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# אִמְרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H565

**utterance** — used 36 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

utterance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/565/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אִמְרָה: n.f. utterance, speech, word [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/565/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. utterance, speech, word (poet., mostly sg. coll., cf. pl. vb. ψ 119:103; but here read prob. pl. n. cf. 𝔊 Ol Hi De Che)—cstr. אִמְרַת Is 5:24 +; אִמְרָתִי Gn 4:23 + etc.; Pl. abs. אֲמָרוֹת ψ 12:7; cstr. אִמְרֹת ib.;—utterance, speech Gn 4:23 (song of Lamech, ‖ קוֹל) so Is 28:23; 29:4; 32:9; Dt 32:2 (‖ לֶקַח), ψ 17:6; Is 29:4 (w. נָשָׂא, צִפְצֵף); especially saying(s), word(s) of י׳ (command & promise) Dt 33:9 (‖ בְּרִית); Is 5:24 (‖ תּוֹרָה) 2 S 22:31 = ψ 18:31; ψ 12:7; 105:19 (‖ דָּבָר); especially ψ 119:11, 38, 41 + 16 times; 138:2; 147:15 (‖ דָּבָר), Pr 30:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 3 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: word (17); the word (5); to (5).

## In the verses

[Psalms 105:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.19/#tree)

עַד־עֵ֥ת בֹּֽא־דְבָר֑וֹ אִמְרַ֖ת יְהוָ֣ה צְרָפָֽתְהוּ׃

*Word for word:* until the.time came word his the.word of.Yahweh it tested.him

*JPS 1917:* Until the time that his word came to pass, the word of the LORD tested him.

[Psalms 119:67](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.67/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.119.67/#tree)

טֶ֣רֶם אֶ֭עֱנֶה אֲנִ֣י שֹׁגֵ֑ג וְ֝עַתָּ֗ה אִמְרָתְךָ֥ שָׁמָֽרְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* before I.was.afflicted I \[was\].going.astray and now word your I.keep

*JPS 1917:* Before I was afflicted, I did err; but now I observe Thy word.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/565.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/565/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).