מֵאמַר
mêʼmar · H3983 · Aramaic · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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order, decision
Words spoken by people in authority
ExamplesEzra 6:9 “And whatever is needed, bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine, and anointing oil, as the priests in Jerusalem order, it is to be given to them daily without fail,
Daniel 4:17 “This sentence is by the decree of the angelic watchers, And the decision is a command of the holy ones, In order that the living may know That the Most High is ruler over the realm of mankind, And He grants it to whomever He wishes And sets over it the lowliest of people.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- כָּהֵןpriest 1
- קַדִּישׁholy, saint 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- שְׁאֵלָאdemand 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כlike/as 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- דָּבָר dâbâr · H1697 · words, message, word
- דָּבָר is the most common Hebrew term for 'word' or 'matter' and frequently overlaps semantically with מֵאמַר in contexts of speech, command, or decree, though derived from a different root (דבר vs. אמר).
In the other Testament 2 words
- λόγος lógos · G3056 · word, saying, message
- λόγος is the standard Greek equivalent for Hebrew 'word' terminology, commonly rendering forms from the אמר root in LXX; it covers both the sense of 'word' and 'declaration/appointment' that מֵאמַר conveys.
- ῥῆμα rhēma · G4487 · word, saying, message
- ῥῆμα frequently translates Hebrew 'word' vocabulary from the אמר family in LXX, emphasizing the concrete utterance or command aspect that מֵאמַר can express.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Speak002004001009008
- Ezra 6:9 has King Darius decree, “whatever is needed, bulls, rams, and lambs for burnt offerings to the God of heaven, and wheat, salt, wine, and anointing oil, as the priests in Jerusalem order, it is to be given to them daily without fail.”
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3983. memar מֵאמַר noun [masculine] word; — construct Dan 4:14; Ezr 6:9.
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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