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
- Ezekiel 12:23אֱמֹ֣ר · tell; אָמַר֮ · saysTherefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will put an end to this proverb, and in Israel they will no longer recite it.’ But say to them: ‘The days are at hand when every vision will be fulfilled.
- Ezekiel 12:26לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingFurthermore, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 12:27אֹֽמְרִ֔ים · is saying“Son of man, take note that the house of Israel is saying, ‘The vision that he sees is for many years from now; he prophesies about the distant future.’
- Ezekiel 12:28אֱמֹ֣ר · tell; אָמַר֙ · saysTherefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘None of My words will be delayed any longer. The message I speak will be fulfilled, declares the Lord GOD.’”
- Ezekiel 13:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingThen the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 13:2וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ · Tell“Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel who are now prophesying. Tell those who prophesy out of their own imagination: Hear the word of the LORD!
- Ezekiel 13:3אָמַר֙ · saysThis is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the foolish prophets who follow their own spirit yet have seen nothing.
- Ezekiel 13:6הָאֹֽמְרִים֙ · They claimThey see false visions and speak lying divinations. They claim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ when the LORD did not send them; yet they wait for the fulfillment of their message.
- Ezekiel 13:7אֲמַרְתֶּ֑ם · when you proclaim; וְאֹֽמְרִים֙ · and spokenHaven’t you seen a false vision and spoken a lying divination when you proclaim, ‘Thus declares the LORD,’ even though I have not spoken?
- Ezekiel 13:8אָמַר֙ · saysTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have uttered vain words and seen false visions, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 13:10לֵאמֹ֥ר · sayingBecause they have led My people astray, saying, ‘Peace,’ when there is no peace, and whitewashing any flimsy wall that is built,
- Ezekiel 13:11אֱמֹ֛ר · tell…tell those whitewashing the wall that it will fall. Rain will come in torrents, I will send hailstones plunging down, and a windstorm will burst forth.
- Ezekiel 13:12יֵאָמֵ֣ר · be askedSurely when the wall has fallen, you will not be asked, ‘Where is the whitewash with which you covered it?’
- Ezekiel 13:13אָמַר֙ · saysTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: In My wrath I will release a windstorm, and in My anger torrents of rain and hail will fall with destructive fury.
- Ezekiel 13:15וְאֹמַ֤ר · I will sayAnd after I have vented My wrath against the wall and against those who whitewashed it, I will say to you: ‘The wall is gone, and so are those who whitewashed it—
- Ezekiel 13:18וְאָמַרְתָּ֞ · and tell them that; אָמַ֣ר׀ · says…and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Woe to the women who sew magic charms on their wrists and make veils for the heads of people of every height, in order to ensnare their souls. Will you ensnare the souls of My people but preserve your own?
- Ezekiel 13:20אָמַ֣ר׀ · saysTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: See, I am against the magic charms with which you ensnare souls like birds, and I will tear them from your arms. So I will free the souls you have ensnared like birds.
- Ezekiel 14:2לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingAnd the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 14:4וְאָמַרְתָּ֨ · and tell; אָמַ֣ר׀ · saysTherefore speak to them and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When any Israelite sets up idols in his heart and puts a wicked stumbling block before his face, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will answer him according to his great idolatry,
- Ezekiel 14:6אֱמֹ֣ר׀ · tell; אָמַר֙ · saysTherefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Repent and turn away from your idols; turn your faces away from all your abominations.
- Ezekiel 14:12לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingAnd the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 14:17וְאָמַרְתִּ֗י · and sayOr if I bring a sword against that land and say, ‘Let a sword pass through it,’ so that I cut off from it both man and beast,
- Ezekiel 14:21אָמַ֜ר · saysFor this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘How much worse will it be when I send against Jerusalem My four dire judgments—sword, famine, wild beasts, and plague—in order to cut off from it both man and beast?
- Ezekiel 15:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingThen the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 15:6אָמַר֙ · saysTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Like the wood of the vine among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so I will give up the people of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 16:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingAgain the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 16:3וְאָמַרְתָּ֞ · and tell [her that]; אָמַ֨ר · says…and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says to Jerusalem: Your origin and your birth were in the land of the Canaanites. Your father was an Amorite and your mother a Hittite.
- Ezekiel 16:6וָאֹ֤מַר · I said; וָאֹ֥מַר · I saidThen I passed by and saw you wallowing in your blood, and as you lay there in your blood I said to you, ‘Live!’ There I said to you, ‘Live!’
- Ezekiel 16:36אָמַ֞ר · saysThis is what the Lord GOD says: Because you poured out your wealth and exposed your nakedness in your promiscuity with your lovers and with all your detestable idols, and because of the blood of your children which you gave to them,
- Ezekiel 16:44לֵאמֹ֑רBehold, all who speak in proverbs will quote this proverb about you: ‘Like mother, like daughter.’
- Ezekiel 16:59אָמַר֙ · saysFor this is what the Lord GOD says: I will deal with you according to your deeds, since you have despised the oath by breaking the covenant.
- Ezekiel 17:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingNow the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 17:3וְאָמַרְתָּ֞ · and tell them that; אָמַ֣ר׀ · says…and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘A great eagle with great wings and long pinions, full of feathers of many colors, came to Lebanon and took away the top of the cedar.
- Ezekiel 17:9אֱמֹ֗ר · So you are to tell them; אָמַ֛ר · saysSo you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Will it flourish? Will it not be uprooted and stripped of its fruit so that it shrivels? All its foliage will wither! It will not take a strong arm or many people to pull it up by its roots.
- Ezekiel 17:11לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingThen the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 17:12אֱמָר־ · say to; אֱמֹ֗ר · Tell [them]“Now say to this rebellious house: ‘Do you not know what these things mean?’ Tell them, ‘Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, carried off its king and officials, and brought them back with him to Babylon.
- Ezekiel 17:19אָמַ֨ר · saysTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, I will bring down upon his head My oath that he despised and My covenant that he broke.
- Ezekiel 17:22אָמַר֙ · saysThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take a shoot from the lofty top of the cedar, and I will set it out. I will pluck a tender sprig from its topmost shoots, and I will plant it on a high and lofty mountain.
- Ezekiel 18:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingThen the word of the LORD came to me, saying,