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אָמַר

amar · say

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H559 · appears 5308 times in the Bible

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What it means

amar (אָמַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “say”.

Speak. The most common verb for bringing in what someone says; sometimes "think" (say to oneself) or "command".

How to say it

a·mar

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. To say with the mouth to someone what one thinks or wants, or to answer him.
  2. To speak inwardly without saying it aloud; to think.
  3. To give someone an order with authority, so that it is done.
  4. To give one's word that something will be done.
  5. To bear a name, to be called by it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

The basic Hebrew verb for “say”. It introduces almost everything anyone says, in narrative and in prophecy. The same word in Aramaic, אֲמַר, has its own note (H560). From the same root comes אֵמֶר, a saying (H561).

How we translate it

Almost always “say”: “said” 2978 times, “saying” 904, “say” 630, “says” 608; less often “spoke”, “told” or “tell”. “Saying” renders the Hebrew form that opens a quotation, like a spoken colon. Where the Hebrew says that someone “said” something to himself, this edition writes “said {to himself}”, marking the supplied words (Genesis 26:9; 38:11).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • said ×2978
  • saying ×904
  • say ×630
  • says ×608
  • spoke ×35
  • told ×34
  • tell ×23
  • speak ×15
  • be called ×6
  • have spoken ×5
  • others ×43

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 1:3

    And Elohim said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

  • Genesis 1:6

    And Elohim said, “Let there be a vault in the middle of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

  • Genesis 1:9

    And Elohim said, “Let the waters under the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry ground appear.” And it was so.

  • Genesis 1:11

    And Elohim said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation: plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit according to its kind, that has its seed in it, on the earth.” And it was so.

  • Genesis 1:14

    And Elohim said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years;

  • Genesis 1:20

    And Elohim said, “Let the waters swarm with swarms of living beings, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the vault of the heavens.”

  • Genesis 1:22

    And Elohim blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”

  • Genesis 1:24

    And Elohim said, “Let the earth bring forth living beings according to their kind: livestock and creeping things and animals of the earth according to their kind.” And it was so.

  • Genesis 1:26

    And Elohim said, “Let us make the human being in our image, according to our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

  • Genesis 1:28

    And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it, and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every animal that creeps on the earth.”

  • Genesis 1:29

    And Elohim said, “Look, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree that has fruit yielding seed; it will be food for you.

  • Genesis 2:16

    And YHWH Elohim commanded the man, saying, “From every tree of the garden you may freely eat;

  • Genesis 2:18

    And YHWH Elohim said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make for him a helper corresponding to him.”

  • Genesis 2:23

    And the man said, “This one, at last, is bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; this one will be called Woman, because from Man this one was taken.”

  • Genesis 3:1

    Now the serpent was more shrewd than any animal of the field that YHWH Elohim had made. And it said to the woman, “Did Elohim really say, ‘You shall not eat from any tree of the garden’?”

  • Genesis 3:2

    And the woman said to the serpent, “From the fruit of the trees of the garden we may eat;

  • Genesis 3:3

    but from the fruit of the tree that is in the middle of the garden Elohim has said, ‘You shall not eat from it, and you shall not touch it, or you will die.’”

  • Genesis 3:4

    And the serpent said to the woman, “You will certainly not die;

  • Genesis 3:9

    And YHWH Elohim called to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”

  • Genesis 3:10

    And he said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I am naked; and I hid.”

  • Genesis 3:11

    And he said, “Who told you that you are naked? Have you eaten from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”

  • Genesis 3:12

    And the man said, “The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me from the tree, and I ate.”

  • Genesis 3:13

    And YHWH Elohim said to the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”

  • Genesis 3:14

    And YHWH Elohim said to the serpent, “Because you have done this, cursed are you from among all the livestock and from among every animal of the field; on your belly you will go, and dust you will eat all the days of your life.

  • Genesis 3:16

    To the woman he said, “I will greatly multiply your toil and your pregnancies; with pain you will give birth to children; and toward your husband will be your desire, and he will rule over you.”

  • Genesis 3:17

    And to Adam he said, “Because you listened to the voice of your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it,’ cursed is the ground because of you; with toil you will eat from it all the days of your life.

  • Genesis 3:22

    And YHWH Elohim said, “Look, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil; and now, so that he does not reach out his hand and take also from the tree of life and eat and live forever—”

  • Genesis 4:1

    Now the man knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain, and she said, “I have acquired a man with YHWH.”

  • Genesis 4:6

    And YHWH said to Cain, “Why are you angry, and why has your face fallen?

  • Genesis 4:8

    And Cain said to Abel his brother … And it happened, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and killed him.

  • Genesis 4:9

    And YHWH said to Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” And he said, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?”

  • Genesis 4:10

    And he said, “What have you done? The voice of your brother’s blood is crying out to me from the ground.

  • Genesis 4:13

    And Cain said to YHWH, “My iniquity is too great to bear.

  • Genesis 4:15

    And YHWH said to him, “Therefore whoever kills Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” And YHWH put a sign on Cain, so that no one who found him would strike him.

  • Genesis 4:23

    And Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my saying: for a man I have killed for wounding me, and a young man for striking me.

  • Genesis 5:29

    And he called his name Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us from our work and from the toil of our hands, from the ground that YHWH has cursed.”

  • Genesis 6:3

    And YHWH said, “My spirit will not remain in the human being forever, for he also is flesh; and his days will be a hundred and twenty years.”

  • Genesis 6:7

    And YHWH said, “I will wipe out the human being whom I have created from the face of the ground, from human being to livestock, to creeping things and to the birds of the sky, for I am sorry that I made them.”

  • Genesis 6:13

    And Elohim said to Noah, “The end of all flesh has come before me, for the earth is filled with violence because of them; and look, I am going to destroy them with the earth.

  • Genesis 7:1

    And YHWH said to Noah, “Come, you and all your household, into the ark, for you I have seen to be righteous before me in this generation.

And 5268 more times.