a.mar introduces spoken statements, questions, commands, reports, and quoted declarations in the biblical narratives.

Across the supplied verses, a.mar marks the act of voicing a message, most often introducing direct speech: speakers make requests, issue instructions, ask questions, report matters, or state declarations. The same speech use appears in sequential imperfect forms, infinitive constructs that frame quoted material, and imperative forms directing someone to convey words.

1. Voicing a statement or message · dominant

   The sequential imperfect form introduces spoken words in varied settings: in 1 Chronicles 10:4 Saul addresses his armor-bearer with a request, while in 1 Chronicles 11:6 David announces the condition for becoming head and commander. Infinitive constructs frame a group's declaration in 1 Chronicles 11:1 and a quoted promise in 1 Chronicles 16:18; the imperative in 1 Chronicles 16:35 directs the people to voice a plea to God.

   1 Chronicles 10:41 Chronicles 11:61 Chronicles 11:11 Chronicles 16:181 Chronicles 16:351 Chronicles 17:7

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the speech action with wording such as "said," "saying," "tell," "speak," and "instructed" across these verses. Those English choices show the verse-level presentation rather than fixed separate renderings of the lemma.