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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Concordance 4,337 verses
- Genesis 37:32 וַיֹּאמְר֖וּ
They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe or not.”
- Genesis 37:33 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙
His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
- Genesis 37:35 וַיֹּ֕אמֶר
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
- Genesis 38:8 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
- Genesis 38:11 וַיֹּ֣אמֶראָמַ֔ר
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
- Genesis 38:13 לֵאמֹ֑ר
When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
- Genesis 38:16 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙
Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
- Genesis 38:17 וַיֹּ֕אמֶרוַתֹּ֕אמֶר
“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
- Genesis 38:18 וַיֹּ֗אמֶרוַתֹּ֗אמֶר
“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
- Genesis 38:21 לֵאמֹ֔רוַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ
He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
- Genesis 38:22 וַיֹּ֖אמֶראָֽמְר֔וּ
So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”
- Genesis 38:23 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
“Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”
- Genesis 38:24 לֵֽאמֹר֙וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
- Genesis 38:25 לֵאמֹ֔רוַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙
As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
- Genesis 38:26 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙
Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
- Genesis 38:28 לֵאמֹ֔ר
And as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she announced.
- Genesis 38:29 וַתֹּ֕אמֶר
But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.
- Genesis 39:7 וַתֹּ֖אמֶר
and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”
- Genesis 39:8 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙
But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.
- Genesis 39:12 לֵאמֹ֖ר
She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
- Genesis 39:14 וַתֹּ֤אמֶרלֵאמֹ֔ר
she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.
- Genesis 39:17 לֵאמֹ֑ר
Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,
- Genesis 39:19 לֵאמֹ֔ר
When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.
- Genesis 40:7 לֵאמֹ֑ר
So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”
- Genesis 40:8 וַיֹּאמְר֣וּוַיֹּ֨אמֶר
“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
- Genesis 40:9 וַיֹּ֣אמֶר
So the chief cupbearer told Joseph his dream: “In my dream there was a vine before me,
- Genesis 40:12 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three branches are three days.
- Genesis 40:16 וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙
When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was favorable, he said to Joseph, “I too had a dream: There were three baskets of white bread on my head.
- Genesis 40:18 וַיֹּ֔אמֶר
Joseph replied, “This is the interpretation: The three baskets are three days.
- Genesis 41:9 לֵאמֹ֑ר
Then the chief cupbearer said to Pharaoh, “Today I recall my failures.
- Genesis 41:15 וַיֹּ֤אמֶרלֵאמֹ֔ר
Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I had a dream, and no one can interpret it. But I have heard it said of you that when you hear a dream you can interpret it.”
- Genesis 41:16 לֵאמֹ֖ר
“I myself cannot do it,” Joseph replied, “but God will give Pharaoh a sound answer.”
- Genesis 41:24 וָֽאֹמַר֙
And the thin heads of grain swallowed the seven plump ones. I told this dream to the magicians, but no one could explain it to me.”
- Genesis 41:25 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
At this, Joseph said to Pharaoh, “The dreams of Pharaoh are one and the same. God has revealed to Pharaoh what He is about to do.
- Genesis 41:38 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר
So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?”
- Genesis 41:39 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
Then Pharaoh said to Joseph, “Since God has made all this known to you, there is no one as discerning and wise as you.
- Genesis 41:41 וַיֹּ֥אמֶר
Pharaoh also told Joseph, “I hereby place you over all the land of Egypt.”
- Genesis 41:44 וַיֹּ֧אמֶר
And Pharaoh declared to Joseph, “I am Pharaoh, but without your permission, no one in all the land of Egypt shall lift his hand or foot.”
- Genesis 41:54 אָמַ֣ר
the seven years of famine began, just as Joseph had said. And although there was famine in every country, there was food throughout the land of Egypt.
- Genesis 41:55 וַיֹּ֨אמֶריֹאמַ֥ר
When extreme hunger came to all the land of Egypt and the people cried out to Pharaoh for food, he told all the Egyptians, “Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.”
- Genesis 42:1 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
When Jacob learned that there was grain in Egypt, he said to his sons, “Why are you staring at one another?”
- Genesis 42:2 וַיֹּ֕אמֶר
“Look,” he added, “I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there and buy some for us, so that we may live and not die.”
- Genesis 42:4 אָמַ֔ר
But Jacob did not send Joseph’s brother Benjamin with his brothers, for he said, “I am afraid that harm might befall him.”
- Genesis 42:7 וַיֹּ֤אמֶרוַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ
And when Joseph saw his brothers, he recognized them, but he treated them as strangers and spoke harshly to them. “Where have you come from?” he asked. “From the land of Canaan,” they replied. “We are here to buy food.”
- Genesis 42:9 וַיֹּ֤אמֶר
Joseph remembered his dreams about them and said, “You are spies! You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
- Genesis 42:10 וַיֹּאמְר֥וּ
“Not so, my lord,” they replied. “Your servants have come to buy food.
- Genesis 42:12 וַיֹּ֖אמֶר
“No,” he told them. “You have come to see if our land is vulnerable.”
- Genesis 42:13 וַיֹּאמְר֗וּ
But they answered, “Your servants are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan. The youngest is now with our father, and one is no more.”
- Genesis 42:14 וַיֹּ֥אמֶרלֵאמֹ֖ר
Then Joseph declared, “Just as I said, you are spies!
- Genesis 42:18 וַיֹּ֨אמֶר
and on the third day he said to them, “I fear God. So do this and you will live: