אָמַר

Malachi

• Malachi 1:2 אָמַ֣ר וַ/אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם Qal pf 3ms conj + Qal pf 2mp "I have loved you," says Yahweh. Yet you say, "How have you loved us?" "Wasn't Esau Jacob's brother?" says Yahweh, "Yet I loved Jacob;
• Malachi 1:4 תֹאמַ֨ר אָמַר֙ Qal impf 3fs Qal pf 3ms Whereas Edom says, "We are beaten down, but we will return and build the waste places;" thus says Yahweh of Hosts, "They shall build, but I will throw down; and men will call them 'The Wicked Land,' even the people against whom Yahweh shows wrath forever."
• Malachi 1:5 תֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ Qal impf 2mp Your eyes will see, and you will say, "Yahweh is great--even beyond the border of Israel!"
• Malachi 1:6 אָמַ֣ר וַ/אֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם Qal pf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 2mp "A son honors his father, and a servant his master. If I am a father, then where is my honor? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? Says Yahweh of Hosts to you, priests, who despise my name. You say, 'How have we despised your name?'
• Malachi 1:7 וַ/אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם בֶּ/אֱמָרְ/כֶ֕ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2mp You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, 'How have we polluted you?' In that you say, 'Yahweh's table contemptible.'
• Malachi 1:8 אָמַ֖ר Qal pf 3ms When you offer the blind for sacrifice, isn't that evil? And when you offer the lame and sick, isn't that evil? Present it now to your governor! Will he be pleased with you? Or will he accept your person?" says Yahweh of Hosts.
• Malachi 1:9 אָמַ֖ר Qal pf 3ms "Now, please entreat the favor of God, that he may be gracious to us. With this, will he accept any of you?" says Yahweh of Hosts.
• Malachi 1:10 אָמַר֙ Qal pf 3ms "Oh that there were one among you who would shut the doors, that you might not kindle fire on my altar in vain! I have no pleasure in you," says Yahweh of hosts, "neither will I accept an offering at your hand.
• Malachi 1:11 אָמַ֖ר Qal pf 3ms For from the rising of the sun even to the going down of the same, my name is great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering: for my name is great among the nations," says Yahweh of Hosts.
• Malachi 1:12 בֶּ/אֱמָרְ/כֶ֗ם prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2mp "But you profane it, in that you say, 'Yahweh's table is polluted, and its fruit, even its food, is contemptible.'
• Malachi 1:13 וַ/אֲמַרְתֶּם֩ אָמַר֙ אָמַ֥ר conj + Qal wpf 2mp Qal pf 3ms Qal pf 3ms You say also, 'Behold, what a weariness it is!' and you have sniffed at it," says Yahweh of Hosts; "and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?" says Yahweh.
• Malachi 1:14 אָמַר֙ Qal pf 3ms "But the deceiver is cursed, who has in his flock a male, and vows, and sacrifices to the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King," says Yahweh of hosts, "and my name is awesome among the nations."
• Malachi 2:2 אָמַר֙ Qal pf 3ms If you will not listen, and if you will not lay it to heart, to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of Hosts, "then will I send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings. Indeed, I have cursed them already, because you do not lay it to heart.
• Malachi 2:4 אָמַ֖ר Qal pf 3ms You will know that I have sent this commandment to you, that my covenant may be with Levi," says Yahweh of Hosts.
• Malachi 2:8 אָמַ֖ר Qal pf 3ms But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Hosts.
• Malachi 2:14 וַ/אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp Yet you say, 'Why?' Because Yahweh has been witness between you and the wife of your youth, against whom you have dealt treacherously, though she is your companion, and the wife of your covenant.
• Malachi 2:16 אָמַ֤ר אָמַ֖ר Qal pf 3ms Qal pf 3ms For I hate divorce," says Yahweh, the God of Israel, "and him who covers his garment with violence!' says Yahweh of Hosts. "Therefore take heed to your spirit, that you don't deal treacherously.
• Malachi 2:17 וַ/אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם בֶּ/אֱמָרְ/כֶ֗ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 2mp You have wearied Yahweh with your words. Yet you say, 'How have we wearied him?' In that you say, 'Everyone who does evil is good in the sight of Yahweh, and he delights in them;' or 'Where is the God of justice?'
• Malachi 3:1 אָמַ֖ר Qal pf 3ms "Behold, I send my messenger, and he will prepare the way before me; and the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to his temple; and the messenger of the covenant, whom you desire, behold, he comes!" says Yahweh of hosts.
• Malachi 3:5 אָמַ֖ר Qal pf 3ms I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don't fear me," says Yahweh of Hosts.
• Malachi 3:7 אָמַ֖ר וַ/אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם Qal pf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 2mp From the days of your fathers you have turned aside from my ordinances, and have not kept them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says Yahweh of Hosts. "But you say, 'How shall we return?'
• Malachi 3:8 וַ/אֲמַרְתֶּ֖ם conj + Qal wpf 2mp Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me! But you say, 'How have we robbed you?' In tithes and offerings.
• Malachi 3:10 אָמַ֖ר Qal pf 3ms Bring the whole tithe into the store-house, that there may be food in my house, and test me now in this," says Yahweh of hosts, "if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough for.
• Malachi 3:11 אָמַ֖ר Qal pf 3ms I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field," says Yahweh of Hosts.
• Malachi 3:12 אָמַ֖ר Qal pf 3ms "All nations shall call you blessed, for you will be a delightful land," says Yahweh of Hosts.
• Malachi 3:13 אָמַ֣ר וַ/אֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם Qal pf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 2mp "Your words have been stout against me," says Yahweh. "Yet you say, 'What have we spoken against you?'
• Malachi 3:14 אֲמַרְתֶּ֕ם Qal pf 2mp You have said, 'It is vain to serve God;' and 'What profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Yahweh of Hosts?
• Malachi 3:17 אָמַר֙ Qal pf 3ms They shall be mine," says Yahweh of Hosts, "my own possession in the day that I make, and I will spare them, as a man spares his own son who serves him.
• Malachi 4:1 אָמַר֙ Qal pf 3ms "For, behold, the day comes, it burns as a furnace; and all the proud, and all who work wickedness, will be stubble; and the day that comes will burn them up," says Yahweh of Hosts, "that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.
• Malachi 4:3 אָמַ֖ר Qal pf 3ms You shall tread down the wicked; for they will be ashes under the soles of your feet in the day that I make," says Yahweh of Hosts.