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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.

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

5,308 total
  1. Genesis 1:3וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
  2. Genesis 1:6וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”
  3. Genesis 1:9וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.
  4. Genesis 1:11וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.
  5. Genesis 1:14וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
  6. Genesis 1:20וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
  7. Genesis 1:22לֵאמֹ֑ר · [and] said
    Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
  8. Genesis 1:24וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
  9. Genesis 1:26וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
  10. Genesis 1:28וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
  11. Genesis 1:29וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
  12. Genesis 2:16לֵאמֹ֑ר
    And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,
  13. Genesis 2:18וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · also said
    The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”
  14. Genesis 2:23וַיֹּאמֶר֮ · said
    And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
  15. Genesis 3:1וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · And he said; אָמַ֣ר · say
    Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
  16. Genesis 3:2וַתֹּ֥אמֶר · answered
    The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
  17. Genesis 3:3אָמַ֣ר · has said
    …but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”
  18. Genesis 3:4וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · told
    “You will not surely die,” the serpent told the woman.
  19. Genesis 3:9וַיֹּ֥אמֶר
    But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
  20. Genesis 3:10וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · he replied
    “I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
  21. Genesis 3:11וַיֹּ֕אמֶר · asked [the LORD God]
    “Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
  22. Genesis 3:12וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · answered
    And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
  23. Genesis 3:13וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said; וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · replied
    Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
  24. Genesis 3:14וַיֹּאמֶר֩ · said
    So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
  25. Genesis 3:16אָמַ֗ר · He said
    To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
  26. Genesis 3:17אָמַ֗ר · He said; לֵאמֹ֔ר
    And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
  27. Genesis 3:22וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀ · said
    Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
  28. Genesis 4:1וַתֹּ֕אמֶר · she said
    And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man,” she said.
  29. Genesis 4:6וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    “Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?
  30. Genesis 4:8וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
  31. Genesis 4:9וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ · he answered
    And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
  32. Genesis 4:10וַיֹּ֖אמֶר · replied [the LORD]
    “What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
  33. Genesis 4:13וַיֹּ֥אמֶר · said
    But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
  34. Genesis 4:15וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · replied
    “Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
  35. Genesis 4:23וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
  36. Genesis 5:29לֵאמֹ֑ר · saying
    And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
  37. Genesis 6:3וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
  38. Genesis 6:7וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
  39. Genesis 6:13וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
  40. Genesis 7:1וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said
    Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
  41. Genesis 8:15לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Then God said to Noah,
  42. Genesis 8:21וַיֹּ֨אמֶר · said
    When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
  43. Genesis 9:1וַיֹּ֧אמֶר · and said
    And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
  44. Genesis 9:8וַיֹּ֤אמֶר · said; לֵאמֹֽר׃
    Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
  45. Genesis 9:12וַיֹּ֣אמֶר · said
    And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come: