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H0559אָמַרa.mar
to sayPart of speech: Hebrew Verb
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And Jonathan said unto David: `The LORD, the God of Israel--when I have sounded my father about this time to-morrow, or the third day, behold, if there be good toward David, shall I not then send unto thee, and disclose it unto thee?
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And Jonathan said unto him: 'To-morrow is the new moon; and thou wilt be missed, thy seat will be empty.
וַיֹּֽאמֶר־ (יֹּֽאמֶר) i.yo.mer- “he said”
And, behold, I will send the lad: Go, find the arrows. If I say unto the lad: Behold, the arrows are on this side of thee; take them, and come; for there is peace to thee and no hurt, as the LORD liveth.
אָמֹר֩ 'a.Mor “certainly [if] <to say>”אֹמַ֨ר 'o.Mar “I will say”
But if I say thus unto the boy: Behold, the arrows are beyond thee; go thy way; for the LORD hath sent thee away.
אֹמַר֙ 'o.Mar “I will say”
Nevertheless Saul spoke not any thing that day; for he thought: 'Something hath befallen him, he is unclean; surely he is not clean.'
אָמַר֙ 'a.Mar “he said”
And it came to pass on the morrow after the new moon, which was the second day, that David's place was empty; and Saul said unto Jonathan his son: 'Wherefore cometh not the son of Jesse to the meal, neither yesterday, nor to-day?'
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
and he said: Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me; and now, if I have found favour in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he is not come unto the ki
וַיֹּ֡אמֶר (יֹּ֡אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
Then Saul's anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him: 'Thou son of perverse rebellion, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and unto the shame of thy mother's nakedness?
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And Jonathan answered Saul his father, and said unto him: 'Wherefore should he be put to death? what hath he done?'
וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (יֹּ֧אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And he said unto his lad: 'Run, find now the arrows which I shoot.' And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said: `Is not the arrow beyond thee?'
וַיֹּ֔אמֶר (יֹּ֔אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And Jonathan gave his weapons unto his lad, and said unto him: 'Go, carry them to the city.'
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
42And Jonathan said to David: 'Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the LORD, saying: The LORD shall be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed, for ever.' 1And he arose and departed; and Jonathan went into
וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (יֹּ֧אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”לֵאמֹ֔ר (אמֹ֔ר) Mor “saying”
Then came David to Nob to Ahimelech the priest; and Ahimelech came to meet David trembling, and said unto him: 'Why art thou alone, and no man with thee?'
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And David said unto Ahimelech the priest: 'The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me: Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee; and the young men have I appointed to such a
וַיֹּ֨אמֶר (יֹּ֨אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And the priest answered David, and said: 'There is no common bread under my hand, but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.'
וַיֹּ֔אמֶר (יֹּ֔אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And David answered the priest, and said unto him: 'Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day, when there s
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And David said unto Ahimelech: 'And is there peradventure here under thy hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king's business required haste.'
וַיֹּ֤אמֶר (יֹּ֤אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And the priest said: 'The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the vale of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod; if thou wilt take that, take it; for there is no other save that here.' And David said: 'The
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”וַיֹּ֧אמֶר (יֹּ֧אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And the servants of Achish said unto him: 'Is not this David the king of the land? Did they not sing one to another of him in dances, saying: Saul hath slain his thousands, and David his ten thousands?'
וַיֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ (יֹּ֨אמְר֜וּ) i.Yo.me.Ru “they said”לֵאמֹ֔ר (אמֹ֔ר) Mor “saying”
Then said Achish unto his servants: 'Lo, when ye see a man that is mad, wherefore do ye bring him to me?
וַיֹּ֥אמֶר (יֹּ֥אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And David went thence to Mizpeh of Moab; and he said unto the king of Moab: 'Let my father and my mother, I pray thee, come forth, and be with you, till I know what God will do for me.'
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר׀ (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
And the prophet Gad said unto David: 'Abide not in the stronghold; depart, and get thee into the land of Judah.' Then David departed, and came into the forest of Hereth.
וַיֹּאמֶר֩ (יֹּאמֶר֩) i.yo.Mer “he said”
And Saul said unto his servants that stood about him: 'Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, will he make you all captains of thousands and captains of hundreds;
וַיֹּ֣אמֶר (יֹּ֣אמֶר) i.Yo.mer “he said”
Then answered Doeg the Edomite, who was set over the servants of Saul, and said: 'I saw the son of Jesse coming to Nob, to Ahimelech the son of Ahitub.
וַיֹּאמַ֑ר (יֹּאמַ֑ר) i.yo.Mar “he said”