Hebrew verb · H559
אָמַר
amaraw-mar'
to say
5,305 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼâmar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H559is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 108spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H559
to say (used with great latitude)
The King James renders it: 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.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
amar is rendered "to say". It stands 5,305 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- 500 of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 1:3And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
- The Greek text spells it 108 different ways.
The first use
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
Genesis 1:3וַיֹּ֥אמֶר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in one of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- 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
and 19 more, 500 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The first 500 of 5,305
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
108 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר61
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶר43
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶר31
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶר27
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙26
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶר24
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶר22
- לֵאמֹ֑ר22
- וַיֹּ֗אמֶר18
- לֵאמֹ֔ר15
- וַתֹּ֣אמֶר14
- וַיֹּאמַ֑ר9
and 96 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vqw3ms290Hc/Vqw3ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)62HR/Vqcc
- Hc/Vqw3fs48Hc/Vqw3fs
- Hc/Vqw3mp34Hc/Vqw3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular20HVqp3ms
- Hc/Vqw1cs7Hc/Vqw1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular5HVqp3fs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVqi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular4HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular3HVqi1cs
- Hc/Vqq3fs2Hc/Vqq3fs
- Hc/Vqw1cp2Hc/Vqw1cp
Genesis
500 uses
And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so.
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth vegetation: seed-bearing plants and fruit trees, each bearing fruit with seed according to its kind.” And it was so.
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to distinguish between the day and the night, and let them be signs to mark the seasons and days and years.
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And God said, “Let the waters teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the sky.”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters of the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.”
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and every creature that crawls upon the earth.”
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every seed-bearing plant on the face of all the earth, and every tree whose fruit contains seed. They will be yours for food.
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And the LORD God commanded him, “You may eat freely from every tree of the garden,
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
The LORD God also said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make for him a suitable helper.”
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And the man said: “This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for out of man she was taken.”
- וַיֹּאמֶר֮vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Now the serpent was more crafty than any beast of the field that the LORD God had made. And he said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden?’”
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- אָמַ֣רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: did he say
The woman answered the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden,
- וַתֹּ֥אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
but about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God has said, ‘You must not eat of it or touch it, or you will die.’”
- אָמַ֣רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he said
“You will not surely die,” the serpent told her.
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
But the LORD God called out to the man, “Where are you?”
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“Who told you that you were naked?” asked the LORD God. “Have you eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat?”
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And the man answered, “The woman whom You gave me, she gave me fruit from the tree, and I ate it.”
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then the LORD God said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” “The serpent deceived me,” she replied, “and I ate.”
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙vatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
So the LORD God said to the serpent: “Because you have done this, cursed are you above all livestock and every beast of the field! On your belly will you go, and dust you will eat, all the days of your life.
- וַיֹּאמֶר֩vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
- אָמַ֗רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he said
And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
- אָמַ֗רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he said
- לֵאמֹ֔רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
Then the LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of Us, knowing good and evil. And now, lest he reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life, and eat, and live forever...”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And Adam had relations with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. “With the help of the LORD I have brought forth a man,” she said.
- וַתֹּ֕אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
“Why are you angry,” said the LORD to Cain, “and why has your countenance fallen?
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then Cain said to his brother Abel, “Let us go out to the field.” And while they were in the field, Cain rose up against his brother Abel and killed him.
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And the LORD said to Cain, “Where is your brother Abel?” “I do not know!” he answered. “Am I my brother’s keeper?”
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“What have you done?” replied the LORD. “The voice of your brother’s blood cries out to Me from the ground.
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
But Cain said to the LORD, “My punishment is greater than I can bear.
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
- וַיֹּ֧אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
So the LORD said, “My Spirit will not contend with man forever, for he is mortal; his days shall be 120 years.”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
So the LORD said, “I will blot out man, whom I have created, from the face of the earth—every man and beast and crawling creature and bird of the air—for I am grieved that I have made them.”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then God said to Noah, “The end of all living creatures has come before Me, because through them the earth is full of violence. Now behold, I will destroy both them and the earth.
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then God said to Noah,
- לֵאמֹֽר׃lemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
- וַיֹּ֧אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then God said to Noah and his sons with him,
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- לֵאמֹֽר׃lemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
And God said, “This is the sign of the covenant I am making between Me and you and every living creature with you, a covenant for all generations to come:
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
So God said to Noah, “This is the sign of the covenant that I have established between Me and every creature on the earth.”
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
he said, “Cursed be Canaan! A servant of servants shall he be to his brothers.”
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
He also declared: “Blessed be the LORD, the God of Shem! May Canaan be the servant of Shem.
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
He was a mighty hunter before the LORD; so it is said, “Like Nimrod, a mighty hunter before the LORD.”
- יֵֽאָמַ֔רyeamarverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is said
And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
- וַיֹּאמְר֞וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
“Come,” they said, “let us build for ourselves a city with a tower that reaches to the heavens, that we may make a name for ourselves and not be scattered over the face of all the earth.”
- וַיֹּאמְר֞וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
And the LORD said, “If they have begun to do this as one people speaking the same language, then nothing they devise will be beyond them.
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they will kill me but will let you live.
- וְאָמְר֖וּveameruHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will say
Please say you are my sister, so that I will be treated well for your sake, and on account of you my life will be spared.”
- אִמְרִי־ʾimri-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: say
So Pharaoh summoned Abram and asked, “What have you done to me? Why didn’t you tell me she was your wife?
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Why did you say, ‘She is my sister,’ so that I took her as my wife? Now then, here is your wife. Take her and go!”
- אָמַ֙רְתָּ֙ʾamartaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: did you say
So Abram said to Lot, “Please let there be no contention between you and me, or between your herdsmen and my herdsmen. After all, we are brothers.
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,
- אָמַ֣רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he said
and he blessed Abram and said: “Blessed be Abram by God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
- וַיֹּאמַ֑רvaiyomarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
The king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people, but take the goods for yourself.”
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
But Abram replied to the king of Sodom, “I have raised my hand to the LORD God Most High, Creator of heaven and earth,
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
that I will not accept even a thread, or a strap of a sandal, or anything that belongs to you, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
- תֹאמַ֔רtomarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will say
After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
But Abram replied, “O Lord GOD, what can You give me, since I remain childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Abram continued, “Behold, You have given me no offspring, so a servant in my household will be my heir.”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then the word of the LORD came to Abram, saying, “This one will not be your heir, but one who comes from your own body will be your heir.”
- לֵאמֹ֔רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
And the LORD took him outside and said, “Now look to the heavens and count the stars, if you are able.” Then He told him, “So shall your offspring be.”
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
The LORD also told him, “I am the LORD, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess.”
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
But Abram replied, “Lord GOD, how can I know that I will possess it?”
- וַיֹּאמַ֑רvaiyomarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And the LORD said to him, “Bring Me a heifer, a goat, and a ram, each three years old, along with a turtledove and a young pigeon.”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then the LORD said to Abram, “Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not their own, and they will be enslaved and mistreated four hundred years.
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
- וַתֹּ֨אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
- וַתֹּ֨אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.
- וַיֹּאמַ֗רvaiyomarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַתֹּ֕אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
So the angel of the LORD told her, “Return to your mistress and submit to her authority.”
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then the angel added, “I will greatly multiply your offspring so that they will be too numerous to count.”
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
The angel of the LORD proceeded: “Behold, you have conceived and will bear a son. And you shall name him Ishmael, for the LORD has heard your cry of affliction.
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
So Hagar gave this name to the LORD who had spoken to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “Here I have seen the One who sees me!”
- אָֽמְרָ֗הʾamerahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she said
When Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am God Almighty. Walk before Me and be blameless.
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then Abram fell facedown, and God said to him,
- לֵאמֹֽר׃lemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And Abraham said to God, “O that Ishmael might live under Your blessing!”
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.
- וַיֹּאמַ֑רvaiyomarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And I will bring a bit of bread so that you may refresh yourselves. This is why you have passed your servant’s way. After that, you may continue on your way.” “Yes,” they replied, “you may do as you have said.”
- וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”
- וַיֹּ֗אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked. “There, in the tent,” he replied.
- וַיֹּאמְר֣וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.
- וַיֹּ֗אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
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And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’
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- לֵאמֹ֗רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, “I did not laugh.” “No,” replied the LORD, “but you did laugh.”
- לֵאמֹ֛רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
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And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
- אָמָ֑רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he said
Then the LORD said, “The outcry against Sodom and Gomorrah is great. Because their sin is so grievous,
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Abraham stepped forward and said, “Will You really sweep away the righteous with the wicked?
- וַיֹּאמַ֑רvaiyomarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then Abraham answered, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord—though I am but dust and ashes—
- וַיֹּאמַ֑רvaiyomarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.”
- וַיֹּאמַ֔רvaiyomarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak further. Suppose thirty are found there?” He replied, “If I find thirty there, I will not do it.”
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- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And Abraham said, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose twenty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the twenty, I will not destroy it.”
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- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Finally, Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak once more. Suppose ten are found there?” And He answered, “On account of the ten, I will not destroy it.”
- וַ֠יֹּאמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
and said, “My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” “No,” they answered, “we will spend the night in the square.”
- וַיֹּ֜אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּאמְר֣וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
They called out to Lot, saying, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Send them out to us so we can have relations with them!”
- וַיֹּ֣אמְרוּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
“Please, my brothers,” he pleaded, “don’t do such a wicked thing!
- וַיֹּאמַ֑רvaiyomarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.
- וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ׀vaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
- וַיֹּֽאמְרוּ֙vaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
Then the two men said to Lot, “Do you have anyone else here—a son-in-law, your sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here,
- וַיֹּאמְר֨וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
As soon as the men had brought them out, one of them said, “Run for your lives! Do not look back, and do not stop anywhere on the plain! Flee to the mountains, or you will be swept away!”
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
But Lot replied, “No, my lords, please!
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“Very well,” he answered, “I will grant this request as well, and will not demolish the town you indicate.
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
- וַתֹּ֧אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Look, I slept with my father last night. Let us get him drunk with wine again tonight so you can go in and sleep with him and we can preserve our father’s line.”
- וַתֹּ֤אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
- וַיֹּ֧אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
One night, however, God came to Abimelech in a dream and told him, “You are as good as dead because of the woman you have taken, for she is a married woman.”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Now Abimelech had not gone near her, so he replied, “Lord, would You destroy a nation even though it is innocent?
- וַיֹּאמַ֕רvaiyomarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Didn’t Abraham tell me, ‘She is my sister’? And she herself said, ‘He is my brother.’ I have done this in the integrity of my heart and the innocence of my hands.”
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- אָֽמְרָ֖הʾamerahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she said
Then God said to Abimelech in the dream, “Yes, I know that you did this with a clear conscience, and so I have kept you from sinning against Me. That is why I did not let you touch her.
- וַיֹּאמֶר֩vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then Abimelech called Abraham and asked, “What have you done to us? How have I sinned against you, that you have brought such tremendous guilt upon me and my kingdom? You have done things to me that should not be done.”
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Abimelech also asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do such a thing?”
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ‘Surely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.’
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- אָמַ֗רְתִּיʾamartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I said
So when God had me journey from my father’s house, I said to Sarah, ‘This is how you can show your loyalty to me: Wherever we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”’”
- וָאֹמַ֣רvaomarHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I said
- אִמְרִי־ʾimri-verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: say
And Abimelech said, “Look, my land is before you. Settle wherever you please.”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And he said to Sarah, “See, I am giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your vindication before all who are with you; you are completely cleared.”
- אָמַ֗רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he said
Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
- אָמָ֑רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had said
Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
- וַתֹּ֣אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
- וַתֹּ֗אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
and she said to Abraham, “Expel the slave woman and her son, for the slave woman’s son will never share in the inheritance with my son Isaac!”
- וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙vatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
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- תֹּאמַ֥רtomarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she says
Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.
- אָֽמְרָ֔הʾamerahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she said
Then God heard the voice of the boy, and the angel of God called to Hagar from heaven, “What is wrong, Hagar? Do not be afraid, for God has heard the voice of the boy where he lies.
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
At that time Abimelech and Phicol the commander of his army said to Abraham, “God is with you in all that you do.
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- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
And Abraham replied, “I swear it.”
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Abimelech replied, “I do not know who has done this. You did not tell me, so I have not heard about it until today.”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
and Abimelech asked him, “Why have you set apart these seven ewe lambs?”
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
He replied, “You are to accept the seven ewe lambs from my hand as my witness that I dug this well.”
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered.
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“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
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- אֹמַ֥רʾomarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will tell
So Abraham got up early the next morning, saddled his donkey, and took along two of his servants and his son Isaac. He split the wood for a burnt offering and set out for the place God had designated.
- אָֽמַר־ʾamar-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had said
“Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told his servants. “The boy and I will go over there to worship, and then we will return to you.”
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then Isaac said to his father Abraham, “My father!” “Here I am, my son,” he replied. “The fire and the wood are here,” said Isaac, “but where is the lamb for the burnt offering?”
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Abraham answered, “God Himself will provide the lamb for the burnt offering, my son.” And the two walked on together.
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
When they arrived at the place God had designated, Abraham built the altar there and arranged the wood. He bound his son Isaac and placed him on the altar, atop the wood.
- אָֽמַר־ʾamar-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had said
Just then the angel of the LORD called out to him from heaven, “Abraham, Abraham!” “Here I am,” he replied.
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“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
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And Abraham called that place The LORD Will Provide. So to this day it is said, “On the mountain of the LORD it will be provided.”
- יֵאָמֵ֣רyeamerverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is said
saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
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Some time later, Abraham was told, “Milcah has also borne sons to your brother Nahor:
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Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,
- לֵאמֹֽר׃lemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
The Hittites replied to Abraham,
- לֵאמֹ֥רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
“If you are willing for me to bury my dead,” he said to them, “listen to me, and approach Ephron son of Zohar on my behalf
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
Now Ephron was sitting among the sons of Heth. So in the presence of all the Hittites who had come to the gate of his city, Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham,
- לֵאמֹֽר׃lemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
and said to Ephron in their presence, “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.”
- לֵאמֹ֔רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
Ephron answered Abraham,
- לֵאמֹ֥רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
So Abraham instructed the chief servant of his household, who managed all he owned, “Place your hand under my thigh,
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The servant asked him, “What if the woman is unwilling to follow me to this land? Shall I then take your son back to the land from which you came?”
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Abraham replied, “Make sure that you do not take my son back there.
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
The LORD, the God of heaven, who brought me from my father’s house and my native land, who spoke to me and promised me on oath, saying, ‘To your offspring I will give this land’—He will send His angel before you so that you can take a wife for my son from there.
- לֵאמֹ֔רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
“O LORD, God of my master Abraham,” he prayed, “please grant me success today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.
- וַיֹּאמַ֓ר׀vaiyomarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Now may it happen that the girl to whom I say, ‘Please let down your jar that I may drink,’ and who responds, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well’—let her be the one You have appointed for Your servant Isaac. By this I will know that You have shown kindness to my master.”
- אֹמַ֤רʾomarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will say
- וְאָמְרָ֣הveamerahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and she will say
So the servant ran to meet her and said, “Please let me have a little water from your jar.”
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“Drink, my lord,” she replied, and she quickly lowered her jar to her hands and gave him a drink.
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After she had given him a drink, she said, “I will also draw water for your camels, until they have had enough to drink.”
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“Whose daughter are you?” he asked. “Please tell me, is there room in your father’s house for us to spend the night?”
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She replied, “I am the daughter of Bethuel, the son that Milcah bore to Nahor.”
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Then she added, “We have plenty of straw and feed, as well as a place for you to spend the night.”
- וַתֹּ֣אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”
- וַיֹּ֗אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
As soon as he saw the ring, and the bracelets on his sister’s wrists, and heard Rebekah’s words, “The man said this to me,” he went and found the man standing by the camels near the spring.
- לֵאמֹ֔רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
“Come, you who are blessed by the LORD,” said Laban. “Why are you standing out here? I have prepared the house and a place for the camels.”
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then a meal was set before the man, but he said, “I will not eat until I have told you what I came to say.” So Laban said, “Please speak.”
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“I am Abraham’s servant,” he replied.
- וַיֹּאמַ֑רvaiyomarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
My master made me swear an oath and said, ‘You shall not take a wife for my son from the daughters of the Canaanites in whose land I dwell,
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
Then I asked my master, ‘What if the woman will not come back with me?’
- וָאֹמַ֖רvaomarHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I said
And he told me, ‘The LORD, before whom I have walked, will send His angel with you and make your journey a success, so that you may take a wife for my son from my kindred and from my father’s house.
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
So when I came to the spring today, I prayed: O LORD, God of my master Abraham, if only You would make my journey a success!
- וָאֹמַ֗רvaomarHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I said
Here I am, standing beside this spring. Now if a maiden comes out to draw water and I say to her, ‘Please let me drink a little water from your jar,’
- וְאָמַרְתִּ֣יveamartiHc/Vqq1cstagged: and I will say
and she replies, ‘Drink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,’ may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my master’s son.
- וְאָמְרָ֤הveamerahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and she will say
And before I had finished praying in my heart, there was Rebekah coming out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew water. So I said to her, ‘Please give me a drink.’
- וָאֹמַ֥רvaomarHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I said
She quickly lowered her jar from her shoulder and said, ‘Drink, and I will water your camels as well.’ So I drank, and she also watered the camels.
- וַתֹּ֣אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
Then I asked her, ‘Whose daughter are you?’ She replied, ‘The daughter of Bethuel son of Nahor, whom Milcah bore to him.’ So I put the ring on her nose and the bracelets on her wrists.
- וָאֹמַר֮vaomarHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I said
- וַתֹּ֗אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
Laban and Bethuel answered, “This is from the LORD; we have no choice in the matter.
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Then he and the men with him ate and drank and spent the night there. When they got up the next morning, he said, “Send me on my way to my master.”
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
But her brother and mother said, “Let the girl remain with us ten days or so. After that, she may go.”
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
But he replied, “Do not delay me, since the LORD has made my journey a success. Send me on my way so that I may go to my master.”
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
So they said, “We will call the girl and ask her opinion.”
- וַיֹּאמְר֖וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
They called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she replied.
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And they blessed Rebekah and said to her, “Our sister, may you become the mother of thousands upon thousands. May your offspring possess the gates of their enemies.”
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and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?” “It is my master,” the servant answered. So she took her veil and covered herself.
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But the children inside her struggled with each other, and she said, “Why is this happening to me?” So Rebekah went to inquire of the LORD,
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and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”
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He said to Jacob, “Let me eat some of that red stew, for I am famished.” (That is why he was also called Edom.)
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“First sell me your birthright,” Jacob replied.
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“Look,” said Esau, “I am about to die, so what good is a birthright to me?”
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“Swear to me first,” Jacob said. So Esau swore to Jacob and sold him the birthright.
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The LORD appeared to Isaac and said, “Do not go down to Egypt. Settle in the land where I tell you.
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But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”
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Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ‘She is my sister’?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”
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“What is this you have done to us?” asked Abimelech. “One of the people could easily have slept with your wife, and you would have brought guilt upon us.”
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So Abimelech warned all the people, saying, “Whoever harms this man or his wife will surely be put to death.”
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Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”
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But the herdsmen of Gerar quarreled with Isaac’s herdsmen and said, “The water is ours!” So he named the well Esek, because they contended with him.
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He moved on from there and dug another well, and they did not quarrel over it. He named it Rehoboth and said, “At last the LORD has made room for us, and we will be fruitful in the land.”
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and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”
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“Why have you come to me?” Isaac asked them. “You hated me and sent me away.”
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“We can plainly see that the LORD has been with you,” they replied. “We recommend that there should now be an oath between us and you. Let us make a covenant with you
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On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.
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When Isaac was old and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he called his older son Esau and said to him, “My son.” “Here I am,” Esau replied.
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“Look,” said Isaac, “I am now old, and I do not know the day of my death.
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Rebekah said to her son Jacob, “Behold, I overheard your father saying to your brother Esau,
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Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.
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His mother replied, “Your curse be on me, my son. Just obey my voice and go get them for me.”
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So Jacob went to his father and said, “My father.” “Here I am!” he answered. “Which one are you, my son?”
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Jacob said to his father, “I am Esau, your firstborn. I have done as you told me. Please sit up and eat some of my game, so that you may bless me.”
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But Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.
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Then Isaac said to Jacob, “Please come closer so I can touch you, my son. Are you really my son Esau, or not?”
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So Jacob came close to his father Isaac, who touched him and said, “The voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands are the hands of Esau.”
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Again he asked, “Are you really my son Esau?” And he replied, “I am.”
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“Serve me,” said Isaac, “and let me eat some of my son’s game, so that I may bless you.” Jacob brought it to him, and he ate; then he brought him wine, and he drank.
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Then his father Isaac said to him, “Please come near and kiss me, my son.”
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So he came near and kissed him. When Isaac smelled his clothing, he blessed him and said: “Ah, the smell of my son is like the smell of a field that the LORD has blessed.
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He too made some tasty food, brought it to his father, and said to him, “My father, sit up and eat of your son’s game, so that you may bless me.”
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But his father Isaac replied, “Who are you?” “I am Esau, your firstborn son,” he answered.
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Isaac began to tremble violently and said, “Who was it, then, who hunted the game and brought it to me? Before you came in, I ate it all and blessed him—and indeed, he will be blessed!”
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When Esau heard his father’s words, he let out a loud and bitter cry and said to his father, “Bless me too, O my father!”
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But Isaac replied, “Your brother came deceitfully and took your blessing.”
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So Esau declared, “Is he not rightly named Jacob? For he has cheated me twice. He took my birthright, and now he has taken my blessing.” Then he asked, “Haven’t you saved a blessing for me?”
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But Isaac answered Esau: “Look, I have made him your master and given him all his relatives as servants; I have sustained him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?”
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Esau said to his father, “Do you have only one blessing, my father? Bless me too, O my father!” Then Esau wept aloud.
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His father Isaac answered him: “Behold, your dwelling place shall be away from the richness of the land, away from the dew of heaven above.
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Esau held a grudge against Jacob because of the blessing his father had given him. And Esau said in his heart, “The days of mourning for my father are at hand; then I will kill my brother Jacob.”
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When the words of her older son Esau were relayed to Rebekah, she sent for her younger son Jacob and told him, “Look, your brother Esau is consoling himself by plotting to kill you.
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Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”
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So Isaac called for Jacob and blessed him. “Do not take a wife from the Canaanite women,” he commanded.
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Now Esau learned that Isaac had blessed Jacob and sent him to Paddan-aram to take a wife there, commanding him, “Do not marry a Canaanite woman,”
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And there at the top the LORD was standing and saying, “I am the LORD, the God of your father Abraham and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you now lie.
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When Jacob woke up, he thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, and I was unaware of it.”
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And he was afraid and said, “How awesome is this place! This is none other than the house of God; this is the gate of heaven!”
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Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,
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“My brothers,” Jacob asked the shepherds, “where are you from?” “We are from Haran,” they answered.
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“Do you know Laban the grandson of Nahor?” Jacob asked. “We know him,” they replied.
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“Is he well?” Jacob inquired. “Yes,” they answered, “and here comes his daughter Rachel with his sheep.”
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“Look,” said Jacob, “it is still broad daylight; it is not yet time to gather the livestock. Water the sheep and take them back to pasture.”
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But they replied, “We cannot, until all the flocks have been gathered and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the well. Then we will water the sheep.”
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Then Laban declared, “You are indeed my own flesh and blood.” After Jacob had stayed with him a month,
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Laban said to him, “Just because you are my relative, should you work for nothing? Tell me what your wages should be.”
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Since Jacob loved Rachel, he answered, “I will serve you seven years for your younger daughter Rachel.”
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Laban replied, “Better that I give her to you than to another. Stay here with me.”
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Finally Jacob said to Laban, “Grant me my wife, for my time is complete, and I want to sleep with her.”
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When morning came, there was Leah! “What have you done to me?” Jacob said to Laban. “Wasn’t it for Rachel that I served you? Why have you deceived me?”
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Laban replied, “It is not our custom here to give the younger daughter in marriage before the older.
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And Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she named him Reuben, for she said, “The LORD has seen my affliction. Surely my husband will love me now.”
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Again she conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Because the LORD has heard that I am unloved, He has given me this son as well.” So she named him Simeon.
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Once again Leah conceived and gave birth to a son, and she said, “Now at last my husband will become attached to me, because I have borne him three sons.” So he was named Levi.
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And once more she conceived and gave birth to a son and said, “This time I will praise the LORD.” So she named him Judah. Then Leah stopped having children.
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When Rachel saw that she was not bearing any children for Jacob, she envied her sister. “Give me children, or I will die!” she said to Jacob.
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Jacob became angry with Rachel and said, “Am I in the place of God, who has withheld children from you?”
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Then she said, “Here is my maidservant Bilhah. Sleep with her, that she may bear children for me, so that through her I too can build a family.”
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Then Rachel said, “God has vindicated me; He has heard my plea and given me a son.” So she named him Dan.
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Then Rachel said, “In my great struggles, I have wrestled with my sister and won.” So she named him Naphtali.
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Then Leah said, “How fortunate!” So she named him Gad.
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Leah said, “How happy I am! For the women call me happy.” So she named him Asher.
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Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
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But Leah replied, “Is it not enough that you have taken away my husband? Now you want to take my son’s mandrakes as well?” “Very well,” said Rachel, “he may sleep with you tonight in exchange for your son’s mandrakes.”
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When Jacob came in from the field that evening, Leah went out to meet him and said, “You must come with me, for I have hired you with my son’s mandrakes.” So he slept with her that night.
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Then Leah said, “God has rewarded me for giving my maidservant to my husband.” So she named him Issachar.
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“God has given me a good gift,” she said. “This time my husband will honor me, because I have borne him six sons.” And she named him Zebulun.
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and she conceived and gave birth to a son. “God has taken away my shame,” she said.
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She named him Joseph, and said, “May the LORD add to me another son.”
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Now after Rachel had given birth to Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, “Send me on my way so I can return to my homeland.
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But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
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And he added, “Name your wages, and I will pay them.”
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Then Jacob answered, “You know how I have served you and how your livestock have thrived under my care.
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“What can I give you?” Laban asked. “You do not need to give me anything,” Jacob replied. “If you do this one thing for me, I will keep on shepherding and keeping your flocks.
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“Agreed,” said Laban. “Let it be as you have said.”
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Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
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Then the LORD said to Jacob, “Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred, and I will be with you.”
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and he told them, “I can see from your father’s countenance that his attitude toward me has changed; but the God of my father has been with me.
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If he said, ‘The speckled will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore speckled offspring. If he said, ‘The streaked will be your wages,’ then the whole flock bore streaked offspring.
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- יֹאמַ֗רyomarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he said
In that dream the angel of God said to me, ‘Jacob!’ And I replied, ‘Here I am.’
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‘Look up,’ he said, ‘and see that all the males that are mating with the flock are streaked, spotted, or speckled; for I have seen all that Laban has done to you.
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And Rachel and Leah replied, “Do we have any portion or inheritance left in our father’s house?
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Surely all the wealth that God has taken away from our father belongs to us and to our children. So do whatever God has told you.”
- אָמַ֧רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has said
But that night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and warned him, “Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.”
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Then Laban said to Jacob, “What have you done? You have deceived me and carried off my daughters like captives of war!
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I have power to do you great harm, but last night the God of your father said to me, ‘Be careful not to say anything to Jacob, either good or bad.’
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- לֵאמֹ֗רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
“I was afraid,” Jacob answered, “for I thought you would take your daughters from me by force.
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Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.
- וַתֹּ֣אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
Then Jacob became incensed and challenged Laban. “What is my crime?” he said. “For what sin of mine have you so hotly pursued me?
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
But Laban answered Jacob, “These daughters are my daughters, these sons are my sons, and these flocks are my flocks! Everything you see is mine! Yet what can I do today about these daughters of mine or the children they have borne?
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
and he said to his relatives, “Gather some stones.” So they took stones and made a mound, and there by the mound they ate.
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then Laban declared, “This mound is a witness between you and me this day.” Therefore the place was called Galeed.
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.
- אָמַ֔רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he said
Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּאמַ֕רvaiyomarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“I already have plenty, my brother,” Esau replied. “Keep what belongs to you.”
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
But Jacob insisted, “No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then Esau said, “Let us be on our way, and I will go ahead of you.”
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
So Shechem told his father Hamor, “Get me this girl as a wife.”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
But Hamor said to them, “My son Shechem longs for your daughter. Please give her to him as his wife.
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- תֹּאמְר֛וּtomeruverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will say
Demand a high dowry and an expensive gift, and I will give you whatever you ask. Only give me the girl as my wife!”
- תֹּאמְר֖וּtomeruverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will say
“We cannot do such a thing,” they said. “To give our sister to an uncircumcised man would be a disgrace to us.
- וַיֹּאמְר֣וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
So Hamor and his son Shechem went to the gate of their city and addressed the men of their city:
- לֵאמֹֽר׃lemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
Then Jacob said to Simeon and Levi, “You have brought trouble upon me by making me a stench to the Canaanites and Perizzites, the people of this land. We are few in number; if they unite against me and attack me, I and my household will be destroyed.”
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
But they replied, “Should he have treated our sister like a prostitute?”
- וַיֹּאמְר֑וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And God said to him, “Though your name is Jacob, you will no longer be called Jacob. Instead, your name will be Israel.” So God named him Israel.
- וַיֹּֽאמֶר־vaiyomer-Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And God told him, “I am God Almighty. Be fruitful and multiply. A nation—even a company of nations—shall come from you, and kings shall descend from you.
- וַיֹּאמֶר֩vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”
- וַתֹּ֨אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
He said to them, “Listen to this dream I had:
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“Do you intend to reign over us?” his brothers asked. “Will you actually rule us?” So they hated him even more because of his dream and his statements.
- וַיֹּ֤אמְרוּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were bowing down to me.”
- וַיֹּ֗אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and bow down to the ground before you?”
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Israel said to him, “Are not your brothers pasturing the flocks at Shechem? Get ready; I am sending you to them.” “I am ready,” Joseph replied.
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then Israel told him, “Go now and see how your brothers and the flocks are faring, and bring word back to me.” So he sent him off from the Valley of Hebron. And when Joseph arrived in Shechem,
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”
- לֵאמֹ֖רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
“I am looking for my brothers,” Joseph replied. “Can you please tell me where they are pasturing their flocks?”
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- אֹֽמְרִ֔יםʾomerimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: saying
“Here comes that dreamer!” they said to one another.
- וַיֹּאמְר֖וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
“Come now, let us kill him and throw him into one of the pits. We can say that a vicious animal has devoured him. Then we shall see what becomes of his dreams!”
- וְאָמַ֕רְנוּveamarnuHc/Vqq1cptagged: and we will say
When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he said.
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
“Do not shed his blood. Throw him into this pit in the wilderness, but do not lay a hand on him.” Reuben said this so that he could rescue Joseph from their hands and return him to his father.
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then Judah said to his brothers, “What profit will we gain if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”
- וַיֹּאמַ֑רvaiyomarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe or not.”
- וַיֹּאמְר֖וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
His father recognized it and said, “It is my son’s robe! A vicious animal has devoured him. Joseph has surely been torn to pieces!”
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
All his sons and daughters tried to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted. “No,” he said. “I will go down to Sheol mourning for my son.” So his father wept for him.
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then Judah said to Onan, “Sleep with your brother’s wife. Perform your duty as her brother-in-law and raise up offspring for your brother.”
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
Then Judah said to his daughter-in-law Tamar, “Live as a widow in your father’s house until my son Shelah grows up.” For he thought, “He may die too, like his brothers.” So Tamar went to live in her father’s house.
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- אָמַ֔רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he said
When Tamar was told, “Your father-in-law is going up to Timnah to shear his sheep,”
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
Not realizing that she was his daughter-in-law, he went over to her and said, “Come now, let me sleep with you.” “What will you give me for sleeping with you?” she inquired.
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙vatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
“I will send you a young goat from my flock,” Judah answered. But she replied, “Only if you leave me something as a pledge until you send it.”
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַתֹּ֕אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
“What pledge should I give you?” he asked. She answered, “Your seal and your cord, and the staff in your hand.” So he gave them to her and slept with her, and she became pregnant by him.
- וַיֹּ֗אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַתֹּ֗אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
He asked the men of that place, “Where is the shrine prostitute who was beside the road at Enaim?” “No shrine prostitute has been here,” they answered.
- לֵאמֹ֔רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- אָֽמְר֔וּʾameruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they said
“Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”
- לֵֽאמֹר֙lemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
As she was being brought out, Tamar sent a message to her father-in-law: “I am pregnant by the man to whom these items belong.” And she added, “Please examine them. Whose seal and cord and staff are these?”
- לֵאמֹ֔רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- וַתֹּ֙אמֶר֙vatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
Judah recognized the items and said, “She is more righteous than I, since I did not give her to my son Shelah.” And he did not have relations with her again.
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
And as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she announced.
- לֵאמֹ֔רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
But when he pulled his hand back and his brother came out, she said, “You have broken out first!” So he was named Perez.
- וַתֹּ֕אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
and after some time his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”
- וַתֹּ֖אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
But he refused. “Look,” he said to his master’s wife, “with me here, my master does not concern himself with anything in his house, and he has entrusted everything he owns to my care.
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
She grabbed Joseph by his cloak and said, “Sleep with me!” But leaving his cloak in her hand, he escaped and ran outside.
- לֵאמֹ֖רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
she called her household servants. “Look,” she said, “this Hebrew has been brought to us to make sport of us. He came to me so he could sleep with me, but I screamed as loud as I could.
- וַתֹּ֤אמֶרvatomerHc/Vqw3fstagged: and she said
- לֵאמֹ֔רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
Then she told him the same story: “The Hebrew slave you brought us came to me to make sport of me,
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
When his master heard the story his wife told him, saying, “This is what your slave did to me,” he burned with anger.
- לֵאמֹ֔רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
So he asked the officials of Pharaoh who were in custody with him in his master’s house, “Why are your faces so downcast today?”
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
“We both had dreams,” they replied, “but there is no one to interpret them.” Then Joseph said to them, “Don’t interpretations belong to God? Tell me your dreams.”
- וַיֹּאמְר֣וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֔אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- לֵאמֹ֔רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- לֵאמֹ֖רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- וָֽאֹמַר֙vaomarHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I said
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֧אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- אָמַ֣רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had said
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- יֹאמַ֥רyomarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will say
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- אָמַ֔רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he said
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֣אמְר֔וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּאמְר֥וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּאמְר֗וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
- וַיֹּ֥אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- לֵאמֹ֖רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּאמְר֞וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
- לֵאמֹ֗רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- אָמַ֨רְתִּיʾamartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: did I say
- לֵאמֹ֛רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- לֵאמֹ֔רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- לֵאמֹֽר׃lemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- וַנֹּ֥אמֶרvanomerHc/Vqw1cptagged: and we said
- וַיֹּ֣אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- לֵאמֹ֔רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- וַיֹּ֕אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֤אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֧אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- לֵאמֹ֑רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- לֵאמֹר֙lemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- אָמַ֤רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he said
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּאמְר֡וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
- לֵאמֹ֗רlemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- יֹאמַ֔רyomarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will say
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֨אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- אָמַ֣רʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he said
- וַיֹּאמְר֗וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
- וַיֹּאמְר֖וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
- וַיֹּאמֶר֩vaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֗אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- אֲמַרְתֶּ֑םʾamartemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you spoke
- וַיֹּאמְר֗וּvaiyomeruHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they said
- וַיֹּ֗אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- אֲמַרְתֶּ֖םʾamartemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you spoke
- וַיֹּאמַ֕רvaiyomarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- וַיֹּ֖אמֶרvaiyomerHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he said
- לֵאמֹר֒lemorpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to saying
- אָמַר֙ʾamarverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he said
- וְאָמַרְתָּ֣veamartaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will say
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How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in the first 120 verses where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.