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. Genesis 18:23 וַיֹּאמַ֑ר

    Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?

  2. Genesis 18:26 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.”

  3. Genesis 18:27 וַיֹּאמַ֑ר

    Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—

  4. Genesis 18:28 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”

  5. Genesis 18:29 וַיֹּאמַ֔רוַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.”

  6. Genesis 18:30 וַ֠יֹּאמֶרוַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    Then Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak further. Suppose thirty are found there?” He replied, “If I find thirty there, I will not do it.”

  7. Genesis 18:31 וַיֹּ֗אמֶרוַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    And Abraham said, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose twenty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the twenty, I will not destroy it.”

  8. Genesis 18:32 וַ֠יֹּאמֶרוַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    Finally, Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak once more. Suppose ten are found there?” And He answered, “On account of the ten, I will not destroy it.”

  9. Genesis 19:2 וַיֹּ֜אמֶרוַיֹּאמְר֣וּ

    and said, “My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”

  10. Genesis 19:5 וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּ

    They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”

  11. Genesis 19:7 וַיֹּאמַ֑ר

    “Please, my brothers,” he pleaded, “don’t do such a wicked thing!

  12. Genesis 19:9 וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ׀וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙

    “Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.

  13. Genesis 19:12 וַיֹּאמְר֨וּ

    Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,

  14. Genesis 19:14 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.

  15. Genesis 19:15 לֵאמֹ֑ר

    At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”

  16. Genesis 19:17 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”

  17. Genesis 19:18 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר

    But Lot replied, “No, my lords, please!

  18. Genesis 19:21 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    “Very well,” he answered, “I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.

  19. Genesis 19:31 וַתֹּ֧אמֶר

    One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.

  20. Genesis 19:34 וַתֹּ֤אמֶר

    The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”

  21. Genesis 20:2 וַיֹּ֧אמֶר

    Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.

  22. Genesis 20:3 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”

  23. Genesis 20:4 וַיֹּאמַ֕ר

    Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he replied, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent?

  24. Genesis 20:5 אָֽמַר־אָֽמְרָ֖ה

    Didn’t Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”

  25. Genesis 20:6 וַיֹּאמֶר֩

    Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.

  26. Genesis 20:9 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר

    Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such tremendous guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done.”

  27. Genesis 20:10 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר

    Abimelech also asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do such a thing?”

  28. Genesis 20:11 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙אָמַ֗רְתִּי

    Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’

  29. Genesis 20:13 וָאֹמַ֣ראִמְרִי־

    So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”

  30. Genesis 20:15 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    And Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever you please.”

  31. Genesis 20:16 אָמַ֗ר

    And he said to Sarah, “See, I am giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your vindication before all who are with you; you are completely cleared.”

  32. Genesis 21:1 אָמָ֑ר

    Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.

  33. Genesis 21:6 וַתֹּ֣אמֶר

    Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”

  34. Genesis 21:7 וַתֹּ֗אמֶר

    She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”

  35. Genesis 21:10 וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”

  36. Genesis 21:12 וַיֹּ֨אמֶרתֹּאמַ֥ר

    But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.

  37. Genesis 21:16 אָֽמְרָ֔ה

    Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.

  38. Genesis 21:17 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר

    Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.

  39. Genesis 21:22 וַיֹּ֣אמֶרלֵאמֹ֑ר

    At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.

  40. Genesis 21:24 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”

  41. Genesis 21:26 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר

    Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”

  42. Genesis 21:29 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר

    and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”

  43. Genesis 21:30 וַיֹּ֕אמֶר

    He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”

  44. Genesis 22:1 וַיֹּ֣אמֶרוַיֹּ֥אמֶר

    Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.

  45. Genesis 22:2 וַיֹּ֡אמֶראֹמַ֥ר

    “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”

  46. Genesis 22:3 אָֽמַר־

    So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.

  47. Genesis 22:5 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר

    “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told his servants. “The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you.”

  48. Genesis 22:7 וַיֹּ֨אמֶרוַיֹּ֣אמֶרוַיֹּ֖אמֶרוַיֹּ֗אמֶר

    Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”

  49. Genesis 22:8 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙

    Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two walked on together.

  50. Genesis 22:9 אָֽמַר־

    When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.

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