אָמַר ʼâmar — to say (used with great latitude)
Translated in the KJV as answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, (at the, give) command, commune.
a primitive root; to say (used with great latitude).
ʼâmar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Wayyiqtol 2723Infinitive construct 963Perfect (qatal) 915Sequential perfect (weqatal) 249Imperfect (yiqtol) 227Participle (active) 98Imperative 88Jussive 21Infinitive absolute 7Cohortative 2Participle (passive) 1
And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
Niph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 19Wayyiqtol 1Perfect (qatal) 1
He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.
And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah–jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of the Lord it shall be seen.
And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 2
Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
How long shall they utter and speak hard things? and all the workers of iniquity boast themselves?
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›