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
- Jeremiah 33:4אָמַ֤ר · saysFor this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says about the houses of this city and the palaces of the kings of Judah that have been torn down for defense against the siege ramps and the sword:
- Jeremiah 33:10אָמַ֣ר · says; אֹֽמְרִ֔ים · sayThis is what the LORD says: In this place you say is a wasteland without man or beast, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem that are deserted—inhabited by neither man nor beast—there will be heard again
- Jeremiah 33:11אֹמְרִ֡ים · saying; אָמַ֥ר · says…the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving devotion endures forever.’ For I will restore the land from captivity as in former times, says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 33:12אָמַר֮ · saysThis is what the LORD of Hosts says: In this desolate place, without man or beast, and in all its cities, there will once more be pastures for shepherds to rest their flocks.
- Jeremiah 33:13אָמַ֥ר · saysIn the cities of the hill country, the foothills, and the Negev, in the land of Benjamin and the cities surrounding Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, the flocks will again pass under the hands of the one who counts them, says the LORD.
- Jeremiah 33:17אָמַ֣ר · saysFor this is what the LORD says: David will never lack a man to sit on the throne of the house of Israel,
- Jeremiah 33:19לֵאמֽוֹר׃And the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
- Jeremiah 33:20אָמַ֣ר · says“This is what the LORD says: If you can break My covenant with the day and My covenant with the night, so that day and night cease to occupy their appointed time,
- Jeremiah 33:23לֵאמֹֽר׃Moreover, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
- Jeremiah 33:24לֵאמֹ֔ר“Have you not noticed what these people are saying: ‘The LORD has rejected the two families He had chosen’? So they despise My people and no longer regard them as a nation.
- Jeremiah 33:25אָמַ֣ר · saysThis is what the LORD says: If I have not established My covenant with the day and the night and the fixed order of heaven and earth,
- Jeremiah 34:1לֵאמֹֽר׃This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, all his army, all the earthly kingdoms under his control, and all the other nations were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding cities.
- Jeremiah 34:2אָמַ֤ר · told [Jeremiah]; וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ · and speak; וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and tell; אָמַ֣ר · saysThe LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.
- Jeremiah 34:4אָמַ֤ר · saysYet hear the word of the LORD, O Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the LORD says concerning you: You will not die by the sword;
- Jeremiah 34:12לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingThen the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying,
- Jeremiah 34:13אָמַ֥ר · says; לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your forefathers when I brought them out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery, saying:
- Jeremiah 34:17אָמַ֣ר · saysTherefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed Me; you have not proclaimed freedom, each man for his brother and for his neighbor. So now I proclaim freedom for you, declares the LORD—freedom to fall by sword, by plague, and by famine! I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
- Jeremiah 35:1לֵאמֹֽר׃This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the days of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah:
- Jeremiah 35:5וָאֹמַ֥ר · and I saidThen I set pitchers full of wine and some cups before the men of the house of the Rechabites, and I said to them, “Drink some wine.”
- Jeremiah 35:6וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ · they replied; לֵאמֹ֔ר“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.
- Jeremiah 35:11וַנֹּ֗אמֶר · we saidSo when Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched into the land, we said: ‘Come, let us go into Jerusalem to escape the armies of the Chaldeans and the Arameans.’ So we have remained in Jerusalem.”
- Jeremiah 35:12לֵאמֹֽר׃Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
- Jeremiah 35:13אָמַ֞ר · says; וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ · and tell“This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Go and tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem: ‘Will you not accept discipline and obey My words?’ declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 35:15לֵאמֹ֡ר · proclaimingAgain and again I have sent you all My servants the prophets, proclaiming: ‘Turn now, each of you, from your wicked ways, and correct your actions. Do not go after other gods to serve them. Live in the land that I have given to you and your fathers.’ But you have not inclined your ear or listened to Me.
- Jeremiah 35:17אָמַ֨ר · saysTherefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Behold, I will bring to Judah and to all the residents of Jerusalem all the disaster I have pronounced against them, because I have spoken to them but they have not obeyed, and I have called to them but they have not answered.’”
- Jeremiah 35:18אָמַ֣ר · said; אָמַ֞ר · saysThen Jeremiah said to the house of the Rechabites: “This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘Because you have obeyed the command of your forefather Jonadab and have kept all his commandments and have done all that he charged you to do,
- Jeremiah 35:19אָמַ֛ר · says…this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Jonadab son of Rechab will never fail to have a man to stand before Me.’”
- Jeremiah 36:1לֵאמֹֽר׃In the fourth year of Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
- Jeremiah 36:5לֵאמֹ֑רThen Jeremiah commanded Baruch, “I am restricted; I cannot enter the house of the LORD;
- Jeremiah 36:14לֵאמֹר֒ · sayingThen all the officials sent word to Baruch through Jehudi son of Nethaniah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Cushi, saying, “Bring the scroll that you read in the hearing of the people, and come here.” So Baruch son of Neriah took the scroll and went to them.
- Jeremiah 36:15וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ · they said“Please sit down,” they said, “and read it in our hearing.” So Baruch read it in their hearing.
- Jeremiah 36:16וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ · and saidWhen they had heard all these words, they turned to one another in fear and said to Baruch, “Surely we must report all these words to the king.”
- Jeremiah 36:17לֵאמֹ֑ר“Tell us now,” they asked Baruch, “how did you write all these words? Was it at Jeremiah’s dictation?”
- Jeremiah 36:18וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied“It was at his dictation,” Baruch replied. “He recited all these words to me and I wrote them in ink on the scroll.”
- Jeremiah 36:19וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ · saidThen the officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must hide yourselves and tell no one where you are.”
- Jeremiah 36:27לֵאמֹֽר׃After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
- Jeremiah 36:29תֹּאמַ֔ר · You are to proclaim; אָמַ֣ר · says; לֵאמֹ֔ר · and said; לֵאמֹ֗ר · thatYou are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’
- Jeremiah 36:30אָמַ֣ר · saysTherefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.