1. אָמַר
אָמַר 5287 vb. utter, say
Qal
1 Say
2 Say in the heart (= think)
3 Promise
4 Command (esp. late)
Niph. be said, told
Hiph. avow, avouch (lit. cause to declare)
Hithp. act proudly, boast
The corpus record — Hebrew
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר
amar · vb
utter, say
Generated live from the audited Hebrew corpus — every figure on this page is a database query, not prose from memory.
Where it lives
- Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) 5,318 · 173.35/10k
What it meant
2. אָמַר
to say (used with great latitude)
In the wild
- וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר 1 Chronicles 10:4 (BHS)
- וַ/יֹּאמַ֑ר 1 Chronicles 11:17 (BHS)
- וַ/יֹּ֡אמֶר 1 Chronicles 11:19 (BHS)
- לֵ/אמֹ֑ר 1 Chronicles 11:1 (BHS)
- וַ/יֹּאמֶר֩ 1 Chronicles 11:2 (BHS)
- וַ/יֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ 1 Chronicles 11:5 (BHS)
6 of 5,318 attestations shown.
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission.
Hebrew text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology and lemmatization from the OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible (OSHB), CC BY 4.0. Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB) lexicon, public domain.