1. word, speech, utterance — The masculine noun אֵמֶר meaning 'word, speech, utterance, saying', a poetic synonym of דָּבָר found primarily in Wisdom literature (Job, Psalms, Proverbs). Both clusters share identical semantic content with no discernible difference in meaning: S83172 (4x) and S83173 (2x) both translate uniformly as 'word/speech' across all target languages: eng 'speech/word', spa 'palabra', hin 'वचन/बात', arb 'كَلِمَةً/قَوْلٌ', kor '말씀/말', swa 'maneno/neno/jambo'. The slight variation in Arabic (كَلِمَةً vs قَوْلٌ) and Swahili (maneno vs jambo) reflects contextual translation choices, not distinct senses. These are the same lexicographic meaning. 6×
AR["أَمْرًا","قَوْلٌ","قَوْلُهُ","كَلاَمًا","كَلاَمٌ","كَلِمَةً"]·ben["কথা","বচন","বাক্য"]·DE["[אומר]","der-Wort","sein-Verheissung","speech","sprach"]·EN["His-promise","a-word","is-a-word","speech","the-word"]·FR["a-dit","dire","אומר"]·heb["אומר"]·HI["ओमेर","बात","वचन"]·ID["firman","firman.","perkataan"]·IT["disse","parola","un-parola"]·jav["janji","pangandika","pangandikan","tembung"]·KO["말-이","말씀-을","말씀-이","말씀-이니이다","말을"]·PT["a-palavra","palavra","uma-palavra"]·RU["речи","слово"]·ES["palabra"]·SW["ahadi","jambo","maneno","neno"]·TR["söz","sözü"]·urd["بات","بول","کلام"]
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BDB / Lexicon Reference
† [אֵמֶר], אֹמֶר n.m. ψ 77, 9 speech, word, only poet., & Jos 24:27 exalted style;—abs. אוֹ׳ Jb 22:28 + 5 times; sf. אִמְרוֹ Jb 20:29; Pl. abs. אֲמָרִים Pr 19:7; 22:21; cstr. אִמְרֵי Nu 24:4 +; אֲמָרָיו Jb 22:22; אִמְרֵיכֶם Jb 32:14; Is 41:26 (on deriv. from אֹמֶר cf. Di Jb 33:33) etc.;— 1. utterance, word, especially pl. Jb. 6:26 (‖ מִלִּים) 32:12, 14 (‖ מִלִּין) 33:3; 34:37; ψ 5:2 (‖ הָגִיג),…