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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 29:22לֵאמֹ֑ר
    Because of them, all the exiles of Judah who are in Babylon will use this curse: ‘May the LORD make you like Zedekiah and Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire!’
  2. Jeremiah 29:24תֹּאמַ֥ר · You are to tell; לֵאמֹֽר׃ · that
    You are to tell Shemaiah the Nehelamite that
  3. Jeremiah 29:25אָמַ֞ר · says; לֵאמֹ֑ר; לֵאמֹֽר׃ · You said [to Zephaniah]
    …this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “In your own name you have sent out letters to all the people of Jerusalem, to the priest Zephaniah son of Maaseiah, and to all the priests. You said to Zephaniah:
  4. Jeremiah 29:28לֵאמֹ֖ר · claiming
    For he has sent to us in Babylon, claiming: Since the exile will be lengthy, build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat their produce.’”
  5. Jeremiah 29:30לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
  6. Jeremiah 29:31לֵאמֹ֔ר · telling; אָמַ֣ר · says
    “Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,
  7. Jeremiah 29:32אָמַ֣ר · says
    …this is what the LORD says: ‘I will surely punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his descendants. He will have no one left among this people, nor will he see the good that I will bring to My people, declares the LORD, for he has preached rebellion against the LORD.’”
  8. Jeremiah 30:1לֵאמֹֽר׃
    This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
  9. Jeremiah 30:2אָמַ֧ר · says; לֵאמֹ֑ר
    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Write in a book all the words that I have spoken to you.
  10. Jeremiah 30:3אָמַ֣ר · declares
    For behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will restore from captivity My people Israel and Judah, declares the LORD. I will restore them to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they will possess it.’”
  11. Jeremiah 30:5אָמַ֣ר · says
    Yes, this is what the LORD says: “A cry of panic is heard—a cry of terror, not of peace.
  12. Jeremiah 30:12אָמַ֛ר · says
    For this is what the LORD says: “Your injury is incurable; your wound is grievous.
  13. Jeremiah 30:18אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “I will restore the fortunes of Jacob’s tents and have compassion on his dwellings. And the city will be rebuilt on her own ruins, and the palace will stand in its rightful place.
  14. Jeremiah 31:2אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “The people who survived the sword found favor in the wilderness when Israel went to find rest.”
  15. Jeremiah 31:7אָמַ֣ר · says; וְאִמְר֔וּ · and say
    For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’
  16. Jeremiah 31:10וְאִמְר֗וּ
    Hear, O nations, the word of the LORD, and proclaim it in distant coastlands: “The One who scattered Israel will gather them and keep them as a shepherd keeps his flock.
  17. Jeremiah 31:15אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”
  18. Jeremiah 31:16אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “Keep your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for the reward for your work will come, declares the LORD. Then your children will return from the land of the enemy.
  19. Jeremiah 31:23אָמַ֞ר · says; יֹאמְר֞וּ · speak
    This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “When I restore them from captivity, they will once again speak this word in the land of Judah and in its cities: ‘May the LORD bless you, O righteous dwelling place, O holy mountain.’
  20. Jeremiah 31:29יֹאמְר֣וּ · be said
    “In those days, it will no longer be said: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge.’
  21. Jeremiah 31:34לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    No longer will each man teach his neighbor or his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ because they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquities and will remember their sins no more.”
  22. Jeremiah 31:35אָמַ֣ר · says
    Thus says the LORD, who gives the sun for light by day, who sets in order the moon and stars for light by night, who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar—the LORD of Hosts is His name:
  23. Jeremiah 31:37אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: “Only if the heavens above could be measured and the foundations of the earth below searched out would I reject all of Israel’s descendants because of all they have done,” declares the LORD.
  24. Jeremiah 32:3לֵאמֹ֑ר · saying; לֵאמֹ֗ר · You claim that; אָמַ֣ר · says
    For Zedekiah king of Judah had imprisoned him, saying: “Why are you prophesying like this? You claim that the LORD says, ‘Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.
  25. Jeremiah 32:6וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · replied; לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Jeremiah replied, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying:
  26. Jeremiah 32:7לֵאמֹ֑ר · you to say
    Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’
  27. Jeremiah 32:8וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and urged me
    Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
  28. Jeremiah 32:13לֵאמֹֽר׃
    In their sight I instructed Baruch,
  29. Jeremiah 32:14אָמַר֩ · says
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Take these deeds—both the sealed copy and the open copy of the deed of purchase—and put them in a clay jar to preserve them for a long time.
  30. Jeremiah 32:15אָמַ֛ר · says
    For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Houses, fields, and vineyards will again be bought in this land.”
  31. Jeremiah 32:16לֵאמֹֽר׃
    After I had given the deed of purchase to Baruch son of Neriah, I prayed to the LORD:
  32. Jeremiah 32:25אָמַ֤רְתָּ · have said
    Yet You, O Lord GOD, have said to me, ‘Buy for yourself the field with silver and call in witnesses, even though the city has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans!’”
  33. Jeremiah 32:26לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
  34. Jeremiah 32:28אָמַ֣ר · says
    Therefore this is what the LORD says: Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hands of the Chaldeans and of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it.
  35. Jeremiah 32:36אָמַ֥ר · says; אֹמְרִ֗ים · say
    Now therefore, about this city of which you say, ‘It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword and famine and plague,’ this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says:
  36. Jeremiah 32:42אָמַ֣ר · says
    For this is what the LORD says: Just as I have brought all this great disaster on this people, so I will bring on them all the good I have promised them.
  37. Jeremiah 32:43אֹמְרִ֗ים · are saying
    And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’
  38. Jeremiah 33:1לֵאמֹֽר׃
    While Jeremiah was still confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD came to him a second time:
  39. Jeremiah 33:2אָמַ֥ר · says
    “Thus says the LORD who made the earth, the LORD who formed it and established it, the LORD is His name: