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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- 2 Samuel 7:26 לֵאמֹ֔ר
so that Your name will be magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts is God over Israel.’ And the house of Your servant David will be established before You.
- 2 Samuel 7:27 לֵאמֹ֔ר
For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.
- 2 Samuel 9:1 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
Then David asked, “Is there anyone left from the house of Saul to whom I can show kindness for the sake of Jonathan?”
- 2 Samuel 9:2 וַיֹּ֨אמֶרוַיֹּ֥אמֶר
And there was a servant of Saul’s family named Ziba. They summoned him to David, and the king inquired, “Are you Ziba?” “I am your servant,” he replied.
- 2 Samuel 9:3 וַיֹּ֣אמֶרוַיֹּ֤אמֶר
So the king asked, “Is there anyone left of Saul’s family to whom I can show the kindness of God?” Ziba answered, “There is still Jonathan’s son, who is lame in both feet.”
- 2 Samuel 9:4 וַיֹּֽאמֶר־וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
“Where is he?” replied the king. And Ziba said, “Indeed, he is in Lo-debar at the house of Machir son of Ammiel.”
- 2 Samuel 9:6 וַיֹּ֤אמֶרוַיֹּ֖אמֶר
And when Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he fell facedown in reverence. Then David said, “Mephibosheth!” “I am your servant,” he replied.
- 2 Samuel 9:7 וַיֹּאמֶר֩
“Do not be afraid,” said David, “for surely I will show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land of your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table.”
- 2 Samuel 9:8 וַיֹּ֖אמֶר
Mephibosheth bowed down and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?”
- 2 Samuel 9:9 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
Then the king summoned Saul’s servant Ziba and said to him, “I have given to your master’s grandson all that belonged to Saul and to all his house.
- 2 Samuel 9:11 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
And Ziba said to the king, “Your servant will do all that my lord the king has commanded.” So Mephibosheth ate at David’s table like one of the king’s own sons.
- 2 Samuel 10:2 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
And David said, “I will show kindness to Hanun son of Nahash, just as his father showed kindness to me.” So David sent some of his servants to console Hanun concerning his father. But when they arrived in the land of the Ammonites,
- 2 Samuel 10:3 וַיֹּאמְרוּ֩
the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, “Just because David has sent you comforters, do you really believe he is showing respect for your father? Has not David instead sent his servants to explore the city, spy it out, and overthrow it?”
- 2 Samuel 10:5 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
When this was reported to David, he sent messengers to meet the men, since they had been thoroughly humiliated. The king told them, “Stay in Jericho until your beards have grown back, and then return.”
- 2 Samuel 10:11 וַיֹּ֗אמֶר
“If the Arameans are too strong for me,” said Joab, “then you will come to my rescue. And if the Ammonites are too strong for you, then I will come to your rescue.
- 2 Samuel 11:3 וַיֹּ֗אמֶר
So David sent and inquired about the woman, and he was told, “This is Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam and the wife of Uriah the Hittite.”
- 2 Samuel 11:5 וַתֹּ֖אמֶר
And the woman conceived and sent word to David, saying, “I am pregnant.”
- 2 Samuel 11:8 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.
- 2 Samuel 11:10 לֵאמֹ֔רוַיֹּ֨אמֶר
And David was told, “Uriah did not go home.” “Haven’t you just arrived from a journey?” David asked Uriah. “Why didn’t you go home?”
- 2 Samuel 11:11 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
Uriah answered, “The ark and Israel and Judah are dwelling in tents, and my master Joab and his soldiers are camped in the open field. How can I go to my house to eat and drink and sleep with my wife? As surely as you live, and as your soul lives, I will not do such a thing!”
- 2 Samuel 11:12 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
“Stay here one more day,” David said to Uriah, “and tomorrow I will send you back.” So Uriah stayed in Jerusalem that day and the next.
- 2 Samuel 11:15 לֵאמֹ֑ר
In the letter he wrote: “Put Uriah at the front of the fiercest battle; then withdraw from him, so that he may be struck down and killed.”
- 2 Samuel 11:19 לֵאמֹ֑ר
and instructed the messenger, “When you have finished giving the king all the details of the battle,
- 2 Samuel 11:20 וְאָמַ֣ר
if the king’s anger flares, he may ask you, ‘Why did you get so close to the city to fight? Did you not realize they would shoot from atop the wall?
- 2 Samuel 11:21 וְאָ֣מַרְתָּ֔
Who was the one to strike Abimelech son of Jerubbesheth ? Was it not a woman who dropped an upper millstone on him from the wall, so that he died in Thebez? Why did you get so close to the wall?’ If so, then you are to say, ‘Your servant Uriah the Hittite is dead as well.’”
- 2 Samuel 11:23 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
The messenger said to David, “The men overpowered us and came out against us in the field, but we drove them back to the entrance of the gate.
- 2 Samuel 11:25 וַיֹּ֨אמֶרתֹאמַ֤ר
Then David told the messenger, “Say this to Joab: ‘Do not let this matter upset you, for the sword devours one as well as another. Strengthen your attack against the city and demolish it.’ Encourage him with these words.”
- 2 Samuel 12:1 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
Then the LORD sent Nathan to David, and when he arrived, he said, “There were two men in a certain city, one rich and the other poor.
- 2 Samuel 12:5 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙
David burned with anger against the man and said to Nathan: “As surely as the LORD lives, the man who did this deserves to die!
- 2 Samuel 12:7 וַיֹּ֧אמֶראָמַ֨ר
Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
- 2 Samuel 12:11 אָמַ֣ר
This is what the LORD says: ‘I will raise up adversity against you from your own house. Before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to another, and he will lie with them in broad daylight.
- 2 Samuel 12:13 וַיֹּ֤אמֶרוַיֹּ֨אמֶר
Then David said to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” “The LORD has taken away your sin,” Nathan replied. “You will not die.
- 2 Samuel 12:18 אָֽמְרוּ֙נֹאמַ֥ר
On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
- 2 Samuel 12:19 וַיֹּ֨אמֶרוַיֹּ֥אמְרוּ
When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied.
- 2 Samuel 12:21 וַיֹּאמְר֤וּ
“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
- 2 Samuel 12:22 וַיֹּ֕אמֶראָמַ֙רְתִּי֙
David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’
- 2 Samuel 12:27 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙
Then Joab sent messengers to David to say, “I have fought against Rabbah and have captured the water supply of the city.
- 2 Samuel 13:4 וַיֹּ֣אמֶרוַיֹּ֤אמֶר
so he asked Amnon, “Why are you, the son of the king, so depressed morning after morning? Won’t you tell me?” Amnon replied, “I am in love with Tamar, my brother Absalom’s sister.”
- 2 Samuel 13:5 וַיֹּ֤אמֶרוְאָמַרְתָּ֣
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
- 2 Samuel 13:6 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
- 2 Samuel 13:7 לֵאמֹ֑ר
Then David sent word to Tamar at the palace: “Please go to the house of Amnon your brother and prepare a meal for him.”
- 2 Samuel 13:9 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
Then she brought the pan and set it down before him, but he refused to eat. “Send everyone away!” said Amnon. And everyone went out.
- 2 Samuel 13:10 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.
- 2 Samuel 13:11 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
And when she had brought them to him to eat, he took hold of her and said, “Come lie with me, my sister!”
- 2 Samuel 13:12 וַתֹּ֣אמֶר
“No, my brother!” she cried. “Do not humiliate me, for such a thing should never be done in Israel. Do not do this disgraceful thing!
- 2 Samuel 13:15 וַֽיֹּאמֶר־
Then Amnon hated Tamar with such intensity that his hatred was greater than the love he previously had. “Get up!” he said to her. “Be gone!”
- 2 Samuel 13:16 וַתֹּ֣אמֶר
“No,” she replied, “sending me away is worse than this great wrong you have already done to me!” But he refused to listen to her.
- 2 Samuel 13:17 וַיֹּ֕אמֶר
Instead, he called to his attendant and said, “Throw this woman out and bolt the door behind her!”
- 2 Samuel 13:20 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
Her brother Absalom said to her, “Has your brother Amnon been with you? Be quiet for now, my sister. He is your brother. Do not take this thing to heart.” So Tamar lived as a desolate woman in the house of her brother Absalom.
- 2 Samuel 13:24 וַיֹּ֕אמֶר
And he went to the king and said, “Your servant has just hired shearers. Will the king and his servants please come with me?”