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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. Jeremiah 7:23לֵאמֹר֙
    …but this is what I commanded them: Obey Me, and I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must walk in all the ways I have commanded you, so that it may go well with you.
  2. Jeremiah 7:28וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · Therefore you must say
    Therefore you must say to them, ‘This is the nation that would not listen to the voice of the LORD their God and would not receive correction. Truth has perished; it has disappeared from their lips.
  3. Jeremiah 7:32יֵאָמֵ֨ר · be called
    So behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when this place will no longer be called Topheth and the Valley of Ben-hinnom, but the Valley of Slaughter. For they will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room.
  4. Jeremiah 8:4וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · So you are to tell; אָמַ֣ר · says
    So you are to tell them this is what the LORD says: “Do men fall and not get up again? Does one turn away and not return?
  5. Jeremiah 8:6לֵאמֹ֖ר · asking
    I have listened and heard; they do not speak what is right. No one repents of his wickedness, asking, ‘What have I done?’ Everyone has pursued his own course like a horse charging into battle.
  6. Jeremiah 8:8תֹֽאמְרוּ֙ · can you say
    How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception?
  7. Jeremiah 8:11לֵאמֹ֖ר · saying
    They dress the wound of the daughter of My people with very little care, saying, ‘Peace, peace,’ when there is no peace at all.
  8. Jeremiah 8:12אָמַ֥ר · 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.
  9. Jeremiah 9:7אָמַר֙ · says
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the daughter of My people?
  10. Jeremiah 9:13וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · answered
    And the LORD answered, “It is because they have forsaken My law, which I set before them; they have not walked in it or obeyed My voice.
  11. Jeremiah 9:15אָמַ֞ר · says
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I will feed this people wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink.
  12. Jeremiah 9:17אָמַר֙ · says
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.
  13. Jeremiah 9:23אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.
  14. Jeremiah 10:2אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “Do not learn the ways of the nations or be terrified by the signs in the heavens, though the nations themselves are terrified by them.
  15. Jeremiah 10:18אָמַ֣ר · says
    For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.”
  16. Jeremiah 10:19אָמַ֔רְתִּי · said
    Woe to me because of my brokenness; my wound is grievous! But I said, “This is truly my sickness, and I must bear it.”
  17. Jeremiah 11:1לֵאמֹֽר׃
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
  18. Jeremiah 11:3וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · You must tell them that; אָמַ֥ר · says
    You must tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Cursed is the man who does not obey the words of this covenant,
  19. Jeremiah 11:4לֵאמֹ֗ר · saying
    …which I commanded your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the iron furnace, saying, ‘Obey Me, and do everything I command you, and you will be My people, and I will be your God.’
  20. Jeremiah 11:5וָאֹמַ֖ר
    This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.
  21. Jeremiah 11:6וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; לֵאמֹ֑ר · saying
    Then the LORD said to me, “Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying: Hear the words of this covenant and carry them out.
  22. Jeremiah 11:7לֵאמֹ֑ר · saying
    For from the time I brought your fathers out of the land of Egypt until today, I strongly warned them again and again, saying, ‘Obey My voice.’
  23. Jeremiah 11:9וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · told
    And the LORD told me, “There is a conspiracy among the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem.
  24. Jeremiah 11:11אָמַ֣ר · says
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: ‘I am about to bring upon them a disaster that they cannot escape. They will cry out to Me, but I will not listen to them.
  25. Jeremiah 11:21אָמַ֤ר · says; לֵאמֹ֑ר · and saying
    Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning the people of Anathoth who are seeking your life and saying, “You must not prophesy in the name of the LORD, or you will die by our hand.”
  26. Jeremiah 11:22אָמַר֙ · says
    So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
  27. Jeremiah 12:4אָמְר֔וּ · the people have said
    How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said, “He cannot see what our end will be.”
  28. Jeremiah 12:14אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “As for all My evil neighbors who attack the inheritance that I bequeathed to My people Israel, I am about to uproot them from their land, and I will uproot the house of Judah from among them.
  29. Jeremiah 13:1אָמַ֨ר · said
    This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and buy yourself a linen loincloth and put it around your waist, but do not let it touch water.”
  30. Jeremiah 13:3לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Then the word of the LORD came to me a second time:
  31. Jeremiah 13:6וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Many days later the LORD said to me, “Arise, go to Perath, and get the loincloth that I commanded you to hide there.”
  32. Jeremiah 13:8לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Then the word of the LORD came to me:
  33. Jeremiah 13:9אָמַ֣ר · says
    “This is what the LORD says: In the same way I will ruin the pride of Judah and the great pride of Jerusalem.
  34. Jeremiah 13:12וְאָמַרְתָּ֨ · Therefore you are to tell; אָמַ֤ר · says; וְאָמְר֣וּ · And when they reply
    Therefore you are to tell them that this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Every wineskin shall be filled with wine.’ And when they reply, ‘Don’t we surely know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?’
  35. Jeremiah 13:13וְאָמַרְתָּ֨ · then you are to tell; אָמַ֣ר · says
    …then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am going to fill with drunkenness all who live in this land—the kings who sit on David’s throne, the priests, the prophets, and all the people of Jerusalem.
  36. Jeremiah 13:18אֱמֹ֥ר · Say
    Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”
  37. Jeremiah 13:21תֹּֽאמְרִי֙ · will you say
    What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor?
  38. Jeremiah 13:22תֹאמְרִי֙ · you ask
    And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.
  39. Jeremiah 14:10אָמַ֨ר · says
    This is what the LORD says about this people: “Truly they love to wander; they have not restrained their feet. So the LORD does not accept them; He will now remember their iniquity and punish them for their sins.”
  40. Jeremiah 14:11וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to me, “Do not pray for the well-being of this people.
  41. Jeremiah 14:13וָאֹמַ֞ר · I replied; אֹמְרִ֤ים · are telling
    “Ah, Lord GOD!” I replied, “Look, the prophets are telling them, ‘You will not see the sword or suffer famine, but I will give you lasting peace in this place.’”
  42. Jeremiah 14:14וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    “The prophets are prophesying lies in My name,” replied the LORD. “I did not send them or appoint them or speak to them. They are prophesying to you a false vision, a worthless divination, the futility and delusion of their own minds.