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.
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
Occurrences
5,308 total
- Genesis 35:2וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · toldSo Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
- Genesis 35:10וַיֹּֽאמֶר־ · saidAnd God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.
- Genesis 35:11וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · toldAnd God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
- Genesis 35:17וַתֹּ֨אמֶר · saidDuring her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”
- Genesis 37:6וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · He saidHe said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:
- Genesis 37:8וַיֹּ֤אמְרוּ · asked“Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.
- Genesis 37:9וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · he saidThen Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
- Genesis 37:10וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and saidHe told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
- Genesis 37:13וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said; וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · Joseph repliedIsrael said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
- Genesis 37:14וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · Then [Israel] toldThen Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
- Genesis 37:15לֵאמֹ֖ר…a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”
- Genesis 37:16וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · Joseph replied“I am looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”
- Genesis 37:17וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · answered; אֹֽמְרִ֔ים · say“They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
- Genesis 37:19וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ · they said“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.
- Genesis 37:20וְאָמַ֕רְנוּ · We can say“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”
- Genesis 37:21וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · he saidWhen Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he said.
- Genesis 37:22וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said this“Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.
- Genesis 37:26וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · saidThen Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
- Genesis 37:30וַיֹּאמַ֑ר · and said…returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”
- Genesis 37:32וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ · and saidThey sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe or not.”
- Genesis 37:33וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and saidHis father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
- Genesis 37:35וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · No, ” he saidAll his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
- Genesis 38:8וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · saidThen Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
- Genesis 38:11וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said; אָמַ֔ר · he thoughtThen Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
- Genesis 38:13לֵאמֹ֑רWhen Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
- Genesis 38:16וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and said; וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · she inquiredNot realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
- Genesis 38:17וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · [Judah] answered; וַתֹּ֕אמֶר · But she replied“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
- Genesis 38:18וַיֹּ֗אמֶר · he asked; וַתֹּ֗אמֶר · She answered“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
- Genesis 38:21לֵאמֹ֔ר; וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ · they answeredHe asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
- Genesis 38:22וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · and said; אָֽמְר֔וּ · saidSo Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”
- Genesis 38:23וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied“Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”
- Genesis 38:24לֵֽאמֹר֙; וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · repliedAbout three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
- Genesis 38:25לֵאמֹ֔ר · a message; וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · And she addedAs she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
- Genesis 38:26וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and saidJudah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
- Genesis 38:28לֵאמֹ֔ר · she announcedAnd as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she announced.
- Genesis 38:29וַתֹּ֕אמֶר · she saidBut when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.
- Genesis 39:7וַתֹּ֖אמֶר · and said…and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”
- Genesis 39:8וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · he saidBut he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.
- Genesis 39:12לֵאמֹ֖ר · and saidShe grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
- Genesis 39:14וַתֹּ֤אמֶר · she said…she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.