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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 37:3לֵאמֹ֑ר · with the message
    Yet King Zedekiah sent Jehucal son of Shelemiah and Zephaniah the priest, the son of Maaseiah, to Jeremiah the prophet with the message, “Please pray to the LORD our God for us!”
  2. Jeremiah 37:6לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet:
  3. Jeremiah 37:7אָמַ֤ר · says; תֹֽאמְרוּ֙ · you are to tell
    “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to help you, will go back to its own land of Egypt.
  4. Jeremiah 37:9אָמַ֣ר · says; לֵאמֹ֔ר · by saying
    This is what the LORD says: Do not deceive yourselves by saying, ‘The Chaldeans will go away for good,’ for they will not!
  5. Jeremiah 37:13לֵאמֹ֔ר · and said
    But when he reached the Gate of Benjamin, the captain of the guard, whose name was Irijah son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, seized him and said, “You are deserting to the Chaldeans!”
  6. Jeremiah 37:14וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    “That is a lie,” Jeremiah replied. “I am not deserting to the Chaldeans!” But Irijah would not listen to him; instead, he arrested Jeremiah and took him to the officials.
  7. Jeremiah 37:17וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · replied; וַיֹּ֤אמֶר; וַיֹּ֕אמֶר
    Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there a word from the LORD?” “There is,” Jeremiah replied. “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
  8. Jeremiah 37:18וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · asked
    Then Jeremiah asked King Zedekiah, “How have I sinned against you or your servants or these people, that you have put me in prison?
  9. Jeremiah 37:19לֵאמֹ֑ר · claiming
    Where are your prophets who prophesied to you, claiming, ‘The king of Babylon will not come against you or this land’?
  10. Jeremiah 38:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ס
    Now Shephatiah son of Mattan, Gedaliah son of Pashhur, Jucal son of Shelemiah, and Pashhur son of Malchijah heard that Jeremiah had been telling all the people:
  11. Jeremiah 38:2אָמַ֣ר · says
    “This is what the LORD says: Whoever stays in this city will die by sword and famine and plague, but whoever surrenders to the Chaldeans will live; he will retain his life like a spoil of war, and he will live.
  12. Jeremiah 38:3אָמַ֣ר · says
    This is what the LORD says: This city will surely be delivered into the hands of the army of the king of Babylon, and he will capture it.”
  13. Jeremiah 38:4וַיֹּאמְר֨וּ · said
    Then the officials said to the king, “This man ought to die, for he is discouraging the warriors who remain in this city, as well as all the people, by speaking such words to them; this man is not seeking the well-being of these people, but their ruin.”
  14. Jeremiah 38:5וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · replied
    “Here he is,” replied King Zedekiah. “He is in your hands, since the king can do nothing to stop you.”
  15. Jeremiah 38:8לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Ebed-melech went out from the king’s palace and said to the king,
  16. Jeremiah 38:10לֵאמֹ֑ר
    So the king commanded Ebed-melech the Cushite, “Take thirty men from here with you and pull Jeremiah the prophet out of the cistern before he dies.”
  17. Jeremiah 38:12וַיֹּ֡אמֶר · cried out
    Ebed-melech the Cushite cried out to Jeremiah, “Put these worn-out rags and clothes under your arms to pad the ropes.” Jeremiah did so,
  18. Jeremiah 38:14וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah the prophet and received him at the third entrance to the house of the LORD. “I am going to ask you something,” said the king to Jeremiah. “Do not hide anything from me.”
  19. Jeremiah 38:15וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · replied
    “If I tell you,” Jeremiah replied, “you will surely put me to death. And even if I give you advice, you will not listen to me.”
  20. Jeremiah 38:16לֵאמֹ֑ר
    But King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you, nor will I deliver you into the hands of these men who are seeking your life.”
  21. Jeremiah 38:17וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said; אָמַ֣ר · says
    Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.
  22. Jeremiah 38:19וַיֹּ֛אמֶר · said
    But King Zedekiah said to Jeremiah, “I am afraid of the Jews who have deserted to the Chaldeans, for the Chaldeans may deliver me into their hands to abuse me.”
  23. Jeremiah 38:20וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · replied
    “They will not hand you over,” Jeremiah replied. “Obey the voice of the LORD in what I am telling you, that it may go well with you and you may live.
  24. Jeremiah 38:22אֹמְר֗וֹת · will say
    All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you—those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’
  25. Jeremiah 38:24וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · warned
    Then Zedekiah warned Jeremiah, “Do not let anyone know about this conversation, or you will die.
  26. Jeremiah 38:25וְֽאָמְר֪וּ · and demand
    If the officials hear that I have spoken with you, and they come and demand of you, ‘Tell us what you said to the king and what he said to you; do not hide it from us, or we will kill you,’
  27. Jeremiah 38:26וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · then tell them
    …then tell them, ‘I was presenting to the king my petition that he not return me to the house of Jonathan to die there.’”
  28. Jeremiah 39:11לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Now Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had given orders about Jeremiah through Nebuzaradan captain of the guard, saying,
  29. Jeremiah 39:15לֵאמֹֽר׃
    And while Jeremiah had been confined in the courtyard of the guard, the word of the LORD had come to him:
  30. Jeremiah 39:16וְאָמַרְתָּ֡ · and tell; לֵאמֹ֗ר · says; אָמַ֞ר
    “Go and tell Ebed-melech the Cushite that this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘I am about to fulfill My words against this city for harm and not for good, and on that day they will be fulfilled before your eyes.
  31. Jeremiah 40:2וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · and said
    The captain of the guard found Jeremiah and said to him, “The LORD your God decreed this disaster on this place,
  32. Jeremiah 40:9לֵאמֹ֔ר · assuring them
    Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.
  33. Jeremiah 40:14וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ · and said to him
    …and said to him, “Are you aware that Baalis king of the Ammonites has sent Ishmael son of Nethaniah to take your life?” But Gedaliah son of Ahikam did not believe them.
  34. Jeremiah 40:15אָמַ֣ר · spoke; לֵאמֹ֗ר · he said
    Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”
  35. Jeremiah 40:16וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    But Gedaliah son of Ahikam said to Johanan son of Kareah, “Do not do such a thing! What you are saying about Ishmael is a lie.”
  36. Jeremiah 41:6וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · he said
    And Ishmael son of Nethaniah went out from Mizpah to meet them, weeping as he went. When Ishmael encountered the men, he said, “Come to Gedaliah son of Ahikam.”
  37. Jeremiah 41:8וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ · said
    But ten of the men among them said to Ishmael, “Do not kill us, for we have hidden treasure in the field—wheat, barley, oil, and honey!” So he refrained from killing them with the others.
  38. Jeremiah 42:2וַיֹּאמְר֞וּ · and said
    Jeremiah the prophet and said, “May our petition come before you; pray to the LORD your God on behalf of this entire remnant. For few of us remain of the many, as you can see with your own eyes.
  39. Jeremiah 42:4וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · replied
    “I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will surely pray to the LORD your God as you request, and I will tell you everything that the LORD answers. I will not withhold a word from you.”
  40. Jeremiah 42:5אָמְר֣וּ · said
    Then they said to Jeremiah, “May the LORD be a true and faithful witness against us if we do not act upon every word that the LORD your God sends you to tell us.
  41. Jeremiah 42:9וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · [Jeremiah] told; אָמַ֥ר · says
    Jeremiah told them, “Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel, to whom you sent me to present your petition: