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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- Genesis 32:2 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
When Jacob saw them, he said, “This is the camp of God.” So he named that place Mahanaim.
- Genesis 32:4 לֵאמֹ֔רתֹאמְר֔וּןאָמַר֙
He instructed them, “You are to say to my master Esau, ‘Your servant Jacob says: I have been staying with Laban and have remained there until now.
- Genesis 32:6 לֵאמֹ֑ר
When the messengers returned to Jacob, they said, “We went to your brother Esau, and now he is coming to meet you—he and four hundred men with him.”
- Genesis 32:8 וַיֹּ֕אמֶר
He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”
- Genesis 32:9 וַיֹּאמֶר֮הָאֹמֵ֣ר
Then Jacob declared, “O God of my father Abraham, God of my father Isaac, the LORD who told me, ‘Go back to your country and to your kindred, and I will make you prosper,’
- Genesis 32:12 אָמַ֔רְתָּ
But You have said, ‘I will surely make you prosper, and I will make your offspring like the sand of the sea, too numerous to count.’”
- Genesis 32:16 וַ֤יֹּאמֶר
He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”
- Genesis 32:17 לֵאמֹ֑רלֵאמֹ֔ר
He instructed the one in the lead, “When my brother Esau meets you and asks, ‘To whom do you belong, where are you going, and whose animals are these before you?’
- Genesis 32:18 וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙
then you are to say, ‘They belong to your servant Jacob. They are a gift, sent to my lord Esau. And behold, Jacob is behind us.’”
- Genesis 32:19 לֵאמֹ֑ר
He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.
- Genesis 32:20 וַאֲמַרְתֶּ֕םאָמַ֞ר
You are also to say, ‘Look, your servant Jacob is right behind us.’” For he thought, “I will appease Esau with the gift that is going before me. After that I can face him, and perhaps he will accept me.”
- Genesis 32:26 וַיֹּ֣אמֶרוַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙
Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
- Genesis 32:27 וַיֹּ֥אמֶרוַיֹּ֖אמֶר
“What is your name?” the man asked. “Jacob,” he replied.
- Genesis 32:28 וַיֹּ֗אמֶריֵאָמֵ֥ר
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
- Genesis 32:29 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙וַיֹּ֕אמֶר
And Jacob requested, “Please tell me your name.” But he replied, “Why do you ask my name?” Then he blessed Jacob there.
- Genesis 33:5 וַיֹּ֖אמֶרוַיֹּאמַ֕ר
When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
- Genesis 33:8 וַיֹּ֕אמֶרוַיֹּ֕אמֶר
“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
- Genesis 33:9 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר
“I already have plenty, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what belongs to you.”
- Genesis 33:10 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
But Jacob insisted, “No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.
- Genesis 33:12 וַיֹּ֖אמֶר
Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way, and I will go ahead of you.”
- Genesis 33:13 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
- Genesis 33:15 וַיֹּ֣אמֶרוַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙
“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
- Genesis 34:4 וַיֹּ֣אמֶרלֵאמֹ֑ר
So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”
- Genesis 34:8 לֵאמֹ֑ר
But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
- Genesis 34:11 וַיֹּ֤אמֶרתֹּאמְר֛וּ
Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.
- Genesis 34:12 תֹּאמְר֖וּ
Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
- Genesis 34:14 וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ
“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
- Genesis 34:20 לֵאמֹֽר׃
So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:
- Genesis 34:30 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
- Genesis 34:31 וַיֹּאמְר֑וּ
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
- Genesis 35:1 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
- Genesis 35:2 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
- Genesis 35:10 וַיֹּֽאמֶר־
And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.
- Genesis 35:11 וַיֹּאמֶר֩
And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
- Genesis 35:17 וַתֹּ֨אמֶר
During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”
- Genesis 37:6 וַיֹּ֖אמֶר
He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:
- Genesis 37:8 וַיֹּ֤אמְרוּ
“Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.
- Genesis 37:9 וַיֹּ֗אמֶר
Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
- Genesis 37:10 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
- Genesis 37:13 וַיֹּ֨אמֶרוַיֹּ֥אמֶר
Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
- Genesis 37:14 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
- Genesis 37:15 לֵאמֹ֖ר
a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”
- Genesis 37:16 וַיֹּ֕אמֶר
“I am looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”
- Genesis 37:17 וַיֹּ֤אמֶראֹֽמְרִ֔ים
“They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
- Genesis 37:19 וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ
“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.
- Genesis 37:20 וְאָמַ֕רְנוּ
“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”
- Genesis 37:21 וַיֹּ֕אמֶר
When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he said.
- Genesis 37:22 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
“Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.
- Genesis 37:26 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר
Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
- Genesis 37:30 וַיֹּאמַ֑ר
returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”