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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. Ezekiel 33:25אָמַ֣ר׀ · says
    Therefore tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You eat meat with the blood in it, lift up your eyes to your idols, and shed blood. Should you then possess the land?
  2. Ezekiel 33:27תֹאמַ֨ר · Tell; אָמַ֨ר · says
    Tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘As surely as I live, those in the ruins will fall by the sword, those in the open field I will give to be devoured by wild animals, and those in the strongholds and caves will die by plague.
  3. Ezekiel 33:30לֵאמֹ֔ר · saying
    As for you, son of man, your people are talking about you near the city walls and in the doorways of their houses. One speaks to another, each saying to his brother, ‘Come and hear the message that has come from the LORD!’
  4. Ezekiel 34:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  5. Ezekiel 34:2וְאָמַרְתָּ֩ · and tell; אָמַ֣ר׀ · says
    “Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel. Prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Woe to the shepherds of Israel, who only feed themselves! Should not the shepherds feed their flock?
  6. Ezekiel 34:10אָמַ֞ר · says
    This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand from them My flock and remove them from tending the flock, so that they can no longer feed themselves. For I will deliver My flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.’
  7. Ezekiel 34:11אָמַ֖ר · says
    For this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I Myself will search for My flock and seek them out.
  8. Ezekiel 34:17אָמַ֖ר · says
    This is what the Lord GOD says to you, My flock: ‘I will judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the goats.
  9. Ezekiel 34:20אָמַ֛ר · says
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
  10. Ezekiel 35:1לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Moreover, the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  11. Ezekiel 35:3וְאָמַ֣רְתָּ · and declare; אָמַר֙ · says
    …and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.
  12. Ezekiel 35:10אֲ֠מָרְךָ · you have said
    Because you have said, ‘These two nations and countries will be ours, and we will possess them,’ even though the LORD was there,
  13. Ezekiel 35:12אָמַ֛רְתָּ · you uttered; לֵאמֹ֣ר׀ · when you said
    Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’
  14. Ezekiel 35:14אָמַ֖ר · says
    This is what the Lord GOD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.
  15. Ezekiel 36:1וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔ · and say
    “And you, son of man, prophesy to the mountains of Israel and say: O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the LORD.
  16. Ezekiel 36:2אָמַר֙ · says; אָמַ֧ר · has said
    This is what the Lord GOD says: Because the enemy has said of you, ‘Aha! The ancient heights have become our possession,’
  17. Ezekiel 36:3וְאָמַרְתָּ֔ · and declare; אָמַ֖ר · says
    …therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
  18. Ezekiel 36:4אָמַ֣ר · says
    …therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
  19. Ezekiel 36:5אָמַר֮ · says
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.
  20. Ezekiel 36:6וְאָמַרְתָּ֡ · and tell; אָמַ֣ר׀ · says
    Therefore, prophesy concerning the land of Israel and tell the mountains and hills, the ravines and valleys, that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I have spoken in My burning zeal because you have endured the reproach of the nations.
  21. Ezekiel 36:7אָמַר֙ · says
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I have sworn with an uplifted hand that surely the nations around you will endure reproach of their own.
  22. Ezekiel 36:13אָמַר֙ · says; אֹמְרִ֣ים · people say
    For this is what the Lord GOD says: Because people say to you, ‘You devour men and deprive your nation of its children,’
  23. Ezekiel 36:16לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
  24. Ezekiel 36:20בֶּאֱמֹ֤ר · because it was said
    And wherever they went among the nations, they profaned My holy name, because it was said of them, ‘These are the people of the LORD, yet they had to leave His land.’
  25. Ezekiel 36:22אֱמֹ֣ר · tell; אָמַר֙ · says
    Therefore tell the house of Israel that this is what the Lord GOD says: It is not for your sake that I will act, O house of Israel, but for My holy name, which you profaned among the nations to which you went.
  26. Ezekiel 36:33אָמַר֙ · says
    This is what the Lord GOD says: On the day I cleanse you from all your iniquities, I will cause the cities to be resettled and the ruins to be rebuilt.
  27. Ezekiel 36:35וְאָמְר֗וּ · Then they will say
    Then they will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden. The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and destroyed are now fortified and inhabited.’
  28. Ezekiel 36:37אָמַר֙ · says
    This is what the Lord GOD says: Once again I will hear the plea of the house of Israel and do for them this: I will multiply their people like a flock.
  29. Ezekiel 37:3וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · Then He asked; וָאֹמַ֕ר · I replied
    Then He asked me, “Son of man, can these bones come to life?” “O Lord GOD,” I replied, “only You know.”
  30. Ezekiel 37:4וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · And He said; וְאָמַרְתָּ֣ · and tell
    And He said to me, “Prophesy concerning these bones and tell them, ‘Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!
  31. Ezekiel 37:5אָמַר֙ · says
    This is what the Lord GOD says to these bones: I will cause breath to enter you, and you will come to life.
  32. Ezekiel 37:9וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · Then He said; וְאָמַרְתָּ֨ · and tell; אָמַ֣ר׀ · says
    Then He said to me, “Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and tell the breath that this is what the Lord GOD says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, so that they may live!”
  33. Ezekiel 37:11וַיֹּאמֶר֮ · Then He said; אֹמְרִ֗ים · are saying
    Then He said to me, “Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. Look, they are saying, ‘Our bones are dried up, and our hope has perished; we are cut off.’
  34. Ezekiel 37:12וְאָמַרְתָּ֜ · and tell; אָמַר֮ · says
    Therefore prophesy and tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘O My people, I will open your graves and bring you up from them, and I will bring you back to the land of Israel.
  35. Ezekiel 37:15לֵאמֹֽר׃ · saying
    Again the word of the LORD came to me, saying,