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 18:2לֵאמֹ֑ר“What do you people mean by quoting this proverb about the land of Israel: ‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the teeth of the children are set on edge’?
- Ezekiel 18:19וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם · Yet you may askYet you may ask, ‘Why shouldn’t the son bear the iniquity of his father?’ Since the son has done what is just and right, carefully observing all My statutes, he will surely live.
- Ezekiel 18:25וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם · Yet you sayYet you say, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Hear now, O house of Israel: Is it My way that is unjust? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
- Ezekiel 18:29וְאָֽמְרוּ֙ · saysYet the house of Israel says, ‘The way of the Lord is not just.’ Are My ways unjust, O house of Israel? Is it not your ways that are unjust?
- Ezekiel 19:2וְאָמַרְתָּ֗ · and say…and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
- Ezekiel 20:2לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingThen the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 20:3וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and tell; אָמַר֙ · says“Son of man, speak to the elders of Israel and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: Have you come to inquire of Me? As surely as I live, I will not be consulted by you, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 20:5וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and tell; אָמַר֮ · says; לֵאמֹ֔ר · I said…and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I chose Israel, I swore an oath to the descendants of the house of Jacob and made Myself known to them in the land of Egypt. With an uplifted hand I said to them, ‘I am the LORD your God.’
- Ezekiel 20:7וָאֹמַ֣ר · And I saidAnd I said to them: ‘Each of you must throw away the abominations before his eyes, and you must not defile yourselves with the idols of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.’
- Ezekiel 20:8וָאֹמַ֞ר · So I resolvedBut they rebelled against Me and refused to listen. None of them cast away the abominations before their eyes, and they did not forsake the idols of Egypt. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 20:13וָאֹמַ֞ר · Then I resolvedYet the house of Israel rebelled against Me in the wilderness. They did not follow My statutes and they rejected My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they utterly profaned My Sabbaths. Then I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and put an end to them in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 20:18וָאֹמַ֤ר · I saidIn the wilderness I said to their children: ‘Do not walk in the statutes of your fathers or keep their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.
- Ezekiel 20:21וָאֹמַ֞ר · So I resolvedBut the children rebelled against Me. They did not walk in My statutes or carefully observe My ordinances—though the man who does these things will live by them—and they profaned My Sabbaths. So I resolved to pour out My wrath upon them and vent My anger against them in the wilderness.
- Ezekiel 20:27וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and tell them that; אָמַ֖ר · saysTherefore, son of man, speak to the house of Israel, and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: In this way also your fathers blasphemed Me by their unfaithfulness against Me.
- Ezekiel 20:29וָאֹמַ֣ר · So I asked themSo I asked them: ‘What is this high place to which you go?’ (And to this day it is called Bamah.)
- Ezekiel 20:30אֱמֹ֣ר׀ · tell; אָמַר֙ · saysTherefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: Will you defile yourselves the way your fathers did, prostituting yourselves with their abominations?
- Ezekiel 20:32אֹמְרִ֗ים · sayWhen you say, ‘Let us be like the nations, like the peoples of the lands, serving wood and stone,’ what you have in mind will never come to pass.
- Ezekiel 20:39אָמַ֣ר׀ · saysAnd as for you, O house of Israel, this is what the Lord GOD says: Go and serve your idols, every one of you. But afterward, you will surely listen to Me, and you will no longer defile My holy name with your gifts and idols.
- Ezekiel 20:45לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingNow the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 20:47וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ · Say; אָמַ֣ר · saysSay to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.
- Ezekiel 20:49וָאֹמַ֕ר · Then I said; אֹמְרִ֣ים · are sayingThen I said, “Ah, Lord GOD, they are saying of me, ‘Is he not just telling parables?’”
- Ezekiel 21:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingAnd the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 21:3וְאָמַרְתָּ֞ · and tell; אָמַ֣ר · says…and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
- Ezekiel 21:7יֹאמְר֣וּ · they ask; וְאָמַרְתָּ֡ · you are to sayAnd when they ask, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you are to say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt, and every hand will go limp. Every spirit will faint, and every knee will turn to water.’ Yes, it is coming and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Ezekiel 21:8לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingAgain the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 21:9וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ · says; אָמַ֣ר · and tell them; אֱמֹ֕ר“Son of man, prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord says: ‘A sword, a sword, sharpened and polished—
- Ezekiel 21:18לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingThen the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 21:24אָמַר֮ · saysTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have drawn attention to your guilt, exposing your transgressions, so that your sins are revealed in all your deeds—because you have come to remembrance—you shall be taken in hand.
- Ezekiel 21:26אָמַר֙ · saysThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Remove the turban, and take off the crown. Things will not remain as they are: Exalt the lowly and bring low the exalted.
- Ezekiel 21:28וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ · and declare; אָמַר֙ · says; וְאָמַרְתָּ֗Now prophesy, son of man, and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says concerning the Ammonites and their contempt: ‘A sword! A sword is drawn for slaughter, polished to consume, to flash like lightning—
- Ezekiel 22:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingThen the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 22:3וְאָמַרְתָּ֗ · and tell her; אָמַר֙ · says…and tell her that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O city who brings her own doom by shedding blood within her walls and making idols to defile herself,
- Ezekiel 22:17לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingThen the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 22:19אָמַר֙ · saysTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because all of you have become dross, behold, I will gather you into Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 22:23לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingAnd the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 22:24אֱמָר־ · say“Son of man, say to her, ‘In the day of indignation, you are a land that has not been cleansed, upon which no rain has fallen.’