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# אׇמְנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H546

**verily** — used 2 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/1488/546/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָמְנָה²: adv. verily, truly, indeed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/546/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. (from אֹמֶן by affix ָה) verily, truly, indeed Gn 20:12 (E) Jos 7:20 (JE).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 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: truly (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 20:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.20.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.20.12/#tree)

וְגַם־אָמְנָ֗ה אֲחֹתִ֤י בַת־אָבִי֙ הִ֔וא אַ֖ךְ לֹ֣א בַת־אִמִּ֑י וַתְּהִי־לִ֖י לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and also truly sister \[is\].my the.daughter my.father my she only not the.daughter my.mother my and she.became for me (into).a wife

*JPS 1917:* And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and so she became my wife.

[Joshua 7:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.7.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.7.20/#tree)

וַיַּ֧עַן עָכָ֛ן אֶת־יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר אָמְנָ֗ה אָנֹכִ֤י חָטָ֙אתִי֙ לַֽיהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְכָזֹ֥את וְכָזֹ֖את עָשִֽׂיתִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Achan (et) Joshua and he.said truly I I.have.sinned to Yahweh the.God of.Israel and like this and like this I.have.done

*JPS 1917:* And Achan answered Joshua, and said: 'Of a truth I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/546/): 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).