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H0559אָמַרa.mar
to sayPart of speech: Hebrew Verb
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And Saul sent to Jesse, saying: 'Let David, I pray thee, stand before me; for he hath found favour in my sight.'
לֵאמֹ֑ר (אמֹ֑ר) Mor “saying”
And he stood and cried unto the armies of Israel, and said unto them: 'Why do ye come out to set your battle in array? am not I a Philistine, and ye servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And the Philistine said: 'I do taunt the armies of Israel this day; give me a man, that we may fight together.'
וַיֹּ֙אמֶר֙ (יֹּ֙אמֶר֙) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And Jesse said unto David his son: 'Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched corn, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to thy brethren.
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And the men of Israel said: 'Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to taunt Israel is he come up; and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's hou
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀ (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And David spoke to the men that stood by him, saying: 'What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the taunt from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should have taunted the armies of the living God?'
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”לֵאמֹר֒ (אמֹר֒) Mor “saying”
And the people answered him after this manner, saying: 'So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.'
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “it said”לֵאמֹ֑ר (אמֹ֑ר) Mor “saying”
And Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke unto the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said: 'Why art thou come down? and with whom hast thou left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know thy presumptuousness, and the naughti
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀ (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And David said: 'What have I now done? Was it not but a word?'
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And he turned away from him toward another, and spoke after the same manner; and the people answered him after the former manner.
וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (יֹּ֖אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And David said to Saul: 'Let no man's heart fail within him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.'
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And Saul said to David: 'Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.'
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And David said unto Saul: 'Thy servant kept his father's sheep; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock,
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And David said: 'The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, He will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine.' And Saul said unto David: 'Go, and the LORD shall be with thee.'
וַיֹּאמֶר֮ (יֹּאמֶר֮) i.yo.Mer “he said”וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And David girded his sword upon his apparel, and he essayed to go ,but could not; for he had not tried it. And David said unto Saul: 'I cannot go with these; for I have not tried them.' And David put them off him.
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And the Philistine said unto David: 'Am I a dog, that thou comest to me with staves?' And the Philistine cursed David by his god.
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And the Philistine said to David: 'Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air, and to the beasts of the field.'
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (יֹּ֥אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
Then said David to the Philistine: 'Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin; but I come to thee in the name of the LORD of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast taunted.
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And when Saul saw David go forth against the Philistine, he said unto Abner, the captain of the host: 'Abner, whose son is this youth?' And Abner said: 'As thy soul liveth, O king, I cannot tell.'
אָמַ֗ר 'a.Mar “he said”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And the king said: 'Inquire thou whose son the stripling is.'
וַיֹּ֖אמֶר (יֹּ֖אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And Saul said to him: 'Whose son art thou, thou young man?' And David answered: 'I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite.'
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And the women sang one to another in their play, and said: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands.
וַתֹּאמַ֑רְןָ (תֹּאמַ֑רְןָ) to.Mar.na “they said”
And Saul was very wroth, and this saying displeased him; and he said: 'They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands; and all he lacketh is the kingdom!'
וַיֹּ֗אמֶר (יֹּ֗אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And Saul cast the spear; for he said: 'I will smite David even to the wall.' And David stepped aside out of his presence twice.
וַיֹּ֕אמֶר (יֹּ֕אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And Saul said to David: 'Behold my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife; only be thou valiant for me, and fight the LORD'S battles.' For Saul said: 'Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.'
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”אָמַ֗ר 'a.Mar “he said”