עָמַר

amar · treat as a slave

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H6014 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

amar (עָמַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “treat as a slave”.

Treat someone as a slave or as merchandise, deal harshly with him.

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 use a person as property.
  2. To gather and tie the cut stalks.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • he treats him as a slave ×1
  • one who binds sheaves ×1
  • treat her as a slave ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

  • Deuteronomy 21:14

    And if you are not pleased with her, you shall let her go wherever she wishes; but you shall certainly not sell her for silver; you shall not treat her as a slave, because you have humiliated her.

  • Deuteronomy 24:7

    If a man is found stealing a person from his brothers, from the sons of Israel, and he treats him as a slave and sells him, then that thief shall die. So you shall remove the evil from your midst.

  • Psalms 129:7

    with which the reaper does not fill his hand, nor the one who binds sheaves his lap;