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# אָמֵן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H543

**verily** — used 30 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

verily [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/543/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָמֵן: adv. verily, truly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/543/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. verily, truly Dt 27:15–26 (12 times) 1 K 1:36 Ne 5:13 Je 11:5; 28:6 & doxologies 1 Ch 16:36 (= ψ 106:48); אָמֵן (ו)אָמֵן Nu 5:22 (P) Ne 8:6, & in the doxologies ψ 41:14; 72:19; 89:53; 106:48. ἀμήν = Amen: אֱלֹהֵי אָמֵן Is 65:16(×2) God of Amen De Che RVm; cf. Rev 3:14, or God of faithfulness, God of truth (RV) (perhaps read אֹמֶן Che Di).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: amen (28); of surely (2).

## In the verses

[Psalms 89:53](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.53/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.89.53/#tree)

בָּר֖וּךְ יְהוָ֥ה לְ֝עוֹלָ֗ם אָ֘מֵ֥ן ׀ וְאָמֵֽן׃

*Word for word:* \[be\].blessed Yahweh forever of.perpetuity amen and amen

*JPS 1917:* Blessed be the LORD for evermore. Amen, and Amen.

[Deuteronomy 27:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.27.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.27.17/#tree)

אָר֕וּר מַסִּ֖יג גְּב֣וּל רֵעֵ֑הוּ וְאָמַ֥ר כָּל־הָעָ֖ם אָמֵֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* \[is\].cursed \[one.who\].displaces the.boundary his.neighbor his and it.will.say all the people amen

*JPS 1917:* Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say: Amen.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/543/): 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).