a.mar marks utterance in dialogue, proclamation, commands, and reported speech in the biblical passages supplied.

The supplied passages show a.mar as the verb used when speakers introduce or deliver words: people answer a king, give a report, issue a command, or set speech within a narrated exchange. Its forms occur especially in dialogue formulas, while imperatives and imperfects show requested, intended, or future speech.

1. Speaking or delivering words in an exchange · dominant

   The active participle frequently introduces a speaker's words: in Daniel 2:27 Daniel answers the king before the APB renders his statement about the mystery, and in Daniel 3:25 the king's utterance introduces what he sees in the fire. The same use frames commands and public statements: in Daniel 3:26 Nebuchadnezzar addresses the three men to come out, while the imperative in Daniel 2:4 occurs in the request that the king tell the dream. In Ezra 5:4, the first-person plural perfect accompanies the community's answer concerning the builders' names.

   Daniel 2:27Daniel 3:25Daniel 3:26Daniel 2:4Daniel 3:29Ezra 5:4

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the surrounding clauses with “answered and said,” and elsewhere uses wording such as “spoke,” “tell,” or “commanded.” These English choices show the verse-level presentation of speech rather than fixed equivalents for the term.