אָמַר

a.mar

Hebrew H0559 Verb 5,308 occurrences in 4,337 verses
אָמַר to say

1. to say, speak, utter

a. (Qal) to say, to answer, to say in one's heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend

b. (Niphal) to be told, to be said, to be called

c. (Hithpael) to boast, to act proudly

d. (Hiphil) to avow, to avouch

Aramaic equivalent: a.mar (אֲמַר "to say" H0560)

Lexicon: STEPBible Tyndale House Brief Lexicons (TBESH / TBESG) (CC BY 4.0)

Translation

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Concordance 4,337 verses

  1. Exodus 1:19 וַתֹּאמַ֤רְןָ

    The midwives answered Pharaoh, “The Hebrew women are not like the Egyptian women, for they are vigorous and give birth before a midwife arrives.”

  2. Exodus 1:22 לֵאמֹ֑ר

    Then Pharaoh commanded all his people: “Every son born to the Hebrews you must throw into the Nile, but every daughter you may allow to live.”

  3. Exodus 2:6 וַתֹּ֕אמֶר

    When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”

  4. Exodus 2:7 וַתֹּ֣אמֶר

    Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

  5. Exodus 2:8 וַתֹּֽאמֶר־

    “Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.

  6. Exodus 2:9 וַתֹּ֧אמֶר

    Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.

  7. Exodus 2:10 וַתֹּ֕אמֶר

    When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”

  8. Exodus 2:13 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    The next day Moses went out and saw two Hebrews fighting. He asked the one in the wrong, “Why are you attacking your companion?”

  9. Exodus 2:14 וַ֠יֹּאמֶראֹמֵ֔רוַיֹּאמַ֔ר

    But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”

  10. Exodus 2:18 וַיֹּ֕אמֶר

    When the daughters returned to their father Reuel, he asked them, “Why have you returned so early today?”

  11. Exodus 2:19 וַתֹּאמַ֕רְןָ

    “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,” they replied. “He even drew water for us and watered the flock.”

  12. Exodus 2:20 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר

    “So where is he?” their father asked. “Why did you leave the man behind? Invite him to have something to eat.”

  13. Exodus 2:22 אָמַ֔ר

    And she gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”

  14. Exodus 3:3 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    So Moses thought, “I must go over and see this marvelous sight. Why is the bush not burning up?”

  15. Exodus 3:4 וַיֹּ֛אמֶרוַיֹּ֥אמֶר

    When the LORD saw that he had gone over to look, God called out to him from within the bush, “Moses, Moses!” “Here I am,” he answered.

  16. Exodus 3:5 וַיֹּ֖אמֶר

    “Do not come any closer,” God said. “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy ground.”

  17. Exodus 3:6 וַיֹּ֗אמֶר

    Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

  18. Exodus 3:7 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

  19. Exodus 3:11 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר

    But Moses asked God, “Who am I, that I should go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?”

  20. Exodus 3:12 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    “I will surely be with you,” God said, “and this will be the sign to you that I have sent you: When you have brought the people out of Egypt, all of you will worship God on this mountain.”

  21. Exodus 3:13 וַיֹּ֨אמֶרוְאָמַרְתִּ֣יוְאָֽמְרוּ־אֹמַ֖ר

    Then Moses asked God, “Suppose I go to the Israelites and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is His name?’ What should I tell them?”

  22. Exodus 3:14 וַיֹּ֤אמֶרוַיֹּ֗אמֶרתֹאמַר֙

    God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM. This is what you are to say to the Israelites: ‘I AM has sent me to you.’”

  23. Exodus 3:15 וַיֹּאמֶר֩תֹאמַר֮

    God also told Moses, “Say to the Israelites, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has sent me to you.’ This is My name forever, and this is how I am to be remembered in every generation.

  24. Exodus 3:16 וְאָמַרְתָּ֤לֵאמֹ֑ר

    Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.

  25. Exodus 3:17 וָאֹמַ֗ר

    And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

  26. Exodus 3:18 וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֤ם

    The elders of Israel will listen to what you say, and you must go with them to the king of Egypt and tell him, ‘The LORD, the God of the Hebrews, has met with us. Now please let us take a three-day journey into the wilderness, so that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.’

  27. Exodus 4:1 וַיֹּ֔אמֶריֹֽאמְר֔וּ

    Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’”

  28. Exodus 4:2 וַיֹּ֧אמֶרוַיֹּ֖אמֶר

    And the LORD asked him, “What is that in your hand?” “A staff,” he replied.

  29. Exodus 4:3 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    “Throw it on the ground,” said the LORD. So Moses threw it on the ground, and it became a snake, and he ran from it.

  30. Exodus 4:4 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר

    “Stretch out your hand and grab it by the tail,” the LORD said to Moses, who reached out his hand and caught the snake, and it turned back into a staff in his hand.

  31. Exodus 4:6 וַיֹּאמֶר֩

    Furthermore, the LORD said to Moses, “Put your hand inside your cloak.” So he put his hand inside his cloak, and when he took it out, his hand was leprous, white as snow.

  32. Exodus 4:7 וַיֹּ֗אמֶר

    “Put your hand back inside your cloak,” said the LORD. So Moses put his hand back inside his cloak, and when he took it out, it was restored, like the rest of his skin.

  33. Exodus 4:10 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר

    “Please, Lord,” Moses replied, “I have never been eloquent, neither in the past nor since You have spoken to Your servant, for I am slow of speech and tongue.”

  34. Exodus 4:11 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר

    And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

  35. Exodus 4:13 וַיֹּ֖אמֶר

    But Moses replied, “Please, Lord, send someone else.”

  36. Exodus 4:14 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    Then the anger of the LORD burned against Moses, and He said, “Is not Aaron the Levite your brother? I know that he can speak well, and he is now on his way to meet you. When he sees you, he will be glad in his heart.

  37. Exodus 4:18 וַיֹּ֤אמֶרוַיֹּ֧אמֶר

    Then Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him, “Please let me return to my brothers in Egypt to see if they are still alive.” “Go in peace,” Jethro replied.

  38. Exodus 4:19 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר

    Now the LORD had said to Moses in Midian, “Go back to Egypt, for all the men who sought to kill you are dead.”

  39. Exodus 4:21 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    The LORD instructed Moses, “When you go back to Egypt, see that you perform before Pharaoh all the wonders that I have put within your power. But I will harden his heart so that he will not let the people go.

  40. Exodus 4:22 וְאָמַרְתָּ֖אָמַ֣ר

    Then tell Pharaoh that this is what the LORD says: ‘Israel is My firstborn son,

  41. Exodus 4:23 וָאֹמַ֣ר

    and I told you to let My son go so that he may worship Me. But since you have refused to let him go, behold, I will kill your firstborn son!’”

  42. Exodus 4:25 וַתֹּ֕אמֶר

    But Zipporah took a flint knife, cut off her son’s foreskin, and touched it to Moses’ feet. “Surely you are a bridegroom of blood to me,” she said.

  43. Exodus 4:26 אָֽמְרָ֔ה

    So the LORD let him alone. (When she said, “bridegroom of blood,” she was referring to the circumcision.)

  44. Exodus 4:27 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר

    Meanwhile, the LORD had said to Aaron, “Go and meet Moses in the wilderness.” So he went and met Moses at the mountain of God and kissed him.

  45. Exodus 5:1 וַיֹּאמְר֖וּאָמַ֤ר

    After that, Moses and Aaron went to Pharaoh and said, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘Let My people go, so that they may hold a feast to Me in the wilderness.’”

  46. Exodus 5:2 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    But Pharaoh replied, “Who is the LORD that I should obey His voice and let Israel go? I do not know the LORD, and I will not let Israel go.”

  47. Exodus 5:3 וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ

    “The God of the Hebrews has met with us,” they answered. “Please let us go on a three-day journey into the wilderness to sacrifice to the LORD our God, or He may strike us with plagues or with the sword.”

  48. Exodus 5:4 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר

    But the king of Egypt said to them, “Moses and Aaron, why do you draw the people away from their work? Get back to your labor!”

  49. Exodus 5:5 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    Pharaoh also said, “Look, the people of the land are now numerous, and you would be stopping them from their labor.”

  50. Exodus 5:6 לֵאמֹֽר׃

    That same day Pharaoh commanded the taskmasters of the people and their foremen:

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