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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 22:1אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “Go down to the palace of the king of Judah and proclaim this message there,
  2. Jeremiah 22:2וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ · saying
    …saying, ‘Hear the word of the LORD, O king of Judah, who sits on the throne of David—you and your officials and your people who enter these gates.
  3. Jeremiah 22:3אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: Administer justice and righteousness. Rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor. Do no wrong or violence to the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow. Do not shed innocent blood in this place.
  4. Jeremiah 22:6אָמַ֣ר · says
    For this is what the LORD says concerning the house of the king of Judah: “You are like Gilead to Me, like the summit of Lebanon; but I will surely turn you into a desert, like cities that are uninhabited.
  5. Jeremiah 22:8וְאָֽמְרוּ֙ · and ask
    And many nations will pass by this city and ask one another, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this great city?’
  6. Jeremiah 22:9וְאָ֣מְר֔וּ · Then [people] will reply
    Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have worshiped and served other gods.’”
  7. Jeremiah 22:11אָֽמַר־ · says
    For this is what the LORD says concerning Shallum son of Josiah, king of Judah, who succeeded his father Josiah but has gone forth from this place: “He will never return,
  8. Jeremiah 22:14הָאֹמֵ֗ר · who says
    …who says, ‘I will build myself a great palace, with spacious upper rooms.’ So he cuts windows in it, panels it with cedar, and paints it with vermilion.
  9. Jeremiah 22:18אָמַ֣ר · says
    Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’
  10. Jeremiah 22:21אָמַ֖רְתְּ · You said
    I warned you when you were secure. You said, ‘I will not listen.’ This has been your way from youth, that you have not obeyed My voice.
  11. Jeremiah 22:30אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “Enroll this man as childless, a man who will not prosper in his lifetime. None of his descendants will prosper to sit on the throne of David or to rule again in Judah.”
  12. Jeremiah 23:2אָמַ֨ר · says
    Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the shepherds who tend My people: “You have scattered My flock and driven them away, and have not attended to them. Behold, I will attend to you for the evil of your deeds, declares the LORD.
  13. Jeremiah 23:7יֹ֤אמְרוּ · say
    So 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 23:15אָמַ֨ר · says
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says concerning the prophets: “I will feed them wormwood and give them poisoned water to drink, for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has spread throughout the land.”
  15. Jeremiah 23:16אָמַ֞ר · says
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Do not listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They are filling you with false hopes. They speak visions from their own minds, not from the mouth of the LORD.
  16. Jeremiah 23:17אֹמְרִ֤ים · They keep saying; אָמוֹר֙; אָֽמְר֔וּ · [and]
    They keep saying to those who despise Me, ‘The LORD says that you will have peace,’ and to everyone who walks in the stubbornness of his own heart, ‘No harm will come to you.’
  17. Jeremiah 23:25אָֽמְרוּ֙ · the sayings; לֵאמֹ֑ר
    “I have heard the sayings of the prophets who prophesy lies in My name: ‘I had a dream! I had a dream!’
  18. Jeremiah 23:33לֵאמֹ֔ר · you are to say; וְאָמַרְתָּ֤
    “Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’
  19. Jeremiah 23:34יֹאמַ֖ר · claims
    As for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.
  20. Jeremiah 23:35תֹאמְר֛וּ · is to say
    This is what each man is to say to his friend and to his brother: ‘What has the LORD answered?’ or ‘What has the LORD spoken?’
  21. Jeremiah 23:37תֹאמַ֖ר · you are to say
    Thus you are to say to the prophet: ‘What has the LORD answered you?’ and ‘What has the LORD spoken?’
  22. Jeremiah 23:38תֹּאמֵרוּ֒ · you claim; אָמַ֣ר · says; אֲמָרְכֶ֛ם · you have said; לֵאמֹ֔ר; תֹאמְר֖וּ · to make this claim
    But if you claim, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ then this is what the LORD says: Because you have said, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ and I specifically told you not to make this claim,
  23. Jeremiah 24:3וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · asked; וָאֹמַ֖ר · I replied
    “Jeremiah,” the LORD asked, “what do you see?” “Figs!” I replied. “The good figs are very good, but the bad figs are very bad, so bad they cannot be eaten.”
  24. Jeremiah 24:4לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  25. Jeremiah 24:5אָמַ֤ר · says
    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Like these good figs, so I regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans.
  26. Jeremiah 24:8אָמַ֣ר · says
    But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.
  27. Jeremiah 25:2לֵאמֹֽר׃ · as follows
    So the prophet Jeremiah spoke to all the people of Judah and all the residents of Jerusalem as follows:
  28. Jeremiah 25:5לֵאמֹ֗ר · [The prophets] told [you]
    The prophets told you, ‘Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways and deeds, and you can dwell in the land that the LORD has given to you and your fathers forever and ever.
  29. Jeremiah 25:8אָמַ֖ר · says
    Therefore this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘Because you have not obeyed My words,
  30. Jeremiah 25:15אָמַ֨ר · said
    This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, said to me: “Take from My hand this cup of the wine of wrath, and make all the nations to whom I send you drink from it.
  31. Jeremiah 25:27וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · Then you are to tell them; אָמַר֩ · says
    “Then you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Drink, get drunk, and vomit. Fall down and never get up again, because of the sword I will send among you.’
  32. Jeremiah 25:28וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · you are to tell them; אָמַ֛ר · says
    If they refuse to take the cup from your hand and drink it, you are to tell them that this is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘You most certainly must drink it!
  33. Jeremiah 25:30וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and say
    So you are to prophesy all these words against them and say to them: ‘The LORD will roar from on high; He will raise His voice from His holy habitation. He will roar loudly over His pasture; like those who tread the grapes, He will call out with a shout against all the inhabitants of the earth.
  34. Jeremiah 25:32אָמַר֙ · says
    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Behold! Disaster is spreading from nation to nation; a mighty storm is rising from the ends of the earth.”
  35. Jeremiah 26:1לֵאמֹֽר׃
    At the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came from the LORD:
  36. Jeremiah 26:2אָמַ֣ר · says
    “This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all the cities of Judah who come to worship there. Do not omit a word.
  37. Jeremiah 26:4וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · And you are to tell them; אָמַ֣ר · says
    And you are to tell them that this is what the LORD says: ‘If you do not listen to Me and walk in My law, which I have set before you,
  38. Jeremiah 26:8לֵאמֹ֖ר · shouting
    …and as soon as he had finished telling all the people everything the LORD had commanded him to say, the priests and prophets and all the people seized him, shouting, “You must surely die!