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)

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Concordance 4,337 verses

  1. Judges 3:19 וַיֹּ֕אמֶרוַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” “Silence,” said the king, and all his attendants left him.

  2. Judges 3:20 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    Then Ehud approached him while he was sitting alone in the coolness of his upper room. “I have a word from God for you,” Ehud said, and the king rose from his seat.

  3. Judges 3:24 וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ

    After Ehud was gone, Eglon’s servants came in and found the doors of the upper room locked. “He must be relieving himself in the cool room,” they said.

  4. Judges 3:28 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר

    “Follow me,” he told them, “for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they followed him down and seized the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and did not allow anyone to cross over.

  5. Judges 4:6 וַתֹּ֨אמֶר

    She summoned Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “Surely the LORD, the God of Israel, is commanding you: ‘Go and march to Mount Tabor, taking with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun.

  6. Judges 4:8 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר

    Barak said to her, “If you will go with me, I will go; but if you will not go with me, I will not go.”

  7. Judges 4:9 וַתֹּ֜אמֶר

    “I will certainly go with you,” Deborah replied, “but the road you are taking will bring you no honor, because the LORD will be selling Sisera into the hand of a woman.” So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh,

  8. Judges 4:14 וַתֹּאמֶר֩

    Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

  9. Judges 4:18 וַתֹּ֣אמֶר

    Jael went out to greet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, my lord. Come in with me. Do not be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

  10. Judges 4:19 וַיֹּ֧אמֶר

    Sisera said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink, for I am thirsty.” So she opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again.

  11. Judges 4:20 וַיֹּ֣אמֶרוְאָמַ֛רוְאָמַ֥רְתְּ

    “Stand at the entrance to the tent,” he said, “and if anyone comes and asks you, ‘Is there a man here?’ say, ‘No.’”

  12. Judges 4:22 וַתֹּ֣אמֶר

    When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.

  13. Judges 5:1 לֵאמֹֽר׃

    On that day Deborah and Barak son of Abinoam sang this song:

  14. Judges 5:23 אָמַר֙

    ‘Curse Meroz,’ says the angel of the LORD. ‘Bitterly curse her inhabitants; for they did not come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’

  15. Judges 6:8 וַיֹּ֨אמֶראָמַ֥ר

    He sent them a prophet, who told them, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I brought you up out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.

  16. Judges 6:10 וָאֹמְרָ֣ה

    And I said to you: ‘I am the LORD your God. You must not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.’ But you did not obey Me.”

  17. Judges 6:12 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    And the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.”

  18. Judges 6:13 וַיֹּ֨אמֶרלֵאמֹ֗ר

    “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”

  19. Judges 6:14 וַיֹּ֗אמֶר

    The LORD turned to him and said, “Go in the strength you have and save Israel from the hand of Midian. Am I not sending you?”

  20. Judges 6:15 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר

    “Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “how can I save Israel? Indeed, my clan is the weakest in Manasseh, and I am the youngest in my father’s house.”

  21. Judges 6:16 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר

    “Surely I will be with you,” the LORD replied, “and you will strike down all the Midianites as one man.”

  22. Judges 6:17 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    Gideon answered, “If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that it is You speaking with me.

  23. Judges 6:18 וַיֹּאמַ֕ר

    Please do not depart from this place until I return to You. Let me bring my offering and set it before You.” And the LORD said, “I will stay until you return.”

  24. Judges 6:20 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר

    And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so.

  25. Judges 6:22 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    When Gideon realized that it was the angel of the LORD, he said, “Oh no, Lord GOD! I have seen the angel of the LORD face to face!”

  26. Judges 6:23 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר

    But the LORD said to him, “Peace be with you. Do not be afraid, for you will not die.”

  27. Judges 6:25 וַיֹּ֧אמֶר

    On that very night the LORD said to Gideon, “Take your father’s young bull and a second bull seven years old, tear down your father’s altar to Baal, and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.

  28. Judges 6:29 וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ

    “Who did this?” they said to one another. And after they had investigated thoroughly, they were told, “Gideon son of Joash did it.”

  29. Judges 6:30 וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ

    Then the men of the city said to Joash, “Bring out your son. He must die, because he has torn down Baal’s altar and cut down the Asherah pole beside it.”

  30. Judges 6:31 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    But Joash said to all who stood against him, “Are you contending for Baal? Are you trying to save him? Whoever pleads his case will be put to death by morning! If Baal is a god, let him contend for himself with the one who has torn down his altar.”

  31. Judges 6:32 לֵאמֹ֑ר

    So on that day Gideon was called Jerubbaal, that is to say, “Let Baal contend with him,” because he had torn down Baal’s altar.

  32. Judges 6:36 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר

    Then Gideon said to God, “If You are going to save Israel by my hand, as You have said,

  33. Judges 6:39 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר

    Then Gideon said to God, “Do not be angry with me; let me speak one more time. Please allow me one more test with the fleece. This time let it be dry, and the ground covered with dew.”

  34. Judges 7:2 וַיֹּ֤אמֶרלֵאמֹ֔ר

    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “You have too many people for Me to deliver Midian into their hands, lest Israel glorify themselves over Me, saying, ‘My own hand has saved me.’

  35. Judges 7:3 לֵאמֹ֔ר

    Now, therefore, proclaim in the hearing of the people: ‘Whoever is fearful and trembling may turn back and leave Mount Gilead.’” So twenty-two thousand of them turned back, but ten thousand remained.

  36. Judges 7:4 וַיֹּ֨אמֶראֹמַ֨ראֹמַ֜ר

    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “There are still too many people. Take them down to the water, and I will sift them for you there. If I say to you, ‘This one shall go with you,’ he shall go. But if I say, ‘This one shall not go with you,’ he shall not go.”

  37. Judges 7:5 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר

    So Gideon brought the people down to the water, and the LORD said to him, “Separate those who lap the water with their tongues like a dog from those who kneel to drink.”

  38. Judges 7:7 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר

    Then the LORD said to Gideon, “With the three hundred men who lapped the water I will save you and deliver the Midianites into your hand. But all the others are to go home.”

  39. Judges 7:9 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר

    That night the LORD said to Gideon, “Get up and go down against the camp, for I have delivered it into your hand.

  40. Judges 7:13 וַיֹּ֜אמֶר

    And as Gideon arrived, a man was telling his friend about a dream. “Behold, I had a dream,” he said, “and I saw a loaf of barley bread come tumbling into the Midianite camp. It struck the tent so hard that the tent overturned and collapsed.”

  41. Judges 7:14 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    His friend replied: “This is nothing less than the sword of Gideon son of Joash, the Israelite. God has delivered Midian and the whole camp into his hand.”

  42. Judges 7:15 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed in worship. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.”

  43. Judges 7:17 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    “Watch me and do as I do,” Gideon said. “When I come to the outskirts of the camp, do exactly as I do.

  44. Judges 7:18 וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם

    When I and all who are with me blow our horns, then you are also to blow your horns from all around the camp and shout, ‘For the LORD and for Gideon!’”

  45. Judges 7:24 לֵאמֹ֗ר

    Gideon sent messengers throughout the hill country of Ephraim to say, “Come down against the Midianites and seize the waters of the Jordan ahead of them as far as Beth-barah.” So all the men of Ephraim were called out, and they captured the waters of the Jordan as far as Beth-barah.

  46. Judges 8:1 וַיֹּאמְר֨וּ

    Then the men of Ephraim said to Gideon, “Why have you done this to us? Why did you fail to call us when you went to fight against Midian?” And they contended with him violently.

  47. Judges 8:2 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    But Gideon answered them, “Now what have I accomplished compared to you? Are not the gleanings of Ephraim better than the grape harvest of Abiezer?

  48. Judges 8:5 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    So Gideon said to the men of Succoth, “Please give my troops some bread, for they are exhausted, and I am still pursuing Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian.”

  49. Judges 8:6 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    But the leaders of Succoth asked, “Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna already in your possession, that we should give bread to your army?”

  50. Judges 8:7 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    “Very well,” Gideon replied, “when the LORD has delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will tear your flesh with the thorns and briers of the wilderness!”

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