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# אׇמְנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H545

**bringing up** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

bringing up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/545/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָמְנָה: n.f. bringing up, nourishment [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/545/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. bringing up, nourishment, Est 2:20.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: guardianship (1).

## In the verses

[Esther 2:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.2.20/#tree)

אֵ֣ין אֶסְתֵּ֗ר מַגֶּ֤דֶת מֽוֹלַדְתָּהּ֙ וְאֶת־עַמָּ֔הּ כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר צִוָּ֥ה עָלֶ֖יהָ מָרְדֳּכָ֑י וְאֶת־מַאֲמַ֤ר מָרְדֳּכַי֙ אֶסְתֵּ֣ר עֹשָׂ֔ה כַּאֲשֶׁ֛ר הָיְתָ֥ה בְאָמְנָ֖ה אִתּֽוֹ׃ס

*Word for word:* not Esther \[was\].telling kindred her and (et) people her just as he.had.commanded to her Mordecai and (et) the.command of.Mordecai Esther \[was\].doing just as she.had.been in guardianship with him

*JPS 1917:* Esther had not yet made known her kindred nor her people; as Mordecai had charged her; for Esther did the commandment of Mordecai, like as when she was brought up with him —

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/545/): 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).