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# אֻמְנָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H552

**verily** — used 5 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/1488/552/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֻמְנָם: adv. verily, truly, indeed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/552/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. (from אֹמֶן by aff. ָם) verily, truly, indeed, always in interrog. Gn 18:13 (J), elsewhere הַאֻמְנָם Nu 22:37 (E) 1 K 8:27 2 Ch 6:18 ψ 58:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: really (5).

## In the verses

[Psalms 58:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.2/#tree)

הַֽאֻמְנָ֗ם אֵ֣לֶם צֶ֭דֶק תְּדַבֵּר֑וּן מֵישָׁרִ֥ים תִּ֝שְׁפְּט֗וּ בְּנֵ֣י אָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* ? really silence of.righteousness do you.speak uprightness(es) do.you.judge? \[the\].children of.humankind

*JPS 1917:* Do ye indeed speak as a righteous company? Do ye judge with equity the sons of men?

[Genesis 18:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.18.13/#tree)

וַיֹּ֥אמֶר יְהוָ֖ה אֶל־אַבְרָהָ֑ם לָ֣מָּה זֶּה֩ צָחֲקָ֨ה שָׂרָ֜ה לֵאמֹ֗ר הַאַ֥ף אֻמְנָ֛ם אֵלֵ֖ד וַאֲנִ֥י זָקַֽנְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Yahweh to Abraham why? this did.she.laugh Sarah (cmp) ? also really will.I.bear.a.child and I I.am.old

*JPS 1917:* And the LORD said unto Abraham: 'Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying: Shall I of a surety bear a child, who am old?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/552/): 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).