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# אׇמְנָם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H551

**verily** — used 9 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/1488/551/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָמְנָם: adv. verily, truly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/551/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adv. (= אֻמְנָם) verily, truly, in asseverations 2 K 19:17 (= Is 37:18) Jb 19:4, 5; 34:12; 36:4 Ru 3:12, also ironical Jb 9:2; 12:2.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 9 of its verses cited, 1 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: truly (9).

## In the verses

[Job 12:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.2/#tree)

אָ֭מְנָם כִּ֣י אַתֶּם־עָ֑ם וְ֝עִמָּכֶ֗ם תָּמ֥וּת חָכְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* truly (dm) you \[are.the\].people and with you it.will.die wisdom

*JPS 1917:* No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

[Job 19:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.4/#tree)

וְאַף־אָמְנָ֥ם שָׁגִ֑יתִי אִ֝תִּ֗י תָּלִ֥ין מְשׁוּגָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and even truly I.have.erred with me it.lodges error my

*JPS 1917:* And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/551.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/551/): 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).