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אָמַר

amar

aw-mar'

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼâmar

to say (used with great latitude)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

to say (used with great latitude)

Rendered in the KJV as

answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, [idiom] desire, determine, [idiom] expressly, [idiom] indeed, [idiom] intend, name, [idiom] plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), [idiom] still, [idiom] suppose, talk, tell, term, [idiom] that is, [idiom] think, use (speech), utter, [idiom] verily, [idiom] yet.

  • 5,305
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 1 of 39
    Old Testament booksamong the first 500 shown
  • 108
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 500 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 108

  • וַיֹּ֣אמֶר61
  • וַיֹּ֤אמֶר43
  • וַיֹּ֥אמֶר31
  • וַיֹּ֨אמֶר27
  • וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙26
  • וַיֹּ֕אמֶר24
  • וַיֹּ֖אמֶר22
  • לֵאמֹ֑ר22
  • וַיֹּ֗אמֶר18
  • לֵאמֹ֔ר15
  • וַתֹּ֣אמֶר14
  • וַיֹּאמַ֑ר9

and 96 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 31

  • and he said290
  • to saying61
  • and she said48
  • and they said35
  • he said15
  • and I said7
  • she said5
  • he had said4
  • you will say3
  • and she will say2
  • and we said2
  • did he say2

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 26

  • Hc/Vqw3ms290
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)62
  • Hc/Vqw3fs48
  • Hc/Vqw3mp34
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular20
  • Hc/Vqw1cs7
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person feminine singular5
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular4
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 1st person common singular4
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 1st person common singular3
  • Hc/Vqq3fs2
  • Hc/Vqw1cp2
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • Hc/Vqw3ms · 290
  • HR/Vqcc · 62
  • Hc/Vqw3fs · 48
  • Hc/Vqw3mp · 34
  • HVqp3ms · 20
  • Hc/Vqw1cs · 7
  • HVqp3fs · 5
  • HVqi3ms · 4
  • HVqp1cs · 4
  • HVqi1cs · 3
  • Hc/Vqq3fs · 2
  • Hc/Vqw1cp · 2

The first 500 of 5,305, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Genesis500 occurrences
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).