Hebrew word study
אָמַרʼâmar — to say (used with great latitude)
Pronounced “aw-mar'”
to say (used with great latitude)
Translated in the King James as: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, [phrase] (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, desire, determine, expressly, indeed, intend, name, plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), still, suppose, talk, tell, term, that is, think, use (speech), utter, verily, yet.
Appears 5,114 times in Scripture
Origin: a primitive root;
Read it in context & ask Abram about this wordWhere it appears
Genesis — 590×
Genesis 1:3Genesis 1:6Genesis 1:9Genesis 1:11Genesis 1:14Genesis 1:20Genesis 1:22Genesis 1:24Genesis 1:26Genesis 1:28Genesis 1:29Genesis 2:18Genesis 2:23Genesis 3:1Genesis 3:2Genesis 3:3Genesis 3:4Genesis 3:10Genesis 3:11Genesis 3:12Genesis 3:13Genesis 3:14Genesis 3:16Genesis 3:17Genesis 3:22+ 565 more in Genesis
Exodus — 290×
Leviticus — 75×
Leviticus 1:1Leviticus 1:2Leviticus 4:1Leviticus 4:2Leviticus 5:14Leviticus 6:1Leviticus 6:8Leviticus 6:9Leviticus 6:19Leviticus 6:24Leviticus 6:25Leviticus 7:22Leviticus 7:23Leviticus 7:28Leviticus 7:29Leviticus 8:1Leviticus 8:5Leviticus 8:31Leviticus 9:2Leviticus 9:3Leviticus 9:6Leviticus 9:7Leviticus 10:3Leviticus 10:4Leviticus 10:6+ 50 more in Leviticus
Numbers — 236×
Numbers 1:1Numbers 1:48Numbers 2:1Numbers 3:5Numbers 3:11Numbers 3:14Numbers 3:40Numbers 3:44Numbers 4:1Numbers 4:17Numbers 4:21Numbers 5:1Numbers 5:5Numbers 5:11Numbers 5:12Numbers 5:19Numbers 5:22Numbers 6:1Numbers 6:2Numbers 6:22Numbers 6:23Numbers 7:4Numbers 7:11Numbers 8:1Numbers 8:2+ 211 more in Numbers
Deuteronomy — 138×
Deuteronomy 1:5Deuteronomy 1:9Deuteronomy 1:14Deuteronomy 1:16Deuteronomy 1:20Deuteronomy 1:22Deuteronomy 1:25Deuteronomy 1:27Deuteronomy 1:28Deuteronomy 1:29Deuteronomy 1:34Deuteronomy 1:37Deuteronomy 1:39Deuteronomy 1:41Deuteronomy 1:42Deuteronomy 2:2Deuteronomy 2:4Deuteronomy 2:9Deuteronomy 2:17Deuteronomy 2:26Deuteronomy 2:31Deuteronomy 3:2Deuteronomy 3:18Deuteronomy 3:21Deuteronomy 3:23+ 113 more in Deuteronomy
Joshua — 130×
Judges — 259×
Ruth — 54×
1 Samuel — 405×
2 Samuel — 318×
1 Kings — 306×
2 Kings — 330×
1 Chronicles — 68×
2 Chronicles — 175×
Ezra — 15×
Nehemiah — 60×
Nehemiah 1:3Nehemiah 1:5Nehemiah 1:8Nehemiah 2:2Nehemiah 2:3Nehemiah 2:4Nehemiah 2:5Nehemiah 2:6Nehemiah 2:7Nehemiah 2:17Nehemiah 2:18Nehemiah 2:19Nehemiah 2:20Nehemiah 4:2Nehemiah 4:3Nehemiah 4:10Nehemiah 4:11Nehemiah 4:12Nehemiah 4:14Nehemiah 4:19Nehemiah 4:22Nehemiah 5:2Nehemiah 5:3Nehemiah 5:4Nehemiah 5:7+ 35 more in Nehemiah
Esther — 51×
Job — 96×
Psalms — 98×
Proverbs — 25×
Proverbs 1:11Proverbs 1:21Proverbs 3:28Proverbs 4:4Proverbs 5:12Proverbs 7:4Proverbs 7:13Proverbs 9:4Proverbs 9:16Proverbs 20:9Proverbs 20:14Proverbs 20:22Proverbs 22:13Proverbs 23:7Proverbs 24:12Proverbs 24:24Proverbs 24:29Proverbs 25:7Proverbs 26:13Proverbs 26:19Proverbs 28:24Proverbs 30:9Proverbs 30:15Proverbs 30:16Proverbs 30:20
Ecclesiastes — 20×
Song of Solomon — 1×
Isaiah — 239×
Jeremiah — 455×
Jeremiah 1:4Jeremiah 1:6Jeremiah 1:7Jeremiah 1:9Jeremiah 1:11Jeremiah 1:12Jeremiah 1:13Jeremiah 1:14Jeremiah 2:1Jeremiah 2:2Jeremiah 2:5Jeremiah 2:6Jeremiah 2:8Jeremiah 2:20Jeremiah 2:23Jeremiah 2:25Jeremiah 2:27Jeremiah 2:31Jeremiah 2:35Jeremiah 3:6Jeremiah 3:7Jeremiah 3:11Jeremiah 3:16Jeremiah 3:19Jeremiah 4:3+ 430 more in Jeremiah
Ezekiel — 360×
Ezekiel 2:1Ezekiel 2:3Ezekiel 2:4Ezekiel 3:1Ezekiel 3:3Ezekiel 3:4Ezekiel 3:10Ezekiel 3:11Ezekiel 3:16Ezekiel 3:18Ezekiel 3:22Ezekiel 3:24Ezekiel 3:27Ezekiel 4:13Ezekiel 4:14Ezekiel 4:15Ezekiel 4:16Ezekiel 5:5Ezekiel 5:7Ezekiel 5:8Ezekiel 6:1Ezekiel 6:3Ezekiel 6:11Ezekiel 7:1Ezekiel 7:2+ 335 more in Ezekiel
Daniel — 23×
Hosea — 22×
Amos — 51×
Obadiah — 2×
Jonah — 22×
Nahum — 2×
Habakkuk — 3×
Haggai — 25×
Zechariah — 101×
Malachi — 40×
Malachi 1:2Malachi 1:4Malachi 1:5Malachi 1:6Malachi 1:7Malachi 1:8Malachi 1:9Malachi 1:10Malachi 1:11Malachi 1:12Malachi 1:13Malachi 1:14Malachi 2:2Malachi 2:4Malachi 2:8Malachi 2:14Malachi 2:16Malachi 2:17Malachi 3:1Malachi 3:5Malachi 3:7Malachi 3:8Malachi 3:10Malachi 3:11Malachi 3:12+ 15 more in Malachi
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