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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Judges 221 verses
- Judges 13:8 וַ/יֹּאמַ֑ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Manoah entreated Yahweh, and said, Oh, Lord, please let the man of God whom you did send come again to us, and teach us what we shall do to the child who shall be born.
- Judges 13:10 וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs The woman made haste, and ran, and told her husband, and said to him, Behold, the man has appeared to me, who came to me the [other] day.
- Judges 13:11 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Manoah arose, and went after his wife, and came to the man, and said to him, Are you the man who spoke to the woman? He said, I am.
- Judges 13:12 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Manoah said, Now let your words happen: what shall be the ordering of the child, and [how] shall we do to him?
- Judges 13:13 וַ/יֹּ֛אמֶר אָמַ֥רְתִּי conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 1cs The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Of all that I said to the woman let her beware.
- Judges 13:15 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, I pray you, let us detain you, that we may make ready a kid for you.
- Judges 13:16 וַ/יֹּאמֶר֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The angel of Yahweh said to Manoah, Though you detain me, I won't eat of your bread; and if you will make ready a burnt offering, you must offer it to Yahweh. For Manoah didn't know that he was the angel of Yahweh.
- Judges 13:17 וַ/יֹּ֧אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Manoah said to the angel of Yahweh, What is your name, that when your words happen, we may honor you?
- Judges 13:18 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The angel of Yahweh said to him, Why do you ask after my name, seeing it is wonderful?
- Judges 13:22 וַ/יֹּ֧אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Manoah said to his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.
- Judges 13:23 וַ/תֹּ֧אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs But his wife said to him, If Yahweh were pleased to kill us, he wouldn't have received a burnt offering and a meal-offering at our hand, neither would he have shown us all these things, nor would at this time have told such things as these.
- Judges 14:2 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He came up, and told his father and his mother, and said, I have seen a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines: now therefore get her for me as wife.
- Judges 14:3 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then his father and his mother said to him, Is there never a woman among the daughters of your brothers, or among all my people, that you go to take a wife of the uncircumcised Philistines? Samson said to his father, Get her for me; for she pleases me well.
- Judges 14:12 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samson said to them, Let me now put forth a riddle to you: if you can declare it to me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;
- Judges 14:13 וַ/יֹּ֣אמְרוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp but if you can't declare it to me, then shall you give me thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing. They said to him, Put forth your riddle, that we may hear it.
- Judges 14:14 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to them, Out of the eater came forth food, Out of the strong came forth sweetness. They couldn't in three days declare the riddle.
- Judges 14:15 וַ/יֹּאמְר֤וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp It happened on the seventh day, that they said to Samson's wife, Entice your husband, that he may declare to us the riddle, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire: have you called us to impoverish us? is it not [so]?
- Judges 14:16 וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samson's wife wept before him, and said, You do but hate me, and don't love me: you have put forth a riddle to the children of my people, and haven't told it me. He said to her, Behold, I haven't told it my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?
- Judges 14:18 וַ/יֹּ֣אמְרוּ וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, What is sweeter than honey? and what is stronger than a lion? He said to them, If you hadn't plowed with my heifer, You wouldn't have found out my riddle.
- Judges 15:1 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms But it happened after a while, in the time of wheat harvest, that Samson visited his wife with a kid; and he said, I will go in to my wife into the chamber. But her father wouldn't allow him to go in.
- Judges 15:2 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אָמֹ֤ר אָמַ֨רְתִּי֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal inf.abs Qal pf 1cs Her father said, I most assuredly thought that you had utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to your companion: isn't her younger sister more beautiful than she? Please take her, instead.
- Judges 15:3 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samson said to them, This time shall I be blameless in regard of the Philistines, when I do them a mischief.
- Judges 15:6 וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ וַ/יֹּאמְר֗וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then the Philistines said, Who has done this? They said, Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because he has taken his wife, and given her to his companion. The Philistines came up, and burnt her and her father with fire.
- Judges 15:7 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samson said to them, If you do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.
- Judges 15:10 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ וַ/יֹּאמְר֗וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The men of Judah said, Why are you come up against us? They said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he has done to us.
- Judges 15:11 וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
- Judges 15:12 וַ/יֹּ֤אמְרוּ וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3ms They said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves.
- Judges 15:13 וַ/יֹּ֧אמְרוּ לֵ/אמֹ֗ר conj + Qal wimpf 3mp prep + Qal inf.cs They spoke to him, saying, No; but we will bind you fast, and deliver you into their hand: but surely we will not kill you. They bound him with two new ropes, and brought him up from the rock.
- Judges 15:16 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samson said, With the jawbone of a donkey, heaps on heaps, With the jawbone of a donkey I have struck a thousand men.
- Judges 15:18 וַ/יֹּאמַ֔ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He was very thirsty, and called on Yahweh, and said, You have given this great deliverance by the hand of your servant; and now shall I die for thirst, and fall into the hand of the uncircumcised.
- Judges 16:2 לֵ/אמֹ֗ר לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs prep + Qal inf.cs [It was told] the Gazites, saying, Samson is come here. They compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, [Let be] until morning light, then we will kill him.
- Judges 16:5 וַ/יֹּ֨אמְרוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The lords of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Entice him, and see in which his great strength lies, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will each give you of us eleven hundred [pieces] of silver.
- Judges 16:6 וַ/תֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, Please, in which your great strength lies, and with which you might be bound to afflict you.
- Judges 16:7 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samson said to her, If they bind me with seven green cords that were never dried, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.
- Judges 16:9 וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Now she had liers-in-wait abiding in the inner chamber. She said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He broke the cords, as a string of tow is broken when it touches the fire. So his strength was not known.
- Judges 16:10 וַ/תֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Delilah said to Samson, Behold, you have mocked me, and told me lies: now tell me, Please, with which you might be bound.
- Judges 16:11 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to her, If they only bind me with new ropes with which no work has been done, then shall I become weak, and be as another man.
- Judges 16:12 וַ/תֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs So Delilah took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. The liers-in-wait were abiding in the inner chamber. He broke them off his arms like a thread.
- Judges 16:13 וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Delilah said to Samson, Hitherto you have mocked me, and told me lies: tell me with which you might be bound. He said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.
- Judges 16:14 וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.
- Judges 16:15 וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר תֹּאמַ֣ר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Qal impf 2ms She said to him, How can you say, I love you, when your heart is not with me? you have mocked me these three times, and have not told me in which your great strength lies.
- Judges 16:17 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He told her all his heart, and said to her, "No razor has ever come on my head; for I have been a Nazirite to God from my mother's womb. If I am shaved, then my strength will go from me, and I will become weak, and be like any other man."
- Judges 16:18 לֵ/אמֹר֙ prep + Qal inf.cs When Delilah saw that he had told her all his heart, she sent and called for the lords of the Philistines, saying, Come up this once, for he has told me all his heart. Then the lords of the Philistines came up to her, and brought the money in their hand.
- Judges 16:20 וַ/תֹּ֕אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3fs conj + Qal wimpf 3ms She said, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times, and shake myself free. But he didn't know that Yahweh had departed from him.
- Judges 16:23 וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The lords of the Philistines gathered them together to offer a great sacrifice to Dagon their god, and to rejoice; for they said, Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hand.
- Judges 16:24 אָמְר֗וּ Qal pf 3cp When the people saw him, they praised their god; for they said, Our god has delivered into our hand our enemy, and the destroyer of our country, who has slain many of us.
- Judges 16:25 וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp It happened, when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. They called for Samson out of the prison-house; and he made sport before them. They set him between the pillars:
- Judges 16:26 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms and Samson said to the boy who held him by the hand, Allow me that I may feel the pillars whereupon the house rests, that I may lean on them.
- Judges 16:28 וַ/יֹּאמַ֑ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samson called to Yahweh, and said, Lord Yahweh, remember me, Please, and strengthen me, Please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.
- Judges 16:30 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samson said, Let me die with the Philistines. He bowed himself with all his might; and the house fell on the lords, and on all the people who were therein. So the dead that he killed at his death were more than those who he killed in his life.
- Judges 17:2 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אָמַ֣רְתְּ וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 2fs conj + Qal wimpf 3fs He said to his mother, The eleven hundred [pieces] of silver that were taken from you, about which you did utter a curse, and did also speak it in my ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. His mother said, Blessed be my son of Yahweh.
- Judges 17:3 וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs He restored the eleven hundred [pieces] of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I most assuredly dedicate the silver to Yahweh from my hand for my son, to make an engraved image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to you.
- Judges 17:9 וַ/יֹּאמֶר וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Micah said to him, Whence come you? He said to him, I am a Levite of Bethlehem Judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find [a place].
- Judges 17:10 וַ/יֹּאמֶר֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Micah said to him, Dwell with me, and be to me a father and a priest, and I will give you ten [pieces] of silver by the year, and a suit of clothing, and your food. So the Levite went in.
- Judges 17:13 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then said Micah, Now know I that Yahweh will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.
- Judges 18:2 וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said to them, Go, search the land. They came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, and lodged there.
- Judges 18:3 וַ/יֹּ֤אמְרוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside there, and said to him, Who brought you here? and what do you in this place? and what have you here?
- Judges 18:4 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to them, Thus and thus has Micah dealt with me, and he has hired me, and I am become his priest.
- Judges 18:5 וַ/יֹּ֥אמְרוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said to him, Ask counsel, we pray you, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.
- Judges 18:6 וַ/יֹּ֧אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The priest said to them, Go in peace: before Yahweh is your way wherein you go.
- Judges 18:8 וַ/יֹּאמְר֥וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They came to their brothers to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brothers said to them, What [say] you?
- Judges 18:9 וַ/יֹּאמְר֗וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said, Arise, and let us go up against them; for we have seen the land, and, behold, it is very good: and are you still? don't be slothful to go and to enter in to possess the land.
- Judges 18:14 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Laish answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.
- Judges 18:18 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When these went into Micah's house, and fetched the engraved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image, the priest said to them, What do you?
- Judges 18:19 וַ/יֹּאמְרוּ֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said to him, Hold your peace, lay your hand on your mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for you to be priest to the house of one man, or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?
- Judges 18:23 וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They cried to the children of Dan. They turned their faces, and said to Micah, What ails you, that you come with such a company?
- Judges 18:24 וַ/יֹּ֡אמֶר תֹּאמְר֥וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal impf 2mp He said, you have taken away my gods which I made, and the priest, and are gone away, and what have I more? and how then say you to me, What ails you?
- Judges 18:25 וַ/יֹּאמְר֤וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The children of Dan said to him, "Don't let your voice be heard among us, lest angry fellows fall on you, and you lose your life, with the lives of your household."
- Judges 19:5 וַ/יֹּאמֶר֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened on the fourth day, that they arose early in the morning, and he rose up to depart: and the young lady's father said to his son-in-law, Strengthen your heart with a morsel of bread, and afterward you shall go your way.
- Judges 19:6 וַ/יֹּ֜אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So they sat down, and ate and drink, both of them together: and the young lady's father said to the man, Please be pleased to stay all night, and let your heart be merry.
- Judges 19:8 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He arose early in the morning on the fifth day to depart; and the young lady's father said, Please strengthen your heart and stay until the day declines; and they ate, both of them.
- Judges 19:9 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the young lady's father, said to him, Behold, now the day draws toward evening, please stay all night: behold, the day grows to an end, lodge here, that your heart may be merry; and tomorrow get you early on your way, that you may go home.
- Judges 19:11 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When they were by Jebus, the day was far spent; and the servant said to his master, Please come and let us turn aside into this city of the Jebusites, and lodge in it.
- Judges 19:12 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms His master said to him, We won't turn aside into the city of a foreigner, that is not of the children of Israel; but we will pass over to Gibeah.
- Judges 19:13 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to his servant, Come and let us draw near to one of these places; and we will lodge in Gibeah, or in Ramah.
- Judges 19:17 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, Where go you? and whence come you?
- Judges 19:18 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to him, We are passing from Bethlehem Judah to the farther side of the hill-country of Ephraim; from there am I, and I went to Bethlehem Judah: and I am [now] going to the house of Yahweh; and there is no man who takes me into his house.
- Judges 19:20 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The old man said, Peace be to you; howsoever let all your wants lie on me; only don't lodge in the street.
- Judges 19:22 וַ/יֹּאמְר֗וּ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר conj + Qal wimpf 3mp prep + Qal inf.cs As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man who came into your house, that we may know him.
- Judges 19:23 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The man, the master of the house, went out to them, and said to them, No, my brothers, please don't act so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into my house, don't do this folly.
- Judges 19:28 וַ/יֹּ֧אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to her, Up, and let us be going; but none answered: then he took her up on the donkey; and the man rose up, and got him to his place.
- Judges 19:30 וְ/אָמַר֙ conj + Qal wpf 3ms It was so, that all who saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt to this day: consider it, take counsel, and speak.
- Judges 20:3 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp (Now the children of Benjamin heard that the children of Israel had gone up to Mizpah.) The children of Israel said, Tell us, how was this wickedness brought to pass?
- Judges 20:4 וַ/יֹּאמַ֑ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The Levite, the husband of the woman who was murdered, answered, I came into Gibeah that belongs to Benjamin, I and my concubine, to lodge.
- Judges 20:8 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs All the people arose as one man, saying, We will not any of us go to his tent, neither will we any of us turn to his house.
- Judges 20:12 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs The tribes of Israel sent men through all the tribe of Benjamin, saying, What wickedness is this that is happen among you?
- Judges 20:18 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The children of Israel arose, and went up to Bethel, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin? Yahweh said, Judah [shall go up] first.
- Judges 20:23 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The children of Israel went up and wept before Yahweh until even; and they asked of Yahweh, saying, Shall I again draw near to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? Yahweh said, Go up against him.
- Judges 20:28 לֵ/אמֹר֒ וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wimpf 3ms and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease? Yahweh said, Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.
- Judges 20:32 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ אָמְר֗וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Qal pf 3cp The children of Benjamin said, They are struck down before us, as at the first. But the children of Israel said, Let us flee, and draw them away from the city to the highways.
- Judges 20:39 אָמְר֔וּ Qal pf 3cp The men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to strike and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are struck down before us, as in the first battle.
- Judges 21:1 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpah, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter to Benjamin as wife.
- Judges 21:3 וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said, Yahweh, the God of Israel, why has this happened in Israel, that there should be today one tribe lacking in Israel?
- Judges 21:5 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ לֵ/אמֹ֖ר conj + Qal wimpf 3mp prep + Qal inf.cs The children of Israel said, Who is there among all the tribes of Israel who didn't come up in the assembly to Yahweh? For they had made a great oath concerning him who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah, saying, He shall surely be put to death.
- Judges 21:6 וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The children of Israel repented them for Benjamin their brother, and said, There is one tribe cut off from Israel this day.
- Judges 21:8 וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said, What one is there of the tribes of Israel who didn't come up to Yahweh to Mizpah? Behold, there came none to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.
- Judges 21:10 לֵ/אמֹ֗ר prep + Qal inf.cs The congregation sent there twelve thousand men of the most valiant, and commanded them, saying, Go and strike the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the little ones.
- Judges 21:16 וַ/יֹּֽאמְר֨וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for those who remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
- Judges 21:17 וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said, There must be an inheritance for those who are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe not be blotted out from Israel.
- Judges 21:18 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs However we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he who gives a wife to Benjamin.
- Judges 21:19 וַ/יֹּאמְר֡וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said, Behold, there is a feast of Yahweh from year to year in Shiloh, which is on the north of Bethel, on the east side of the highway that goes up from Bethel to Shechem, and on the south of Lebonah.
- Judges 21:20 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs They commanded the children of Benjamin, saying, Go and lie in wait in the vineyards,
- Judges 21:22 וְ/אָמַ֤רְנוּ conj + Qal pf 1cp It shall be, when their fathers or their brothers come to complain to us, that we will say to them, Grant them graciously to us, because we didn't take for each man his wife in battle, neither did you give them to them, else would you now be guilty.
Ruth 44 verses
- Ruth 1:8 וַ/תֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Naomi said to her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother's house: Yahweh deal kindly with you, as you have dealt with the dead, and with me.
- Ruth 1:10 וַ/תֹּאמַ֖רְנָה conj + Qal wimpf 3fp They said to her, No, but we will return with you to your people.
- Ruth 1:11 וַ/תֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Naomi said, Turn again, my daughters: why will you go with me? have I yet sons in my womb, that they may be your husbands?
- Ruth 1:12 אָמַ֨רְתִּי֙ Qal pf 1cs Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband tonight, and should also bear sons;
- Ruth 1:15 וַ/תֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She said, Behold, your sister-in-law is gone back to her people, and to her god: return you after your sister-in-law.
- Ruth 1:16 וַ/תֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Ruth said, "Don't entreat me to leave you, and to return from following after you, for where you go, I will go; and where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God;
- Ruth 1:19 וַ/תֹּאמַ֖רְנָה conj + Qal wimpf 3fp So they two went until they came to Bethlehem. It happened, when they were come to Bethlehem, that all the city was moved about them, and [the women] said, Is this Naomi?
- Ruth 1:20 וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She said to them, "Don't call me Naomi, call me Mara; for the Almighty has dealt very bitterly with me.
- Ruth 2:2 וַ/תֹּאמֶר֩ וַ/תֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor. She said to her, Go, my daughter.
- Ruth 2:4 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֥אמְרוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Behold, Boaz came from Bethlehem, and said to the reapers, Yahweh be with you. They answered him, Yahweh bless you.
- Ruth 2:5 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then said Boaz to his servant who was set over the reapers, Whose young lady is this?
- Ruth 2:6 וַ/יֹּאמַ֑ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The servant who was set over the reapers answered, It is the Moabite lady who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:
- Ruth 2:7 וַ/תֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She said, Please let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves. So she came, and has continued even from the morning until now, except that she stayed a little in the house.
- Ruth 2:8 וַ/יֹּאמֶר֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then said Boaz to Ruth, Don't you hear, my daughter? Don't go to glean in another field, neither pass from hence, but abide here fast by my maidens.
- Ruth 2:10 וַ/תֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Then she fell on her face, and bowed herself to the ground, and said to him, Why have I found favor in your sight, that you should take knowledge of me, seeing I am a foreigner?
- Ruth 2:11 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Boaz answered her, It has fully been shown me, all that you have done to your mother-in-law since the death of your husband; and how you have left your father and your mother, and the land of your birth, and have come to a people that you didn't know before.
- Ruth 2:13 וַ֠/תֹּאמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Then she said, Let me find favor in your sight, my lord, because you have comforted me, and because you have spoken kindly to your handmaid, though I am not as one of your handmaidens.
- Ruth 2:14 וַ/יֹּאמֶר֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms At meal-time Boaz said to her, Come here, and eat of the bread, and dip your morsel in the vinegar. She sat beside the reapers, and they reached her parched grain, and she ate, and was sufficed, and left of it.
- Ruth 2:15 לֵ/אמֹ֗ר prep + Qal inf.cs When she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and don't reproach her.
- Ruth 2:19 וַ/תֹּאמֶר֩ וַ/תֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Her mother-in-law said to her, Where have you gleaned today? and where have you worked? blessed be he who did take knowledge of you. She shown her mother-in-law with whom she had worked, and said, The man's name with whom I worked today is Boaz.
- Ruth 2:20 וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר וַ/תֹּ֧אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of Yahweh, who has not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. Naomi said to her, The man is a close relative to us, one of our near kinsmen.
- Ruth 2:21 וַ/תֹּ֖אמֶר אָמַ֣ר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Qal pf 3ms Ruth the Moabitess said, Yes, he said to me, You shall keep fast by my young men, until they have ended all my harvest.
- Ruth 2:22 וַ/תֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Naomi said to Ruth her daughter-in-law, It is good, my daughter, that you go out with his maidens, and that they not meet you in any other field.
- Ruth 3:1 וַ/תֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Naomi her mother-in-law said to her, My daughter, shall I not seek rest for you, that it may be well with you?
- Ruth 3:5 וַ/תֹּ֖אמֶר תֹּאמְרִ֥י conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Qal impf 2fs She said to her, All that you say I will do.
- Ruth 3:9 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר וַ/תֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3fs He said, Who are you? She answered, I am Ruth your handmaid: spread therefore your skirt over your handmaid; for you are a near kinsman.
- Ruth 3:10 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, Blessed are you by Yahweh, my daughter: you have shown more kindness in the latter end than at the beginning, inasmuch as you didn't follow young men, whether poor or rich.
- Ruth 3:11 תֹּאמְרִ֖י Qal impf 2fs Now, my daughter, don't be afraid; I will do to you all that you say; for all the city of my people does know that you are a worthy woman.
- Ruth 3:14 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms She lay at his feet until the morning. She rose up before one could discern another. For he said, Let it not be known that the woman came to the threshing floor.
- Ruth 3:15 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, Bring the mantle that is on you, and hold it; and she held it; and he measured six [measures] of barley, and laid it on her: and he went into the city.
- Ruth 3:16 וַ/תֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs When she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who are you, my daughter? She told her all that the man had done to her.
- Ruth 3:17 וַ/תֹּ֕אמֶר אָמַ֣ר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Qal pf 3ms She said, These six [measures] of barley gave he me; for he said, "Don't go empty to your mother-in-law."
- Ruth 3:18 וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Then said she, "Sit still, my daughter, until you know how the matter will fall; for the man will not rest, until he has finished the thing this day."
- Ruth 4:1 וַ/יֹּ֛אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Now Boaz went up to the gate, and sat him down there: and, behold, the near kinsman of whom Boaz spoke came by; to whom he said, Ho, such a one! turn aside, sit down here. He turned aside, and sat down.
- Ruth 4:2 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He took ten men of the elders of the city, and said, Sit you down here. They sat down.
- Ruth 4:3 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to the near kinsman, Naomi, who has come back out of the country of Moab, is selling the parcel of land, which was our brother Elimelech's:
- Ruth 4:4 אָמַ֜רְתִּי לֵ/אמֹ֗ר וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר Qal pf 1cs prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wimpf 3ms I thought to disclose it to you, saying, Buy it before those who sit here, and before the elders of my people. If you will redeem it, redeem it: but if you will not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know; for there is none to redeem it besides you; and I am after you. He said, I will redeem it.
- Ruth 4:5 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then said Boaz, What day you buy the field of the hand of Naomi, you must buy it also of Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of the dead, to raise up the name of the dead on his inheritance.
- Ruth 4:6 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The near kinsman said, I can't redeem it for myself, lest I mar my own inheritance: take my right of redemption on you; for I can't redeem it.
- Ruth 4:8 וַ/יֹּ֧אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So the near kinsman said to Boaz, Buy it for yourself. He drew off his shoe.
- Ruth 4:9 וַ/יֹּאמֶר֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Boaz said to the elders, and to all the people, You are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech's, and all that was Chilion's and Mahlon's, of the hand of Naomi.
- Ruth 4:11 וַ/יֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem:
- Ruth 4:14 וַ/תֹּאמַ֤רְנָה conj + Qal wimpf 3fp The women said to Naomi, Blessed be Yahweh, who has not left you this day without a near kinsman; and let his name be famous in Israel.
- Ruth 4:17 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs The women her neighbors gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they named him Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.
1 Samuel 336 verses
- 1 Samuel 1:8 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Elkanah her husband said to her, Hannah, why weep you? and why don't you eat? and why is your heart grieved? am I not better to you than ten sons?
- 1 Samuel 1:11 וַ/תֹּאמַ֗ר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She vowed a vow, and said, Yahweh of hosts, if you will indeed look on the affliction of your handmaid, and remember me, and not forget your handmaid, but will give to your handmaid a man-child, then I will give him to Yahweh all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come on his head.
- 1 Samuel 1:14 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Eli said to her, How long will you be drunken? put away your wine from you.
- 1 Samuel 1:15 וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Hannah answered, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but I poured out my soul before Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 1:17 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Eli answered, Go in peace; and the God of Israel grant your petition that you have asked of him.
- 1 Samuel 1:18 וַ/תֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She said, Let your handmaid find favor in your sight. So the woman went her way, and ate; and her facial expression wasn't sad any more.
- 1 Samuel 1:22 אָמְרָ֣ה Qal pf 3fs But Hannah didn't go up; for she said to her husband, [I will not go up] until the child be weaned; and then I will bring him, that he may appear before Yahweh, and there abide forever.
- 1 Samuel 1:23 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Elkanah her husband said to her, Do what seems you good; wait until you have weaned him; only Yahweh establish his word. So the woman waited and nursed her son, until she weaned him.
- 1 Samuel 1:26 וַ/תֹּ֨אמֶר֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She said, Oh, my lord, as your soul lives, my lord, I am the woman who stood by you here, praying to Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 2:1 וַ/תֹּאמַ֔ר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Hannah prayed, and said: My heart exults in Yahweh; My horn is exalted in Yahweh; My mouth is enlarged over my enemies; Because I rejoice in your salvation.
- 1 Samuel 2:15 וְ/אָמַר֙ conj + Qal wpf 3ms Yes, before they burnt the fat, the priest's servant came, and said to the man who sacrificed, Give flesh to roast for the priest; for he will not have boiled flesh of you, but raw.
- 1 Samuel 2:16 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר וְ/אָמַ֥ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 3ms If the man said to him, They will surely burn the fat first, and then take as much as your soul desires; then he would say, No, but you shall give it me now: and if not, I will take it by force.
- 1 Samuel 2:20 וְ/אָמַר֙ conj + Qal wpf 3ms Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh. They went to their own home.
- 1 Samuel 2:23 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said to them, Why do you such things? for I hear of your evil dealings from all this people.
- 1 Samuel 2:27 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אָמַ֣ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal pf 3ms There came a man of God to Eli, and said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Did I reveal myself to the house of your father, when they were in Egypt [in bondage] to Pharaoh's house?
- 1 Samuel 2:30 אָמ֣וֹר אָמַ֔רְתִּי Qal inf.abs Qal pf 1cs Therefore Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, I said indeed that your house, and the house of your father, should walk before me forever: but now Yahweh says, Be it far from me; for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
- 1 Samuel 2:36 וְ/אָמַ֗ר conj + Qal wpf 3ms It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread.
- 1 Samuel 3:4 וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms that Yahweh called Samuel; and he said, Here am I.
- 1 Samuel 3:5 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֥אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He ran to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. He said, I didn't call; lie down again. He went and lay down.
- 1 Samuel 3:6 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֛אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh called yet again, Samuel. Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. He answered, I didn't call, my son; lie down again.
- 1 Samuel 3:8 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh called Samuel again the third time. He arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for you called me. Eli perceived that Yahweh had called the child.
- 1 Samuel 3:9 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר וְ/אָֽמַרְתָּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 2ms Therefore Eli said to Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call you, that you shall say, Speak, Yahweh; for your servant hears. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.
- 1 Samuel 3:10 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh came, and stood, and called as at other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then Samuel said, Speak; for your servant hears.
- 1 Samuel 3:11 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of everyone who hears it shall tingle.
- 1 Samuel 3:16 וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֖אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. He said, Here am I.
- 1 Samuel 3:17 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He said, "What is the thing that [Yahweh] has spoken to you? Please don't hide it from me. God do so to you, and more also, if you hide anything from me of all the things that he spoke to you."
- 1 Samuel 3:18 וַ/יֹּאמַ֕ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. He said, It is Yahweh: let him do what seems him good.
- 1 Samuel 4:3 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When the people were come into the camp, the elders of Israel said, Why has Yahweh struck us today before the Philistines? Let us get the ark of the covenant of Yahweh out of Shiloh to us, that it may come among us, and save us out of the hand of our enemies.
- 1 Samuel 4:6 וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When the Philistines heard the noise of the shout, they said, What means the noise of this great shout in the camp of the Hebrews? They understood that the ark of Yahweh was come into the camp.
- 1 Samuel 4:7 אָמְר֔וּ וַ/יֹּאמְרוּ֙ Qal pf 3cp conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The Philistines were afraid, for they said, God is come into the camp. They said, Woe to us! for there has not been such a thing heretofore.
- 1 Samuel 4:14 וַ/יֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When Eli heard the noise of the crying, he said, What means the noise of this tumult? The man hurried, and came and told Eli.
- 1 Samuel 4:16 וַ/יֹּ֨אמֶר וַ/יֹּ֛אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The man said to Eli, I am he who came out of the army, and I fled today out of the army. He said, How went the matter, my son?
- 1 Samuel 4:17 וַ/יֹּ֗אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He who brought the news answered, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there has been also a great slaughter among the people, and your two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken.
- 1 Samuel 4:21 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs She named the child Ichabod, saying, The glory is departed from Israel; because the ark of God was taken, and because of her father-in-law and her husband.
- 1 Samuel 4:22 וַ/תֹּ֕אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She said, The glory is departed from Israel; for the ark of God is taken.
- 1 Samuel 5:7 וְ/אָמְר֗וּ conj + Qal pf 3cp When the men of Ashdod saw that it was so, they said, The ark of the God of Israel shall not abide with us; for his hand is sore on us, and on Dagon our god.
- 1 Samuel 5:8 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ וַ/יֹּ֣אמְר֔וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines to them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? They answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about to Gath. They carried the ark of the God of Israel [there].
- 1 Samuel 5:10 לֵ/אמֹ֗ר prep + Qal inf.cs So they sent the ark of God to Ekron. It happened, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to kill us and our people.
- 1 Samuel 5:11 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They sent therefore and gathered together all the lords of the Philistines, and they said, Send away the ark of the God of Israel, and let it go again to its own place, that it not kill us and our people. For there was a deadly confusion throughout all the city; the hand of God was very heavy there.
- 1 Samuel 6:2 לֵ/אמֹ֔ר prep + Qal inf.cs The Philistines called for the priests and the diviners, saying, "What shall we do with the ark of Yahweh? Show us with which we shall send it to its place."
- 1 Samuel 6:3 וַ/יֹּאמְר֗וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They said, "If you send away the ark of the God of Israel, don't send it empty; but by all means return him a trespass-offering: then you shall be healed, and it shall be known to you why his hand is not removed from you."
- 1 Samuel 6:4 וַ/יֹּאמְר֗וּ וַ/יֹּאמְר֗וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then they said, "What shall be the trespass-offering which we shall return to him?" They said, "Five golden tumors, and five golden mice, [according to] the number of the lords of the Philistines; for one plague was on you all, and on your lords.
- 1 Samuel 6:20 וַ/יֹּֽאמְרוּ֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The men of Beth-shemesh said, Who is able to stand before Yahweh, this holy God? and to whom shall he go up from us?
- 1 Samuel 6:21 לֵ/אמֹ֑ר prep + Qal inf.cs They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of Yahweh; come you down, and bring it up to you.
- 1 Samuel 7:3 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר לֵ/אמֹר֒ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms prep + Qal inf.cs Samuel spoke to all the house of Israel, saying, If you do return to Yahweh with all your heart, then put away the foreign gods and the Ashtaroth from among you, and direct your hearts to Yahweh, and serve him only; and he will deliver you out of the hand of the Philistines.
- 1 Samuel 7:5 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel said, Gather all Israel to Mizpah, and I will pray for you to Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 7:6 וַ/יֹּ֣אמְרוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp They gathered together to Mizpah, and drew water, and poured it out before Yahweh, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against Yahweh. Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpah.
- 1 Samuel 7:8 וַ/יֹּאמְר֤וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The children of Israel said to Samuel, "Don't cease to cry to Yahweh our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines."
- 1 Samuel 7:12 וַ/יֹּאמַ֕ר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Ebenezer, saying, Hitherto has Yahweh helped us.
- 1 Samuel 8:5 וַ/יֹּאמְר֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp and they said to him, Behold, you are old, and your sons don't walk in your ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations.
- 1 Samuel 8:6 אָמְר֔וּ Qal pf 3cp But the thing displeased Samuel, when they said, Give us a king to judge us. Samuel prayed to Yahweh.
- 1 Samuel 8:7 וַ/יֹּ֤אמֶר יֹאמְר֖וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Qal impf 3mp Yahweh said to Samuel, Listen to the voice of the people in all that they tell you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me, that I should not be king over them.
- 1 Samuel 8:10 וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel told all the words of Yahweh to the people who asked of him a king.
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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 vs modern scholarship
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
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- 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×
King James Version Public Domain
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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
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)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
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.
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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.
