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)
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- Joshua 4:3 לֵאמֹר֒
and command them: ‘Take up for yourselves twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan where the priests were standing, carry them with you, and set them down in the place where you spend the night.’”
- Joshua 4:5 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
and said to them, “Cross over before the ark of the LORD your God into the middle of the Jordan. Each of you is to take a stone upon his shoulder, according to the number of the tribes of Israel,
- Joshua 4:6 לֵאמֹ֔ר
to serve as a sign among you. In the future, when your children ask, ‘What do these stones mean to you?’
- Joshua 4:7 וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֣ם
you are to tell them, ‘The waters of the Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the LORD. When it crossed the Jordan, the waters were cut off.’ Therefore these stones will be a memorial to the Israelites forever.”
- Joshua 4:15 וַיֹּ֣אמֶרלֵאמֹֽר׃
Then the LORD said to Joshua,
- Joshua 4:17 לֵאמֹ֑ר
So Joshua commanded the priests, “Come up from the Jordan.”
- Joshua 4:21 וַיֹּ֛אמֶרלֵאמֹ֑רלֵאמֹ֔ר
Then Joshua said to the Israelites, “In the future, when your children ask their fathers, ‘What is the meaning of these stones?’
- Joshua 4:22 לֵאמֹ֑ר
you are to tell them, ‘Israel crossed the Jordan on dry ground.’
- Joshua 5:2 אָמַ֤ר
At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again.”
- Joshua 5:9 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” So that place has been called Gilgal to this day.
- Joshua 5:13 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in His hand. Joshua approached Him and asked, “Are You for us or for our enemies?”
- Joshua 5:14 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
“Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as Commander of the LORD’s army.” Then Joshua fell facedown in reverence and asked Him, “What does my Lord have to say to His servant?”
- Joshua 5:15 וַיֹּאמֶר֩
The Commander of the LORD’s army replied, “Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy.” And Joshua did so.
- Joshua 6:2 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
And the LORD said to Joshua, “Behold, I have delivered Jericho into your hand, along with its king and its mighty men of valor.
- Joshua 6:6 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
So Joshua son of Nun summoned the priests and said, “Take up the ark of the covenant and have seven priests carry seven rams’ horns in front of the ark of the LORD.”
- Joshua 6:7 וַיֹּאמְרוּ
And he told the people, “Advance and march around the city, with the armed troops going ahead of the ark of the LORD.”
- Joshua 6:8 כֶּאֱמֹ֣ר
After Joshua had spoken to the people, seven priests carrying seven rams’ horns before the LORD advanced and blew the horns, and the ark of the covenant of the LORD followed them.
- Joshua 6:10 לֵאמֹ֗ראָמְרִ֧י
But Joshua had commanded the people: “Do not give a battle cry or let your voice be heard; do not let one word come out of your mouth until the day I tell you to shout. Then you are to shout!”
- Joshua 6:16 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
After the seventh time around, the priests blew the horns, and Joshua commanded the people, “Shout! For the LORD has given you the city!
- Joshua 6:22 אָמַ֣ר
Meanwhile, Joshua told the two men who had spied out the land, “Go into the house of the prostitute and bring out the woman and all who are with her, just as you promised her.”
- Joshua 6:26 לֵאמֹ֑ר
At that time Joshua invoked this solemn oath: “Cursed before the LORD is the man who rises up and rebuilds this city, Jericho; at the cost of his firstborn he will lay its foundations; at the cost of his youngest he will set up its gates.”
- Joshua 7:2 וַיֹּ֤אמֶרלֵאמֹ֔ר
Meanwhile, Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth-aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, “Go up and spy out the land.” So the men went up and spied out Ai.
- Joshua 7:3 וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ
On returning to Joshua, they reported, “There is no need to send all the people; two or three thousand men are enough to go up and attack Ai. Since the people of Ai are so few, you need not wear out all our people there.”
- Joshua 7:7 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
“O, Lord GOD,” Joshua said, “why did You ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites to be destroyed? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan!
- Joshua 7:8 אֹמַ֔ר
O Lord, what can I say, now that Israel has turned its back and run from its enemies?
- Joshua 7:10 וַיֹּ֧אמֶר
But the LORD said to Joshua, “Stand up! Why have you fallen on your face?
- Joshua 7:13 וְאָמַרְתָּ֖אָמַ֨ר
Get up and consecrate the people, saying, ‘Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow, for this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Among you, O Israel, there are things devoted to destruction. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them.
- Joshua 7:19 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”
- Joshua 7:20 וַיֹּאמַ֑ר
“It is true,” Achan replied, “I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel. This is what I did:
- Joshua 7:25 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
“Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.
- Joshua 8:1 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid or discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. See, I have delivered into your hand the king of Ai, his people, his city, and his land.
- Joshua 8:4 לֵאמֹ֗ר
with these orders: “Pay attention. You are to lie in ambush behind the city, not too far from it. All of you must be ready.
- Joshua 8:6 יֹֽאמְר֔וּ
They will pursue us until we have drawn them away from the city, for they will say, ‘The Israelites are running away from us as they did before.’ So as we flee from them,
- Joshua 8:18 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Hold out your battle lance toward Ai, for into your hand I will deliver the city.” So Joshua held out his battle lance toward Ai,
- Joshua 9:6 וַיֹּאמְר֨וּ
They went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the men of Israel, “We have come from a distant land; please make a treaty with us.”
- Joshua 9:7 וַיֹּאמְרוּ
But the men of Israel said to the Hivites, “Perhaps you dwell near us. How can we make a treaty with you?”
- Joshua 9:8 וַיֹּאמְר֥וּוַיֹּ֨אמֶר
“We are your servants,” they said to Joshua. Then Joshua asked them, “Who are you and where have you come from?”
- Joshua 9:9 וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ
“Your servants have come from a very distant land,” they replied, “because of the fame of the LORD your God. For we have heard the reports about Him: all that He did in Egypt,
- Joshua 9:11 וַיֹּאמְר֣וּלֵאמֹ֗רוַאֲמַרְתֶּ֤ם
So the elders and inhabitants of our land told us, ‘Take provisions for your journey; go to meet them and say to them: We are your servants. Please make a treaty with us.’
- Joshua 9:19 וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ
All the leaders answered, “We have sworn an oath to them by the LORD, the God of Israel, and now we cannot touch them.
- Joshua 9:21 וַיֹּאמְר֧וּ
They continued, “Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers for the whole congregation.” So the leaders kept their promise.
- Joshua 9:22 לֵאמֹ֑רלֵאמֹ֗ר
Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, “Why did you deceive us by telling us you live far away from us, when in fact you live among us?
- Joshua 9:24 וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ
The Gibeonites answered, “Your servants were told clearly that the LORD your God had commanded His servant Moses to give you all the land and wipe out all its inhabitants before you. So we greatly feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we have done this.
- Joshua 10:3 לֵאמֹֽר׃
Therefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent word to Hoham king of Hebron, Piram king of Jarmuth, Japhia king of Lachish, and Debir king of Eglon, saying,
- Joshua 10:6 לֵאמֹ֔ר
Then the men of Gibeon sent word to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal: “Do not abandon your servants. Come quickly and save us! Help us, because all the kings of the Amorites from the hill country have joined forces against us.”
- Joshua 10:8 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for I have delivered them into your hand. Not one of them shall stand against you.”
- Joshua 10:12 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀
On the day that the LORD gave the Amorites over to the Israelites, Joshua spoke to the LORD in the presence of Israel: “O sun, stand still over Gibeon, O moon, over the Valley of Aijalon.”
- Joshua 10:17 לֵאמֹ֑ר
And Joshua was informed: “The five kings have been found; they are hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”
- Joshua 10:18 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
So Joshua said, “Roll large stones against the mouth of the cave, and post men there to guard them.
- Joshua 10:22 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
Then Joshua said, “Open the mouth of the cave and bring those five kings out to me.”