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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 14:15אָמַ֣ר · says; אֹֽמְרִ֔ים · say
    Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!
  2. Jeremiah 14:17וְאָמַרְתָּ֤ · You are to speak
    You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.
  3. Jeremiah 15:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to me: “Even if Moses and Samuel should stand before Me, My heart would not go out to this people. Send them from My presence, and let them go!
  4. Jeremiah 15:2יֹאמְר֥וּ · they ask you; וְאָמַרְתָּ֨ · you are to tell them; אָמַ֣ר · says
    If they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘Those destined for death, to death; those destined for the sword, to the sword; those destined for famine, to famine; and those destined for captivity, to captivity.’
  5. Jeremiah 15:11אָמַ֣ר · said
    The LORD said: “Surely I will deliver you for a good purpose; surely I will intercede with your enemy in your time of trouble, in your time of distress.
  6. Jeremiah 15:19אָמַ֣ר · says
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “If you return, I will restore you; you will stand in My presence. And if you speak words that are noble instead of worthless, you will be My spokesman. It is they who must turn to you, but you must not turn to them.
  7. Jeremiah 16:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  8. Jeremiah 16:3אָמַ֣ר · says
    For this is what the LORD says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and the mothers who bore them, and the fathers who fathered them in this land:
  9. Jeremiah 16:5אָמַ֣ר · says
    Indeed, this is what the LORD says: “Do not enter a house where there is a funeral meal. Do not go to mourn or show sympathy, for I have removed from this people My peace, My loving devotion, and My compassion,” declares the LORD.
  10. Jeremiah 16:9אָמַ֜ר · says
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
  11. Jeremiah 16:10וְאָמְר֣וּ · they will ask
    When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our iniquity? What is the sin that we have committed against the LORD our God?’
  12. Jeremiah 16:11וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · Then you are to answer them
    Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and worshiped them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction.
  13. Jeremiah 16:14יֵאָמֵ֥ר · say
    Yet behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when they will no longer say, ‘As surely as the LORD lives, who brought the Israelites up out of the land of Egypt.’
  14. Jeremiah 16:19וְיֹאמְר֗וּ · and they will say
    O LORD, my strength and my fortress, my refuge in the day of distress, the nations will come to You from the ends of the earth, and they will say, “Our fathers inherited nothing but lies, worthless idols of no benefit at all.
  15. Jeremiah 17:5אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
  16. Jeremiah 17:15אֹמְרִ֖ים · keep saying
    Behold, they keep saying to me, “Where is the word of the LORD? Let it come now!”
  17. Jeremiah 17:19אָמַ֨ר · said
    This is what the LORD said to me: “Go and stand at the gate of the people, through which the kings of Judah go in and out; and stand at all the other gates of Jerusalem.
  18. Jeremiah 17:20וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · Say
    Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah, all people of Judah and Jerusalem who enter through these gates.
  19. Jeremiah 17:21אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
  20. Jeremiah 18:1לֵאמֹֽר׃
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
  21. Jeremiah 18:5לֵאמֽוֹר׃ · saying
    Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  22. Jeremiah 18:10אָמַ֖רְתִּי · I had intended for it
    …and if it does evil in My sight and does not listen to My voice, then I will relent of the good I had intended for it.
  23. Jeremiah 18:11אֱמָר־ · tell; לֵאמֹ֗ר · says; אָמַ֣ר
    Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’
  24. Jeremiah 18:12וְאָמְר֖וּ · But they will reply
    But they will reply, ‘It is hopeless. We will follow our own plans, and each of us will act according to the stubbornness of his evil heart.’”
  25. Jeremiah 18:13אָמַ֣ר · says
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: “Inquire among the nations: Who has ever heard things like these? Virgin Israel has done a most terrible thing.
  26. Jeremiah 18:18וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ · Then [some] said
    Then some said, “Come, let us make plans against Jeremiah, for the law will never be lost to the priest, nor counsel to the wise, nor an oracle to the prophet. Come, let us denounce him and pay no heed to any of his words.”
  27. Jeremiah 19:1אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter. Take some of the elders of the people and leaders of the priests,
  28. Jeremiah 19:3וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ · saying; אָמַר֩ · says
    …saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O kings of Judah and residents of Jerusalem. This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on this place that the ears of all who hear of it will ring,
  29. Jeremiah 19:11וְאָמַרְתָּ֨ · and you are to proclaim; אָמַ֣ר׀ · says
    …and you are to proclaim to them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: I will shatter this nation and this city, like one shatters a potter’s jar that can never again be repaired. They will bury the dead in Topheth until there is no more room to bury them.
  30. Jeremiah 19:14וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · and proclaimed
    Then Jeremiah returned from Topheth, where the LORD had sent him to prophesy, and he stood in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and proclaimed to all the people,
  31. Jeremiah 19:15אָמַ֞ר · says
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I am about to bring on this city and on all the villages around it every disaster I have pronounced against them, because they have stiffened their necks so as not to heed My words.’”
  32. Jeremiah 20:3וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    The next day, when Pashhur released Jeremiah from the stocks, Jeremiah said to him, “The LORD does not call you Pashhur, but Magor-missabib.
  33. Jeremiah 20:4אָמַ֣ר · says
    For this is what the LORD says: ‘I will make you a terror to yourself and to all your friends. They will fall by the sword of their enemies before your very eyes. And I will hand Judah over to the king of Babylon, and he will carry them away to Babylon and put them to the sword.
  34. Jeremiah 20:9וְאָמַרְתִּ֣י · If I say
    If I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
  35. Jeremiah 20:15לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    Cursed be the man who brought my father the news, saying, “A son is born to you,” bringing him great joy.
  36. Jeremiah 21:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · They said
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when King Zedekiah sent to him Pashhur son of Malchijah and the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah. They said,
  37. Jeremiah 21:3וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · answered; תֹאמְרֻ֖ן · You are to tell
    But Jeremiah answered, “You are to tell Zedekiah that
  38. Jeremiah 21:4אָמַ֨ר · says
    …this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city.
  39. Jeremiah 21:8תֹּאמַ֔ר · Furthermore, you are to tell; אָמַ֣ר · says
    Furthermore, you are to tell this people that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I set before you the way of life and the way of death.
  40. Jeremiah 21:12אָמַ֣ר · says
    O house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.
  41. Jeremiah 21:13הָאֹֽמְרִים֙ · you who say
    Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”