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 22:28אֹמְרִ֗ים · saying; אָמַר֙ · saysHer prophets whitewash these deeds by false visions and lying divinations, saying, ‘This is what the Lord GOD says,’ when the LORD has not spoken.
- Ezekiel 23:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingAgain the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 23:22אָמַר֮ · saysTherefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side—
- Ezekiel 23:28אָמַר֙ · saysFor this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Surely I will deliver you into the hands of those you hate, from whom you turned away in disgust.
- Ezekiel 23:32אָמַר֙ · saysThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much.
- Ezekiel 23:35אָמַר֙ · saysTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you have forgotten Me and have cast Me behind your back, you must bear the consequences of your indecency and prostitution.’”
- Ezekiel 23:36וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · saidThen the LORD said to me: “Son of man, will you pass judgment against Oholah and Oholibah? Then declare to them their abominations.
- Ezekiel 23:43וָאֹמַ֕ר · Then I saidThen I said of her who had grown old in adulteries: ‘Now let them use her as a prostitute, for that is all she is!’
- Ezekiel 23:46אָמַ֖ר · saysThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Bring a mob against them and consign them to terror and plunder.
- Ezekiel 24:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingIn the ninth year, on the tenth day of the tenth month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 24:3וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and tell; אָמַ֖ר · saysNow speak a parable to this rebellious house and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Put the pot on the fire; put it on and pour in the water.
- Ezekiel 24:6אָמַ֣ר׀ · saysTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed, to the pot now rusted, whose rust will not come off! Empty it piece by piece; cast no lots for its contents.
- Ezekiel 24:9אָמַר֙ · saysYes, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the city of bloodshed! I, too, will pile the kindling high.
- Ezekiel 24:15לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingThen the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 24:19וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ · asked meThen the people asked me, “Won’t you tell us what these things you are doing mean to us?”
- Ezekiel 24:20וָאֹמַ֖ר · So I answered; לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingSo I answered them, “The word of the LORD came to me, saying:
- Ezekiel 24:21אֱמֹ֣ר׀ · Tell; אָמַר֮ · saysTell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I am about to desecrate My sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and the delight of your soul. And the sons and daughters you left behind will fall by the sword.’
- Ezekiel 25:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingThen the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 25:3וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ · Tell; אָמַ֣ר · says; אָמְרֵ֨ךְ · you exclaimedTell the Ammonites to hear the word of the Lord GOD, for this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you exclaimed, “Aha!” when My sanctuary was profaned, when the land of Israel was laid waste, and when the house of Judah went into exile,
- Ezekiel 25:6אָמַר֙ · saysFor this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you clapped your hands and stomped your feet and rejoiced over the land of Israel with a heart full of contempt,
- Ezekiel 25:8אָמַ֖ר · says; אֲמֹ֤ר · saidThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Moab and Seir said, “Look, the house of Judah is like all the other nations,”
- Ezekiel 25:12אָמַר֙ · saysThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because Edom acted vengefully against the house of Judah, and in so doing incurred grievous guilt,
- Ezekiel 25:13אָמַר֙ · says…therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
- Ezekiel 25:15אָמַר֙ · saysThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because the Philistines acted in vengeance, taking vengeance with malice of soul to destroy Judah with ancient hostility,
- Ezekiel 25:16אָמַר֙ · says…therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.
- Ezekiel 26:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingIn the eleventh month of the twelfth year, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 26:2אָ֨מְרָה · has said“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’
- Ezekiel 26:3אָמַר֙ · says…therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, O Tyre, I am against you, and I will raise up many nations against you, as the sea brings up its waves.
- Ezekiel 26:7אָמַר֙ · saysFor this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I will bring against Tyre from the north Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, king of kings, with horses and chariots, with cavalry and a great company of troops.
- Ezekiel 26:15אָמַ֛ר · saysThis is what the Lord GOD says to Tyre: ‘Will not the coastlands quake at the sound of your downfall, when the wounded groan at the slaughter in your midst?
- Ezekiel 26:17וְאָ֣מְרוּ · sayingThen they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men—she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!
- Ezekiel 26:19אָמַר֙ · saysFor this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘When I make you a desolate city like other deserted cities, and when I raise up the deep against you so that the mighty waters cover you,
- Ezekiel 27:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingThen the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 27:3וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · Tell; אָמַר֙ · says; אָמַ֔רְתְּ · have saidTell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
- Ezekiel 28:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · sayingAnd the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
- Ezekiel 28:2אֱמֹר֩ · tell; אָמַ֣ר׀ · says; וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · and you have said“Son of man, tell the ruler of Tyre that this is what the Lord GOD says: Your heart is proud, and you have said, ‘I am a god; I sit in the seat of gods in the heart of the sea.’ Yet you are a man and not a god, though you have regarded your heart as that of a god.
- Ezekiel 28:6אָמַ֖ר · saysTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you regard your heart as the heart of a god,
- Ezekiel 28:9הֶאָמֹ֤ר · Will you still say; תֹּאמַר֙Will you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.