אָמַר
a.mar
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)
Translated as (BSB)
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- Numbers 10:1 לֵּאמֹֽר׃
Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 10:29 וַיֹּ֣אמֶראָמַ֣ר
Then Moses said to Hobab, the son of Moses’ father-in-law Reuel the Midianite, “We are setting out for the place of which the LORD said: ‘I will give it to you.’ Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things to Israel.”
- Numbers 10:30 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר
“I will not go,” Hobab replied. “Instead, I am going back to my own land and my own people.”
- Numbers 10:31 וַיֹּ֕אמֶר
“Please do not leave us,” Moses said, “since you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you can serve as our eyes.
- Numbers 10:35 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
Whenever the ark set out, Moses would say, “Rise up, O LORD! May Your enemies be scattered; may those who hate You flee before You.”
- Numbers 10:36 יֹאמַ֑ר
And when it came to rest, he would say: “Return, O LORD, to the countless thousands of Israel.”
- Numbers 11:4 וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ
Meanwhile, the rabble among them had a strong craving for other food, and again the Israelites wept and said, “Who will feed us meat?
- Numbers 11:11 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?
- Numbers 11:12 תֹאמַ֨ר
Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?
- Numbers 11:13 לֵאמֹ֔ר
Where can I get meat for all these people? For they keep crying out to me, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
- Numbers 11:16 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
Then the LORD said to Moses, “Bring Me seventy of the elders of Israel known to you as leaders and officers of the people. Bring them to the Tent of Meeting and have them stand there with you.
- Numbers 11:18 תֹּאמַ֜רלֵאמֹ֗ר
And say to the people: Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, and you will eat meat, because you have cried out in the hearing of the LORD, saying: ‘Who will feed us meat? For we were better off in Egypt!’ Therefore the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat.
- Numbers 11:20 לֵאמֹ֔ר
but for a whole month—until it comes out of your nostrils and makes you nauseous—because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have cried out before Him, saying, ‘Why did we ever leave Egypt?’”
- Numbers 11:21 וַיֹּאמֶר֮אָמַ֗רְתָּ
But Moses replied, “Here I am among 600,000 men on foot, yet You say, ‘I will give them meat, and they will eat for a month.’
- Numbers 11:23 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
The LORD answered Moses, “Is the LORD’s arm too short? Now you will see whether or not My word will come to pass.”
- Numbers 11:27 וַיֹּאמַ֑ר
A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.”
- Numbers 11:28 וַיֹּאמַ֑ר
Joshua son of Nun, the attendant to Moses since youth, spoke up and said, “Moses, my lord, stop them!”
- Numbers 11:29 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
But Moses replied, “Are you jealous on my account? I wish that all the LORD’s people were prophets and that the LORD would place His Spirit on them!”
- Numbers 12:2 וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ
“Does the LORD speak only through Moses?” they said. “Does He not also speak through us?” And the LORD heard this.
- Numbers 12:4 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
And suddenly the LORD said to Moses, Aaron, and Miriam, “You three, come out to the Tent of Meeting.” So the three went out,
- Numbers 12:6 וַיֹּ֖אמֶר
He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.
- Numbers 12:11 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר
and said to Moses, “My lord, please do not hold against us this sin we have so foolishly committed.
- Numbers 12:13 לֵאמֹ֑ר
So Moses cried out to the LORD, “O God, please heal her!”
- Numbers 12:14 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
But the LORD answered Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not have been in disgrace for seven days? Let her be confined outside the camp for seven days; after that she may be brought back in.”
- Numbers 13:1 לֵּאמֹֽר׃
And the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 13:17 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
When Moses sent them to spy out the land of Canaan, he told them, “Go up through the Negev and into the hill country.
- Numbers 13:27 וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ
And they gave this account to Moses: “We went into the land to which you sent us, and indeed, it is flowing with milk and honey. Here is some of its fruit!
- Numbers 13:30 וַיֹּ֗אמֶר
Then Caleb quieted the people before Moses and said, “We must go up and take possession of the land, for we can certainly conquer it!”
- Numbers 13:31 אָֽמְר֔וּ
But the men who had gone up with him replied, “We cannot go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are!”
- Numbers 13:32 לֵאמֹ֑ר
So they gave the Israelites a bad report about the land that they had spied out: “The land we explored devours its inhabitants, and all the people we saw there are great in stature.
- Numbers 14:2 וַֽיֹּאמְר֨וּ
All the Israelites grumbled against Moses and Aaron, and the whole congregation said to them, “If only we had died in the land of Egypt, or if only we had died in this wilderness!
- Numbers 14:4 וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ
So they said to one another, “Let us appoint a leader and return to Egypt.”
- Numbers 14:7 וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּלֵאמֹ֑ר
and said to the whole congregation of Israel, “The land we passed through and explored is an exceedingly good land.
- Numbers 14:10 וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙
But the whole congregation threatened to stone Joshua and Caleb. Then the glory of the LORD appeared to all the Israelites at the Tent of Meeting.
- Numbers 14:11 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?
- Numbers 14:13 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר
But Moses said to the LORD, “The Egyptians will hear of it, for by Your strength You brought this people from among them.
- Numbers 14:14 וְאָמְר֗וּ
And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land. They have already heard that You, O LORD, are in the midst of this people, that You, O LORD, have been seen face to face, that Your cloud stands over them, and that You go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night.
- Numbers 14:15 וְאָֽמְרוּ֙לֵאמֹֽר׃
If You kill this people as one man, the nations who have heard of Your fame will say,
- Numbers 14:17 לֵאמֹֽר׃
So now I pray, may the power of my Lord be magnified, just as You have declared:
- Numbers 14:20 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
“I have pardoned them as you requested,” the LORD replied.
- Numbers 14:26 לֵאמֹֽר׃
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
- Numbers 14:28 אֱמֹ֣ר
So tell them: As surely as I live, declares the LORD, I will do to you exactly as I heard you say.
- Numbers 14:31 אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם
But I will bring your children, whom you said would become plunder, into the land you have rejected—and they will enjoy it.
- Numbers 14:40 לֵאמֹ֑ראָמַ֥ר
Early the next morning they got up and went up toward the ridge of the hill country. “We have indeed sinned,” they said, “but we will go to the place the LORD has promised.”
- Numbers 14:41 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
But Moses said, “Why are you transgressing the commandment of the LORD? This will not succeed!
- Numbers 15:1 לֵּאמֹֽר׃
Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 15:2 וְאָמַרְתָּ֖
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: After you enter the land that I am giving you as a home
- Numbers 15:17 לֵּאמֹֽר׃
Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 15:18 וְאָמַרְתָּ֖
“Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you
- Numbers 15:35 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
And the LORD said to Moses, “The man must surely be put to death. The whole congregation is to stone him outside the camp.”