אָמַר
to say
also: speak, utter fuller range ↓
H559
Strong's Hebrew
ʼâmar
Transliteration
/aw-mar'/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
5,314
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
BDB Definition
to say, speak, utter
- (Qal) to say, to answer, to say in one's heart, to think, to command, to promise, to intend
- (Niphal) to be told, to be said, to be called
- (Hithpael) to boast, to act proudly
- (Hiphil) to avow, to avouch
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘avow’
- Hithpael
- The reflexive or reciprocal stem (the subject acts on itself).
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
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Genesis
- Genesis 26:7 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר לֵ/אמֹ֣ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms prep + Qal inf.cs The men of the place asked him about his wife. He said, "She is my sister," for he was afraid to say, "My wife," lest, he thought, the men of the place might kill me for Rebekah, because she was beautiful to look on.
- Genesis 26:9 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ אָמַ֖רְתָּ וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר אָמַ֔רְתִּי conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 2ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 1cs Abimelech called Isaac, and said, "Behold, surely she is your wife. Why did you say, 'She is my sister?'" Isaac said to him, "Because I said, 'Lest I die because of her.'"
- Genesis 26:10 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Abimelech said, "What is this you have done to us? One of the people might easily have lain with your wife, and you would have brought guilt on us!"
- Genesis 26:11 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs Abimelech charged all the people, saying, "He who touches this man or his wife will surely be put to death."
- Genesis 26:16 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Abimelech said to Isaac, "Go from us, for you are much mightier than we."
- Genesis 26:20 לֵ/אמֹ֖ר prep + Qal inf.cs The herdsmen of Gerar argued with Isaac's herdsmen, saying, "The water is ours." He called the name of the well Esek, because they contended with him.
- Genesis 26:22 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He left that place, and dug another well. They didn't argue over that one. He called it Rehoboth. He said, "For now Yahweh has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land."
- Genesis 26:24 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh appeared to him the same night, and said, "I am the God of Abraham your father. Don't be afraid, for I am with you, and will bless you, and multiply your seed for my servant Abraham's sake."
- Genesis 26:27 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Isaac said to them, "Why have you come to me, since you hate me, and have sent me away from you?"
- Genesis 26:28 וַ/יֹּאמְר֗וּ וַ/נֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 1cp They said, "We saw plainly that Yahweh was with you. We said, 'Let there now be an oath between us, even between us and you, and let us make a covenant with you,
- Genesis 26:32 וַ/יֹּ֥אמְרוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp It happened the same day, that Isaac's servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had dug, and said to him, "We have found water."
- Genesis 27:1 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, that when Isaac was old, and his eyes were dim, so that he could not see, he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, "My son?" He said to him, "Here I am."
- Genesis 27:2 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, "See now, I am old. I don't know the day of my death.
- Genesis 27:6 אָֽמְרָ֔ה לֵ/אמֹ֑ר לֵ/אמֹֽר Qal pf 3fs prep + Qal inf.cs prep + Qal inf.cs Rebekah spoke to Jacob her son, saying, "Behold, I heard your father speak to Esau your brother, saying,
- Genesis 27:11 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, "Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.
- Genesis 27:13 וַ/תֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs His mother said to him, "Let your curse be on me, my son. Only obey my voice, and go get them for me."
- Genesis 27:18 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He came to his father, and said, "My father?" He said, "Here I am. Who are you, my son?"
- Genesis 27:19 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob said to his father, "I am Esau your firstborn. I have done what you asked me to do. Please arise, sit and eat of my venison, that your soul may bless me."
- Genesis 27:20 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Isaac said to his son, "How is it that you have found it so quickly, my son?" He said, "Because Yahweh your God gave me success."
- Genesis 27:21 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Isaac said to Jacob, "Please come near, that I may feel you, my son, whether you are really my son Esau or not."
- Genesis 27:22 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob went near to Isaac his father. He felt him, and said, "The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau."
- Genesis 27:24 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, "Are you really my son Esau?" He said, "I am."
- Genesis 27:25 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, "Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless you." He brought it near to him, and he ate. He brought him wine, and he drank.
- Genesis 27:26 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms His father Isaac said to him, "Come near now, and kiss me, my son."
- Genesis 27:27 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He came near, and kissed him. He smelled the smell of his clothing, and blessed him, and said, "Behold, the smell of my son Is as the smell of a field which Yahweh has blessed.
- Genesis 27:31 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He also made savory food, and brought it to his father. He said to his father, "Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that your soul may bless me."
- Genesis 27:32 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Isaac his father said to him, "Who are you?" He said, "I am your son, your firstborn, Esau."
- Genesis 27:33 וַ/יֹּ֡אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Isaac trembled violently, and said, "Who, then, is he who has taken venison, and brought it me, and I have eaten of all before you came, and have blessed him? Yes, he will be blessed."
- Genesis 27:34 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said to his father, "Bless me, even me also, my father."
- Genesis 27:35 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, "Your brother came with deceit, and has taken away your blessing."
- Genesis 27:36 וַ/יֹּ֡אמֶר וַ/יֹּאמַ֕ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, "Isn't he rightly named Jacob? For he has supplanted me these two times. He took away my birthright. See, now he has taken away my blessing." He said, "Haven't you reserved a blessing for me?"
- Genesis 27:37 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Isaac answered Esau, "Behold, I have made him your lord, and all his brothers have I given to him for servants. With grain and new wine have I sustained him. What then will I do for you, my son?"
- Genesis 27:38 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Esau said to his father, "Have you but one blessing, my father? Bless me, even me also, my father." Esau lifted up his voice, and wept.
- Genesis 27:39 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Isaac his father answered him, "Behold, of the fatness of the earth will be your dwelling, and of the dew of the sky from above.
- Genesis 27:41 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing with which his father blessed him. Esau said in his heart, "The days of mourning for my father are at hand. Then I will kill my brother Jacob."
- Genesis 27:42 וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs The words of Esau, her elder son, were told to Rebekah. She sent and called Jacob her younger son, and said to him, "Behold, your brother Esau comforts himself about you by planning to kill you.
- Genesis 27:46 וַ/תֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Rebekah said to Isaac, "I am weary of my life because of the daughters of Heth. If Jacob takes a wife of the daughters of Heth, such as these, of the daughters of the land, what good will my life do me?"
- Genesis 28:1 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Isaac called Jacob, blessed him, and commanded him, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.
- Genesis 28:6 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs Now Esau saw that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him away to Paddan Aram, to take him a wife from there, and that as he blessed him he gave him a charge, saying, "You shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan,"
- Genesis 28:13 וַ/יֹּאמַר֒ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
- Genesis 28:16 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob awakened out of his sleep, and he said, "Surely Yahweh is in this place, and I didn't know it."
- Genesis 28:17 וַ/יֹּאמַ֔ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He was afraid, and said, "How dreadful is this place! This is none other than God's house, and this is the gate of heaven."
- Genesis 28:20 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs Jacob vowed a vow, saying, "If God will be with me, and will keep me in this way that I go, and will give me bread to eat, and clothing to put on,
- Genesis 29:4 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Jacob said to them, "My relatives, where are you from?" They said, "We are from Haran."
- Genesis 29:5 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר וַ/יֹּאמְר֖וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3mp He said to them, "Do you know Laban, the son of Nahor?" They said, "We know him."
- Genesis 29:6 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3mp He said to them, "Is it well with him?" They said, "It is well. See, Rachel, his daughter, is coming with the sheep."
- Genesis 29:7 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, "Behold, it is still the middle of the day, not time to gather the cattle together. Water the sheep, and go and feed them."
- Genesis 29:8 וַ/יֹּאמְרוּ֮ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said, "We can't, until all the flocks are gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well's mouth. Then we water the sheep."
- Genesis 29:14 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Laban said to him, Surely you are my bone and my flesh. He lived with him for a month.
- Genesis 29:15 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Laban said to Jacob, "Because you are my brother, should you therefore serve me for nothing? Tell me, what will your wages be?"
- Genesis 29:18 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob loved Rachel. He said, "I will serve you seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter."
- Genesis 29:19 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Laban said, "It is better that I give her to you, than that I should give her to another man. Stay with me."
- Genesis 29:21 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob said to Laban, "Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in to her."
- Genesis 29:25 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened in the morning that, behold, it was Leah. He said to Laban, "What is this you have done to me? Didn't I serve with you for Rachel? Why then have you deceived me?"
- Genesis 29:26 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Laban said, "It is not done so in our place, to give the younger before the first born.
- Genesis 29:32 אָֽמְרָ֗ה Qal pf 3fs Leah conceived, and bore a son, and she named him Reuben. For she said, "Because Yahweh has looked at my affliction. For now my husband will love me."
- Genesis 29:33 וַ/תֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She conceived again, and bare a son, and said, "Because Yahweh has heard that I am hated, he has therefore given me this son also." She named him Simeon.
- Genesis 29:34 וַ/תֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She conceived again, and bare a son. Said, "Now this time will my husband be joined to me, because I have borne him three sons." Therefore was his name called Levi.
- Genesis 29:35 וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She conceived again, and bare a son. She said, "This time will I praise Yahweh." Therefore she named him Judah. Then she stopped bearing.
- Genesis 30:1 וַ/תֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs When Rachel saw that she bore Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister. She said to Jacob, "Give me children, or else I will die."
- Genesis 30:2 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob's anger was kindled against Rachel, and he said, "Am I in God's place, who has withheld from you the fruit of the womb?"
- Genesis 30:3 וַ/תֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She said, "Behold, my maid Bilhah. Go in to her, that she may bear on my knees, and I also may obtain children by her."
- Genesis 30:6 וַ/תֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Rachel said, "God has judged me, and has also heard my voice, and has given me a son." Therefore called she his name Dan.
- Genesis 30:8 וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Rachel said, "With mighty wrestlings have I wrestled with my sister, and have prevailed." She named him Naphtali.
- Genesis 30:11 וַ/תֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Leah said, "How fortunate!" She named him Gad.
- Genesis 30:13 וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Leah said, "Happy am I, for the daughters will call me happy." She named him Asher.
- Genesis 30:14 וַ/תֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them to his mother, Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, "Please give me some of your son's mandrakes."
- Genesis 30:15 וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She said to her, "Is it a small matter that you have taken away my husband? Would you take away my son's mandrakes, also?" Rachel said, "Therefore he will lie with you tonight for your son's mandrakes."
- Genesis 30:16 וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, "You must come in to me; for I have surely hired you with my son's mandrakes." He lay with her that night.
- Genesis 30:18 וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Leah said, "God has given me my hire, because I gave my handmaid to my husband." She named him Issachar.
- Genesis 30:20 וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Leah said, "God has endowed me with a good dowry. Now my husband will live with me, because I have borne him six sons." She named him Zebulun.
- Genesis 30:23 וַ/תֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She conceived, bore a son, and said, "God has taken away my reproach."
- Genesis 30:24 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs She named him Joseph, saying, "May Yahweh add another son to me."
- Genesis 30:25 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said to Laban, "Send me away, that I may go to my own place, and to my country.
- Genesis 30:27 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Laban said to him, "If now I have found favor in your eyes, stay here, for I have divined that Yahweh has blessed me for your sake."
- Genesis 30:28 וַ/יֹּאמַ֑ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, "Appoint me your wages, and I will give it."
- Genesis 30:29 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to him, "You know how I have served you, and how your cattle have fared with me.
- Genesis 30:31 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, "What shall I give you?" Jacob said, "You shall not give me anything. If you will do this thing for me, I will again feed your flock and keep it.
- Genesis 30:34 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Laban said, "Behold, I desire it to be according to your word."
- Genesis 31:1 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs He heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, "Jacob has taken away all that was our father's. From that which was our father's, has he gotten all this wealth."
- Genesis 31:3 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
- Genesis 31:5 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms and said to them, "I see the expression on your father's face, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father has been with me.
- Genesis 31:8 יֹאמַ֗ר יֹאמַ֗ר Qal impf 3ms Qal impf 3ms If he said this, 'The speckled will be your wages,' then all the flock bore speckled. If he said this, 'The streaked will be your wages,' then all the flock bore streaked.
- Genesis 31:11 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר וָ/אֹמַ֖ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 1cs The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'
- Genesis 31:12 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, 'Now lift up your eyes, and behold, all the male goats which leap on the flock are streaked, speckled, and grizzled, for I have seen all that Laban does to you.
- Genesis 31:14 וַ/תֹּאמַ֖רְנָה conj + Qal wimpf 3fp Rachel and Leah answered him, "Is there yet any portion or inheritance for us in our father's house?
- Genesis 31:16 אָמַ֧ר Qal pf 3ms For all the riches which God has taken away from our father, that is ours and our children's. Now then, whatever God has said to you, do."
- Genesis 31:24 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."
- Genesis 31:26 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Laban said to Jacob, "What have you done, that you have deceived me, and carried away my daughters like captives of the sword?
- Genesis 31:29 אָמַ֧ר לֵ/אמֹ֗ר Qal pf 3ms prep + Qal inf.cs It is in the power of my hand to hurt you, but the God of your father spoke to me last night, saying, 'Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad.'
- Genesis 31:31 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אָמַ֔רְתִּי conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 1cs Jacob answered Laban, "Because I was afraid, for I said, 'Lest you should take your daughters from me by force.'
- Genesis 31:35 וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She said to her father, "Don't let my lord be angry that I can't rise up before you; for the manner of women is on me." He searched, but didn't find the teraphim.
- Genesis 31:36 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob was angry, and argued with Laban. Jacob answered Laban, "What is my trespass? What is my sin, that you have hotly pursued after me?
- Genesis 31:43 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters, the children are my children, the flocks are my flocks, and all that you see is mine: and what can I do this day to these my daughters, or to their children whom they have borne?
- Genesis 31:46 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob said to his relatives, "Gather stones." They took stones, and made a heap. They ate there by the heap.
- Genesis 31:48 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Laban said, "This heap is witness between me and you this day." Therefore it was named Galeed
- Genesis 31:49 אָמַ֔ר Qal pf 3ms and Mizpah, for he said, "Yahweh watch between me and you, when we are absent one from another.
- Genesis 31:51 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Laban said to Jacob, "See this heap, and see the pillar, which I have set between me and you.
- Genesis 32:2 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When he saw them, Jacob said, "This is God's host." He called the name of that place Mahanaim.
- Genesis 32:4 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר תֹאמְר֔וּ/ן אָמַר֙ prep + Qal inf.cs Qal impf 2mp + sfx n Qal pf 3ms He commanded them, saying, "This is what you shall tell my lord, Esau: 'This is what your servant, Jacob, says. I have lived as a foreigner with Laban, and stayed until now.
- Genesis 32:6 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs The messengers returned to Jacob, saying, "We came to your brother Esau. Not only that, but he comes to meet you, and four hundred men with him."
- Genesis 32:8 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms and he said, "If Esau comes to the one company, and strikes it, then the company which is left will escape."
- Genesis 32:9 וַ/יֹּאמֶר֮ הָ/אֹמֵ֣ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms Jacob said, "God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, Yahweh, who said to me, 'Return to your country, and to your relatives, and I will do you good.'
- Genesis 32:12 אָמַ֔רְתָּ Qal pf 2ms You said, 'I will surely do you good, and make your seed as the sand of the sea, which can't be numbered because there are so many.'"
- Genesis 32:16 וַ֤/יֹּאמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He delivered them into the hands of his servants, every herd by itself, and said to his servants, "Pass over before me, and put a space between herd and herd."
- Genesis 32:17 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs prep + Qal inf.cs He commanded the foremost, saying, "When Esau, my brother, meets you, and asks you, saying, 'Whose are you? Where are you going? Whose are these before you?'
- Genesis 32:18 וְ/אָֽמַרְתָּ֙ conj + Qal wpf 2ms Then you shall say, 'They are your servant, Jacob's. It is a present sent to my lord, Esau. Behold, he also is behind us.'"
- Genesis 32:19 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs He commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the herds, saying, "This is how you shall speak to Esau, when you find him.
- Genesis 32:20 וַ/אֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם אָמַ֞ר conj + Qal wpf 2mp Qal pf 3ms You shall say, 'Not only that, but behold, your servant, Jacob, is behind us.'" For, he said, "I will appease him with the present that goes before me, and afterward I will see his face. Perhaps he will accept me."
- Genesis 32:26 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The man said, "Let me go, for the day breaks." Jacob said, "I won't let you go, unless you bless me."
- Genesis 32:27 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to him, "What is your name?" He said, "Jacob."
- Genesis 32:28 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר יֵאָמֵ֥ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Niphal impf 3ms He said, "Your name will no longer be called 'Jacob,' but, 'Israel,' for you have fought with God and with men, and have prevailed."
- Genesis 32:29 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob asked him, "Please tell me your name." He said, "Why is it that you ask what my name is?" He blessed him there.
- Genesis 33:5 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר וַ/יֹּאמַ֕ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
- Genesis 33:8 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Esau said, "What do you mean by all this company which I met?" Jacob said, "To find favor in the sight of my lord."
- Genesis 33:9 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Esau said, "I have enough, my brother; let that which you have be yours."
- Genesis 33:10 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob said, "Please, no, if I have now found favor in your sight, then receive my present at my hand, because I have seen your face, as one sees the face of God, and you were pleased with me.
- Genesis 33:12 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Esau said, "Let us take our journey, and let us go, and I will go before you."
- Genesis 33:13 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
- Genesis 33:15 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Esau said, "Let me now leave with you some of the folk who are with me." He said, "Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord."
- Genesis 34:4 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר לֵ/אמֹ֑ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms prep + Qal inf.cs Shechem spoke to his father, Hamor, saying, "Get me this young lady as a wife."
- Genesis 34:8 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs Hamor talked with them, saying, "The soul of my son, Shechem, longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as a wife.
- Genesis 34:11 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר תֹּאמְר֛וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal impf 2mp Shechem said to her father and to her brothers, "Let me find favor in your eyes, and whatever you will tell me I will give.
- Genesis 34:12 תֹּאמְר֖וּ Qal impf 2mp Ask me a great amount for a dowry, and I will give whatever you ask of me, but give me the young lady as a wife."
- Genesis 34:14 וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp and said to them, "We can't do this thing, to give our sister to one who is uncircumcised; for that is a reproach to us.
- Genesis 34:20 לֵ/אמֹֽר prep + Qal inf.cs Hamor and Shechem, his son, came to the gate of their city, and talked with the men of their city, saying,
- Genesis 34:30 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, "You have troubled me, to make me odious to the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanites and the Perizzites. I am few in number. They will gather themselves together against me and strike me, and I will be destroyed, I and my house."
- Genesis 34:31 וַ/יֹּאמְר֑וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said, "Should he deal with our sister as with a prostitute?"
- Genesis 35:1 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms God said to Jacob, "Arise, go up to Bethel, and live there. Make there an altar to God, who appeared to you when you fled from the face of Esau your brother."
- Genesis 35:2 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Jacob said to his household, and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods that are among you, purify yourselves, change your garments.
- Genesis 35:10 וַ/יֹּֽאמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms God said to him, "Your name is Jacob. Your name shall not be Jacob any more, but your name will be Israel." He named him Israel.
- Genesis 35:11 וַ/יֹּאמֶר֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms God said to him, "I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation and a company of nations will be from you, and kings will come out of your loins.
- Genesis 35:17 וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs It happened that, when she was in hard labor, that the midwife said to her, "Don't be afraid, for now you will have another son."
- Genesis 37:6 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to them, "Please hear this dream which I have dreamed:
- Genesis 37:8 וַ/יֹּ֤אמְרוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp His brothers said to him, "Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed have dominion over us?" They hated him all the more for his dreams and for his words.
- Genesis 37:9 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brothers, and said, "Behold, I have dreamed yet another dream: and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me."
- Genesis 37:10 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He told it to his father and to his brothers. His father rebuked him, and said to him, "What is this dream that you have dreamed? Will I and your mother and your brothers indeed come to bow ourselves down to you to the earth?"
- Genesis 37:13 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Israel said to Joseph, "Aren't your brothers feeding the flock in Shechem? Come, and I will send you to them." He said to him, "Here I am."
- Genesis 37:14 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to him, "Go now, see whether it is well with your brothers, and well with the flock; and bring me word again." So he sent him out of the valley of Hebron, and he came to Shechem.
- Genesis 37:15 לֵ/אמֹ֖ר prep + Qal inf.cs A certain man found him, and behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, "What are you looking for?"
- Genesis 37:16 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, "I am looking for my brothers. Tell me, please, where they are feeding the flock."
- Genesis 37:17 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר אֹֽמְרִ֔ים conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal ptcp.act mp The man said, "They have left here, for I heard them say, 'Let us go to Dothan.'" Joseph went after his brothers, and found them in Dothan.
- Genesis 37:19 וַ/יֹּאמְר֖וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said one to another, "Behold, this dreamer comes.
- Genesis 37:20 וְ/אָמַ֕רְנוּ conj + Qal wpf 1cp Come now therefore, and let's kill him, and cast him into one of the pits, and we will say, 'An evil animal has devoured him.' We will see what will become of his dreams."
- Genesis 37:21 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, "Let's not take his life."
- Genesis 37:22 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Reuben said to them, "Shed no blood. Throw him into this pit that is in the wilderness, but lay no hand on him"-- that he might deliver him out of their hand, to restore him to his father.
- Genesis 37:26 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Judah said to his brothers, "What profit is it if we kill our brother and conceal his blood?
- Genesis 37:30 וַ/יֹּאמַ֑ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"
- Genesis 37:32 וַ/יֹּאמְר֖וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They took the coat of many colors, and they brought it to their father, and said, "We have found this. Examine it, now, whether it is your son's coat or not."
- Genesis 37:33 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He recognized it, and said, "It is my son's coat. An evil animal has devoured him. Joseph is without doubt torn in pieces."
- Genesis 37:35 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
- Genesis 38:8 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife, and perform the duty of a husband's brother to her, and raise up seed to your brother."
- Genesis 38:11 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אָמַ֔ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3ms Then Judah said to Tamar, his daughter-in-law, "Remain a widow in your father's house, until Shelah, my son, is grown up;" for he said, "Lest he also die, like his brothers." Tamar went and lived in her father's house.
- Genesis 38:13 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs It was told Tamar, saying, "Behold, your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep."
- Genesis 38:16 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3fs He turned to her by the way, and said, "Please come, let me come in to you:" for he didn't know that she was his daughter-in-law. She said, "What will you give me, that you may come in to me?"
- Genesis 38:17 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר וַ/תֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3fs He said, "I will send you a kid of the goats from the flock." She said, "Will you give me a pledge, until you send it?"
- Genesis 38:18 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר וַ/תֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3fs He said, "What pledge will I give you?" She said, "Your signet and your cord, and your staff that is in your hand." He gave them to her, and came in to her, and she conceived by him.
- Genesis 38:21 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then he asked the men of her place, saying, "Where is the prostitute, that was at Enaim by the road?" They said, "There has been no prostitute here."
- Genesis 38:22 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר אָֽמְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3cp He returned to Judah, and said, "I haven't found her; and also the men of the place said, 'There has been no prostitute here.'"
- Genesis 38:23 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Judah said, "Let her keep it, lest we be shamed. Behold, I sent this kid, and you haven't found her."
- Genesis 38:24 לֵֽ/אמֹר֙ וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened about three months later, that it was told Judah, saying, "Tamar, your daughter-in-law, has played the prostitute; and moreover, behold, she is with child by prostitution." Judah said, "Bring her forth, and let her be burnt."
- Genesis 38:25 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wimpf 3fs When she was brought forth, she sent to her father-in-law, saying, "By the man, whose these are, I am with child." She also said, "Please discern whose are these-- the signet, and the cords, and the staff."
- Genesis 38:26 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Judah acknowledged them, and said, "She is more righteous than I, because I didn't give her to Shelah, my son." He knew her again no more.
- Genesis 38:28 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs It happened, when she travailed, that one put out a hand: and the midwife took and tied a scarlet thread on his hand, saying, "This came out first."
- Genesis 38:29 וַ/תֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs It happened, as he drew back his hand, that behold, his brother came out, and she said, "Why have you made a breach for yourself?" Therefore his name was called Perez.
- Genesis 39:7 וַ/תֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs It happened after these things, that his master's wife cast her eyes on Joseph; and she said, "Lie with me."
- Genesis 39:8 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms But he refused, and said to his master's wife, "Behold, my master doesn't know what is with me in the house, and he has put all that he has into my hand.
- Genesis 39:12 לֵ/אמֹ֖ר prep + Qal inf.cs She caught him by his garment, saying, "Lie with me!" He left his garment in her hand, and ran outside.
- Genesis 39:14 וַ/תֹּ֤אמֶר לֵ/אמֹ֔ר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs prep + Qal inf.cs that she called to the men of her house, and spoke to them, saying, "Behold, he has brought in a Hebrew to us to mock us. He came in to me to lie with me, and I cried with a loud voice.
- Genesis 39:17 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs She spoke to him according to these words, saying, "The Hebrew servant, whom you have brought to us, came in to me to mock me,
- Genesis 39:19 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs It happened, when his master heard the words of his wife, which she spoke to him, saying, "This is what your servant did to me," that his wrath was kindled.
- Genesis 40:7 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs He asked Pharaoh's officers who were with him in custody in his master's house, saying, "Why do you look so sad today?"
- Genesis 40:8 וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3ms They said to him, "We have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it." Joseph said to them, "Don't interpretations belong to God? Please tell it to me."
- Genesis 40:9 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The chief cupbearer told his dream to Joseph, and said to him, "In my dream, behold, a vine was in front of me,
- Genesis 40:12 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Joseph said to him, "This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days.
- Genesis 40:16 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When the chief baker saw that the interpretation was good, he said to Joseph, "I also was in my dream, and, behold, three baskets of white bread were on my head.
- Genesis 40:18 וַ/יֹּ֔אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Joseph answered, "This is the interpretation of it. The three baskets are three days.
- Genesis 41:9 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs Then the chief cupbearer spoke to Pharaoh, saying, "I remember my faults today.
- Genesis 41:15 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר לֵ/אמֹ֔ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms prep + Qal inf.cs Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I have dreamed a dream, and there is no one who can interpret it. I have heard it said of you, that when you hear a dream you can interpret it."
- Genesis 41:16 לֵ/אמֹ֖ר prep + Qal inf.cs Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, "It isn't in me. God will give Pharaoh an answer of peace."
- Genesis 41:24 וָֽ/אֹמַר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 1cs The thin heads of grain swallowed up the seven good heads of grain. I told it to the magicians; but there was no one who could explain it to me."
- Genesis 41:25 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Joseph said to Pharaoh, "The dream of Pharaoh is one. What God is about to do he has declared to Pharaoh.
- Genesis 41:38 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Pharaoh said to his servants, "Can we find such a one as this, a man in whom is the Spirit of God?"
- Genesis 41:39 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Because God has shown you all of this, there is none so discreet and wise as you.
- Genesis 41:41 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Pharaoh said to Joseph, "Behold, I have set you over all the land of Egypt."
- Genesis 41:44 וַ/יֹּ֧אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Pharaoh said to Joseph, "I am Pharaoh, and without you shall no man lift up his hand or his foot in all the land of Egypt."
- Genesis 41:54 אָמַ֣ר Qal pf 3ms The seven years of famine began to come, just as Joseph had said. There was famine in all lands, but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.
- Genesis 41:55 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר יֹאמַ֥ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal impf 3ms When all the land of Egypt was famished, the people cried to Pharaoh for bread, and Pharaoh said to all the Egyptians, "Go to Joseph. What he says to you, do."
- Genesis 42:1 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Now Jacob saw that there was grain in Egypt, and Jacob said to his sons, "Why do you look at one another?"
- Genesis 42:2 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."
- Genesis 42:4 אָמַ֔ר Qal pf 3ms But Jacob didn't send Benjamin, Joseph's brother, with his brothers; for he said, "Lest perhaps harm happen to him."
- Genesis 42:7 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Joseph saw his brothers, and he recognized them, but acted like a stranger to them, and spoke roughly with them. He said to them, "Where did you come from?" They said, "From the land of Canaan to buy food."
- Genesis 42:9 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed about them, and said to them, "You are spies! You have come to see the nakedness of the land."
- Genesis 42:10 וַ/יֹּאמְר֥וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said to him, "No, my lord, but your servants have come to buy food.
- Genesis 42:12 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to them, "No, but you have come to see the nakedness of the land."
- Genesis 42:13 וַ/יֹּאמְר֗וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said, "We, your servants, are twelve brothers, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is no more."
- Genesis 42:14 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר לֵ/אמֹ֖ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms prep + Qal inf.cs Joseph said to them, "It is like I told you, saying, 'You are spies.'
- Genesis 42:18 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Joseph said to them the third day, "Do this, and live, for I fear God.
- Genesis 42:21 וַ/יֹּאמְר֞וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said one to another, "We are most assuredly guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the distress of his soul, when he begged us, and we wouldn't listen. Therefore this distress has come on us."
- Genesis 42:22 לֵ/אמֹ֗ר אָמַ֨רְתִּי לֵ/אמֹ֛ר prep + Qal inf.cs Qal pf 1cs prep + Qal inf.cs Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."
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The Hebrew verb אמר centers on the idea of “to say.” One archaism survives in the King James Version — “saith” — where modern Bibles read “said”; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 4,336 verses in 39 books, it ranks among the most common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 1:3. Different stems carry different senses — BDB groups them under 4 stems, among them Qal and Niphal. Dig into 4,336-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
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Strong's · 1890
answer
Modern gloss
to say
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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Strong's H559 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4,336
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4,336 distinct verses.
- 39 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 39 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #7
- by frequency
- Top 10 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 7 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4,336 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2,521 verses · 58%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1,175 verses · 27%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 640 verses · 15%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Said 1,837×, Saying 793×, Saith 467×
- American Standard Version: Said 1,687×, Saying 689×, He said 416×
- Berean Standard Bible: Said 1,107×, Says 559×, Saying 313×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Said 1,617×, And 929×, Saying 867×
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Renders H559 across 5,308 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 365 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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Renders H559 across 5,297 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 419 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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Renders H559 across 4,549 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 401 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 754 further occurrences.
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Renders H559 across 6,405 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 130 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
8 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Hithpael (reflexive or reciprocal).
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 8 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. א׳ Gn 3:1 +, etc.; Impf. יֹאמַר Gn 31:8 +; וַיֹּא֫מֶר Gn 1:3 +; וַיֹּאמַ֑ר Gn 14:19 +; in Jb always וַיֹּא֑מַר Jb 3:2 +; 3 fs. תֹּאמַר Gn 21:12 +; תֹּאמֵ֑ר Pr 1:21; 1 s. אֹמַר Gn 22:2 +; אוֹמְרָה ψ 42:10; וָאֹמַר Gn 20:13 +; וָאוֹמַר Ne 2:7, 17, 20; 3 m. pl. יֹאמְרוּ Ex 4:1 + etc.; sf. יֹמְרוּךָ ψ 139:20; 2 mpl. תֹּמְרוּ 2 S 19:14 (cf. Köi. p. 385); Imv. אֱמֹר (אֱמָר־) Gn 45:17 +, etc.; Inf. abs. אָמוֹר Ex 21:5 +; cstr. אֱמֹר Ez 25:8 +; (הַ)אֲמֹר Jb 34:18 but read הָאֹמֵר 𝔊 𝔙 Di, or better הֶאָמֹר Inf. abs. c. ה interrog. cf. Ew§ 328 d; sf. אָמְרִי Jos 6:10 +; אֲמָרְכֶם Je 23:38; אֱמָרְכֶם Mal 1:7 +; לֵאמֹר Gn 1:22 +, etc.; Pt; act. אֹמֵר Gn 32:10 +, etc.; pass. הֶאָמוּר Mi 2:7, but this grammatically indefensible, read הֶאָמוֹר, Inf. abs. c. ה interrog., v. DrExpositor, April, 1887, 263. e.g. Genesis 3:1
- 1. Say (subj. God Gn 3:1 + or man 32:5, serpent 3:1, ass Nu 22:28, horse יֹאמַר הֶאָח Jb 39:25 etc.; inanimate things, personif. Jb 28:14 cf. v 22 etc.; so in allegory or fable Ju 9:8 2 K 14:9 etc.; especially in narrat., וַיֹּאמֶר etc., Gn 4:6 + very often): mostly sq. thing said, either subst. Je 14:17 (c. cl. app.) Dt 27:16 f. Ju 12:6; pronoun Gn 44:16 2 K 20:14 +; or (usually) clause Gn 1:3; 3:1; 37:20 + often (orat. recta); with adv. thus, so Gn 32:5 Nu 20:14 1 K 20:3, 5 +; especially כֹּה אָמַר י׳ Ex 5:1; 7:17, 26; 8:16; 1 Ch 17:4 + often; the person addressed usually introduced by אֶל Gn 3:1; 15:7; 22:7; Lv 21:1; 2 S 3:7; 1 K 12:5, 23, or לְ Gn 3:13; 4:15; 1 S 20:2; 2 S 2:21; 1 K 14:2 + often; rarer combinations are, א׳ בְּאָזְנֵי Is 49:20 (cf. 5:9 & vid. דבר); א׳ לִפְנֵי Ez 28:9; א׳ לְעֵינֵי Dt 31:7; Jos 10:12; Je 28:11; א׳ בְּ Jo 2:17 ψ 126:2, where בְּ local; in all cases usually sq. dir. obj. of words said, Ex 19:25; Ju 17:2 being singular; Gn 4:8 the object-clause has probably fallen out, cf. Vrss Di; = mention, name, designate Gn 22:2, 3; 43:27, 29 Ex 32:13; Nu 14:40; 1 S 10:16; 16:3; 2 S 6:22 Ne 6:19; cf. ψ 139:20 יֹמְרוּךָ לִמְזִמָּה speak of thee for falsehood (but many, as Hup Pe Dy Che, read יַמְרוּךָ); = tell, declare, proclaim (sq. dir. obj. only) ψ 40:11; Ez 13:7; in reply to question = answer Ex 12:27; Jos 4:7; 1 K 9:9; Je 5:19; 22:9. The obj. spoken of may be referred to by אֶל 2 K 19:32; Je 22:18; 27:19, or לְ Gn 20:13 אִמְרִי לִי say of me, etc. Dt 33:9; Ju 9:54; Is 5:20 ψ 3:3; 71:10, very rarely by a simple accus. Is 3:10 (where read prob. for אִמְרוּ, אַשְׁרֵי), except after אֲשֶׁר where the words used follow (cf. אֲשֶׁר 4 d) Gn 3:17; Nu 10:29; 14:31 Dt 28:68; Ju 7:4; 1 S 9:17, 23b; 1 K 8:29; La 4:20; cf. Nu 21:16; 2 K 17:12; 21:4, & (two extreme cases) Is 8:12; La 2:15 (v. DrSm i. 25, 5); הֶֽאָמוּר Mi 2:7 read inf. abs. c. ה interrog. הֶאָמוֹר (v. supr.) shall one say? shall it be said? After another vb. of saying, introducing thing said: Dt 21:7; 25:9; 27:15; Ct 2:10 +, even after אמר Gn 22:7; Lv 21:1; Je 34:2; Est 7:5 +; especially inf. לֵאמֹר, after דבר Gn 8:15, צוה 2:16; 3:17, ענה 41:16, ברך 1:22, נשׁבע 24:7, נדר 28:20, etc.; after אמר 2 S 3:18; 1 K 12:23; 1 Ch 21:18 +; after שׁלח 2 Ch 35:21 שׁוּב Gn 32:7; cf. also Gn 28:6 Ex 5:13; 9:5; 13:8; 17:4; Nu 11:20; Dt 1:28; 13:7; Ju 8:15; 1 S 23:2; 1 K 13:3; Je 32:3; 37:9; Ru 4:4 +; when subj. of לֵאמֹר differs from that of preceding clause Gn 31:1; 38:13, 24 etc.; after שׁמע Is 37:9 = 2 K 19:9. e.g. Genesis 3:1
- 2. Say in the heart (= think) א׳ בלבב Dt 8:17 cf. 1 K 12:26 ψ 10:6, 11, 13; 14:1; 35:25; Is 14:13; 47:8, 10; 49:21; Ec 2:1, 15; 3:17, 18; א׳ לִלְבָבָם Ho 7:2; א׳ אֶל־לִבּוֹ Gn 8:21 said unto his heart (to himself), subj. י׳, cf. 1 S 27:1; אָֽמְרָה נַפְשִׁי La 3:24; thence א׳ alone Gn 20:11; 26:9 Nu 24:11; Ru 4:4; 1 S 20:26; 2 S 5:6; 12:22; 2 K 5:11; Mal 1:7; with כִּי Ju 15:2; in particular = desire מַה־תֹּאמַר נַפְשְׁךָ 1 S 20:4 cf. Est 2:13; sq. inf. = purpose, Ex 2:14 thinkest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? Jos 22:33; 1 S 30:6; 1 K 5:19; 2 Ch 28:10, 13; expect 2 S 21:16 he expected to slay David 2 Ch 13:8; 32:1. e.g. Deuteronomy 8:17
- 3. Promise (sq. inf.) 1 Ch 27:23; 2 Ch 21:7; Est 4:7; (id. + ל of pers.) 2 K 8:19; Ne 9:15; (sq. acc. of dir. obj. + ל of pers. + inf. of purpose) Ne 9:23. e.g. 1 Chronicles 27:23
- 4. Command (especially late) sq. אֶל־ of person addressed, Nu 15:28; 1 Ch 21:18; sq. ל Jos 11:9; 2 S 16:11 2 K 4:24; Jb 9:7 ψ 106:24 (v. sub אֲשֶׁר 8 e); sq. inf. 1 S 24:11 1 Ch 21:17; 2 Ch 1:18; 29:27, 36; 31:11; 35:21 Est 1:17; 4:13, 15; 6:1; 9:14; inf. + ל of pers. 2 Ch 14:3; 29:21; 31:4; Ne 9:15; Est 1:10; sq. acc. dir. obj. 2 Ch 29:24 the king commanded the burnt-offering and the sin-offering, cf. 1 K 5:20; Est 2:15; sq. cl. with אשׁר = that Ne 13:19; id. + ל of pers. v 22; sq. cl. with כִּי Jb 36:10; abs. 1 S 16:16 (read however prob. יאמרו for יאמר, cf. Dr); also ψ 105:31, 34; 107:25; 1 Ch 14:12; 2 Ch 24:8; Ne 13:9, 19 (all sq. vb. consec.); command by leter א׳ עִם־הַסֵּפֶר Est 9:25 (sq. impf.); appoint, assign לֶחֶם א׳ לוֹ 1 K 11:18 = threaten sq. inf. Dt 9:25 ψ 106:23. e.g. Numbers 15:28
Niphal
- Pf. נֶאֱמַר Dn 8:26; Impf. יֵאָמֵר Gn 22:14 +; יֵאָ֫מֶר לוֹ Is 4:3; יֵאָמַ֑ר Gn 10:9 +; וַיֵּאָמַ֑ר Jos 2:2; be said, told Gn 10:9; 22:14 ψ 87:5; Je 4:11; 16:14 (all abs., indef. subj., of current saying); so said in a book Nu 21:14; be related, told, of vision Dn 8:26; said, told to (sq. ל ind. obj.) Jos 2:2; Ho 2:1(×2) Zp 3:16; either so, or told concerning Nu 23:23; Ez 13:12 (אֶל־); יֵאָמֵר לָכֶם = ye shall be called (it shall be said to you) Is 61:6 (‖ תִּקָּרֵ֔אוּ), cf. 4:3; 19:18; 32:5 (‖ יִקָּרֵא ל) 62:4(×2); hence be called, of Tophet לֹא־יֵאָמֵר עוֹד הַתֹּפֶת Je 7:32; subj. שֵׁם Gn 32:29; Jb 34:31 כִּי אֶל־אֵל חֶאָמַר, Rabb. (cf. AV) treat הֵאָמַר as Niph. Inf. for לְהֵאָמֵר, but against grammar; the form as it stands is Qal Pf., אֶל־אֵל being prefixed to the interrog. for emphasis (cf. Je 22:15; 23:26 Ne 13:27), v. Dr§ 9 Di al.; Hoffm., however, reads הֵאָמֵר inf. abs. = imv. ‘so must one speak (it be spoken) to God.’ e.g. Daniel 8:26
Hiphil
- Pf. avow, avouch Dt 26:17 אֶת־י׳ הֶאֱמַרְתָּ הַיּוֹם לִהְיוֹת לְךָ לֵאלֹהִים; v 18 וי׳ הֶאֱמִירְךָ היום להיות לוֹ לְעַם (lit. cause to declare, i.e. through agency of Moses; on this & other interpr. vid. Di). e.g. Deuteronomy 26:17
Hithpael
- Impf. יִתְאַמְּרוּ ψ 94:4 subj. כָּל־פֹּעֲלֵי אָ֑וֶן act proudly, boast (‖ יַבִּיעוּ יְדַבְּרוּ עָתָק); prob. also 2 mpl. תִּתְיַמָּ֑רוּ Is 61:6 (in good sense, sq. בְּ of thing gloried in) 𝔖 𝔙 𝔗 & cf. 𝔊; GesComm. so De Che Köi. 457 f. (from [ימר] exchange Thes Hi Kn Ew Di; but vid. ימר). e.g. Psalms 94:4
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. utter, say (MI Ph. אמר, Aramaic אֲמַר, Ethiopic አመረ I. 2 shew, declare, Arabic أَمَرَ command; perhaps √ אמר orig. = be or make prominent, hence Hithp. infr., אָמִיר; Sab. אמר lofty, epith. of king JHMordtmZMG 1876, 37; cf. DlPr 28 who thinks orig. meaning hell, sichtbar sein, whence Assyrian amâru, see & shew, declare, say)—
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Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אָמַר I
- (a) to join, knot; to be knotted, thick; b) to heap up; c) transf. to join words, compose, cmp. דבר; d) to contract, bargain, exchange. [As to Assyr. to see, cmp. חמא.])
- 1. to speak, think, say, relate &c. … א׳ ר׳ … א׳ ר׳ Rabbi … related in the name of R. … Ber. 3ᵇ; a. v. fr.—Part. pass. אָמוּר expression. Yoma 70ᵇ, a. fr. הוא הא׳ וכ׳ it is the same expression (‘one ram’) used here and in the Book of Numbers. Sifré Deut. s. 334, a. fr. אֱמוֹר מעתה say from now, i.e. from this draw the conclusion. Gen. R. s. 39 תאמר שהבירה וכ׳ (usu. שמא תאמר) will you say (is it possible), this castle has no commander?—אֲמוּרִים דברים במה (abbr. בד׳'א) in what case are these words said? i.e. this applies only. Ḥull. 3ᵃ; a. fr.—זאת אוֹמֶרֶת this tells, i.e. this proves. Ber. 11ᵇ; a. fr.—אָמְרוּ it is said, told &c.; v. next w.—Inf. לוֹמַר = לֵאמֹר. Ḥag. 14ᵇ; a. fr.
- 2. to vow, devote. אָמוּר (לגבוה) devoted to the Lord. Succ. 55ᵇ; v. אֲמִירָה I, 3, a. אֵימוּרִים.
- (b. h.) to be said, to read … נא׳ כאן … ונ׳ להלן we read here … and we read there … (the same expression is used here and there in the Scriptural text). Ber. 9ᵃ; a. v. fr.—שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר (abbr. שנ׳, שנא׳) for it is said in the Scriptures (as evidence in favor of an opinion). Snh. X, 1; a. v. fr.; also כמה שנ׳ (כמו) as it is said.—מִשּׁוּם שנ׳ because it is said in the Scriptures, i.e. you may possibly be misled by a certain expression to think …, therefore another term is used in its stead in an analogous case, or added to the ambiguous word; v. שׁוּם.
אֲמַר
- 1) as preced. 1). Targ. Gen. I, 3; a. v. fr.—א׳ מר above you quoted an authority, or, it has been stated. Ber. 2ᵃ; a. fr.—א׳ קרא the Scripture says. Ib. 13ᵃ; a. fr.—Y. Orl. III, end, 63ᵇ, a. fr. אמרונה בשם … (in Bab. heb. אֲמָרוּהָ) they said it in behalf of … i.e. as a tradition.—Y. Ber. I, 2ᵈ מילתיה אמרה his word (statement, opinion &c.) proves.—הדא אמרה = זאת אומרת; v. preced.—אַמְרֵי (h. אָמְרוּ) they say, it is said. Sabb. 19ᵃ אמרו עליו על … ואמרי לה וכ׳ it is told about R. …, and another relation refers this to R.—; a. fr.—קאמר, קאמרי &c. = קא אמר &c. Ḥull. 85ᵃ; a. fr.—מנא תימרא whence dost thou prove? Sabb. 23ᵃ; a. fr.—Inf. מֵימַר, מֵימְרָא. סבר מ׳, סבר למ׳ originally he was of the opinion. Y. Sabb. VI, 8ᶜ top; Keth. 87ᵇ; a. v. fr.—לְמֵימְרָא does this mean to say? Sabb. 15ᵇ; a. fr. לא אמרן אלא … אבל … this has been said, i.e. this applies only to a case … but if … Ber. 43ᵇ; a. fr.—כְּלוֹמַר as if saying, meaning to say, viz; v. כִּילּוּ.—Y. Kil. IV, 32ᶜ bot. אימורין לבני וכ׳ say ye to &c.—מאי איכא למימר, v. אִיכָּא; Answ. אֵימוּר say … Sabb. 6ᵃ; a. fr.—Hor. 13ᵃ א׳ כולה who orders every thing (as an etymol. of אֲמַרְכָּל).—2) to praise, proclaim. Targ. Is. VIII, 13; a. fr.—Part. pass. אָמִיר q. v.
- , contr. אִתְּמַר, אִיתְּ׳ it is said, taught. Targ. Job XXXIV, 31.—Y. Yoma V, end, 43ᵃ אתאמרת, contr. אִתַּמְרַת it has been said with refer. to the opinion of …—אִתְּ׳, אִיתְּ׳ it has been said (above);we have been taught. Succ. 15ᵃ; a. fr.
- same. Targ. Gen. XXII, 14; a. e.
אָמַר II
- , v. אָמַר I, a) to be thick, strong.
- 1. to thrive; to boast, vaunt, be oppressive (cmp. Ps. XCIV, 4). Sot. IX, 15 (49ᵇ) יוקר יַאֲמִיר the nobility shall be oppressive (Snh. 97ᵃ יְעַוֵּת; Der. Er. Zut. X יעוות; Cant. R. to II, 13 הווה).—*[ e.g. Psalms 94:4
- 2. (denom. of מריא to fatten. Sabb. XXIV, 3 (155ᵇ) Bab. מַאֲמִירִין, Ms. Oxf., Mish. a. Y. מַמְרִים, מַמְרִין, v. מרי.]
אֵמֶר
- , v. אֵימַר a. אִמְרָה.
אִמַּר
- lamb, v. אִימַּר.
מְרַר
- same, to be bitter; to grieve, mourn. Perf. מַר, imperf. יֵימַר, יֵמַר. Targ. Is. XXIV, 9. Targ. I Sam. XXX, 6; a. fr.—Targ. Zech. XII, 10 ויֵימְרוּן, v. infra.
- to embitter, aggrieve. Targ. Ruth I, 13 תְמָרְרוּן (ed. Amst. תִמְרְ׳). Targ. Y. I Deut. XXXII, 32 מְמַרְרִין (some ed. מְמַרְרַן; Y. II מַרְרַן).
- 1. same. Targ. Ruth I, 20 (not same. Targ. Ruth I, 20 (not אֲמַרִ׳). Targ. Ex. I, 14; a. e.
- 2. to arrange mourning. Targ. Zech. XII, 10 ויימרון … כמא דמַמְרִין וכ׳ they shall arrange mourning for him, as is arranged for &c. (v. infra).—[אָמְרָרוּ, v. Ithpa.]
- to aggrieve. Targ. Prov. XVII, 25. Targ. Y. I Gen. XLIX, 23 ממרירו, read: מַרְמִירוּ; (Y. II אֲמָרוּ, read: אַמָּ׳ Af.).
- 1. to be enraged, fight. Targ. O. Gen. l. c. (Var. אָמְרָרוּ, v. Berl. Targ. O. II, p. 18; oth. ed. אַמְרָרוּ Af.).
- 2. to mourn. Targ. Zech. l. c. Var. (v. Lag. Proph. I, p. XLII).
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Forms in the corpus
The 578 distinct written forms H559 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 518 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H559, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
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Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 4 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
Most of the 4,336 Hebrew verses this word occurs in also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), so the same passages can be read in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 1:3
- Exodus 1:9
- Leviticus 1:1
- Numbers 1:1
- Deuteronomy 1:5
- Joshua 1:1
- Judges 1:1
- Ruth 1:8
- 1 Samuel 1:8
- 2 Samuel 1:3
- 1 Kings 1:2
- 2 Kings 1:2
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
