · I thought
    Then I said, ‘How I long to make you My sons and give you a desirable land, the most beautiful inheritance of all the nations!’ I thought you would call Me ‘Father’ and never turn away from following Me.
  17. Jeremiah 4:3אָמַ֣ר · says
    For this is what the LORD says to the men of Judah and Jerusalem: “Break up your unplowed ground, and do not sow among the thorns.
  18. Jeremiah 4:5וְאִמְר֕וּ · and say; וְאִמְר֔וּ · and say
    Announce in Judah, proclaim in Jerusalem, and say: “Blow the ram’s horn throughout the land. Cry aloud and say, ‘Assemble yourselves and let us flee to the fortified cities.’
  19. Jeremiah 4:10וָאֹמַ֞ר · Then I said; לֵאמֹ֔ר · by saying
    Then I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, how completely You have deceived this people and Jerusalem by saying, ‘You will have peace,’ while a sword is at our throats.”
  20. Jeremiah 4:11יֵאָמֵ֤ר · it will be said
    At that time it will be said to this people and to Jerusalem, “A searing wind from the barren heights in the desert blows toward the daughter of My people, but not to winnow or to sift;
  21. Jeremiah 4:27אָמַ֣ר · says
    For this is what the LORD says: “The whole land will be desolate, but I will not finish its destruction.
  22. Jeremiah 5:2יֹאמֵ֑רוּ · they say
    Although they say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives,’ they are swearing falsely.”
  23. Jeremiah 5:4אָמַ֔רְתִּי · said
    Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.
  24. Jeremiah 5:12וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ · and said
    They have lied about the LORD and said: “He will not do anything; harm will not come to us; we will not see sword or famine.
  25. Jeremiah 5:14אָמַ֤ר · says
    Therefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
  26. Jeremiah 5:19תֹאמְר֔וּ · the people ask; וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · You are to tell
    And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods in your land, so will you serve foreigners in a land that is not your own.’”
  27. Jeremiah 5:20לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Declare this in the house of Jacob and proclaim it in Judah:
  28. Jeremiah 5:24אָמְר֣וּ · said
    They have not said in their hearts, ‘Let us fear the LORD our God, who gives the rains, both autumn and spring, in season, who keeps for us the appointed weeks of harvest.’
  29. Jeremiah 6:6אָמַר֙ · says
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Cut down the trees and raise a siege ramp against Jerusalem. This city must be punished; there is nothing but oppression in her midst.
  30. Jeremiah 6:9אָמַר֙ · says
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”
  31. Jeremiah 6:14לֵאמֹ֖ר · saying
    They dress the wound of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
  32. Jeremiah 6:15אָמַ֥ר · says
    Are they ashamed of the abomination they have committed? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; when I punish them, they will collapse,” says the LORD.
  33. Jeremiah 6:16אָמַ֣ר · says; וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ · But they said
    This is what the LORD says: “Stand at the crossroads and look. Ask for the ancient paths: ‘Where is the good way?’ Then walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls. But they said, ‘We will not walk in it!’
  34. Jeremiah 6:17וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ · But they answered
    I appointed watchmen over you and said, ‘Listen for the sound of the ram’s horn.’ But they answered, ‘We will not listen!’
  35. Jeremiah 6:21אָמַ֣ר · says
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “I will lay stumbling blocks before this people; fathers and sons alike will be staggered; friends and neighbors will perish.”
  36. Jeremiah 6:22אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “Behold, an army is coming from the land of the north; a great nation is stirred up from the ends of the earth.
  37. Jeremiah 7:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
  38. Jeremiah 7:2וְאָמַרְתָּ֞
    “Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to worship the LORD.
  39. Jeremiah 7:3אָמַ֞ר · says
    Thus says the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel: Correct your ways and deeds, and I will let you live in this place.
  40. Jeremiah 7:4לֵאמֹ֑ר · saying
    Do not trust in deceptive words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
  41. Jeremiah 7:10וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם · and say
    …and then come and stand before Me in this house, which bears My Name, and say, ‘We are delivered, so we can continue with all these abominations’?
  42. Jeremiah 7:20אָמַ֣ר׀ · says
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, My anger and My fury will be poured out on this place, on man and beast, on the trees of the field and the produce of the land, and it will burn and not be extinguished.
  43. Jeremiah 7:21אָמַ֛ר · says
    This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves!