Amen
אָמֵןStrong’s H0543amen (a-men)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Amen is the Hebrew word usually translated “amen” and “surely”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.”
Meaning
- Verily, truly, amen, so be it
How it's translated
- amen 25
- and amen 3
- surely 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 12
- Psalms 4
- Nehemiah 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Numbers 1
- 1 Kings 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 27:15Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 27:16Cursed be he that setteth light by his father or his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 27:17Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 27:18Cursed be he that maketh the blind to wander out of the way. And all the people shall say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 27:19Cursed be he that perverteth the judgment of the stranger, fatherless, and widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 27:20Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife; because he uncovereth his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.
Hebrew dictionary
אָמֵן amen · amen
verily, truly, amen, so be it
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “surely” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SU'RELY, adverb
Certainly; infallibly; undoubtedly.
- “In the day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die” Genesis 2:17
- Firmly; without danger of falling.“He that walketh uprightly, walketh surely” Proverbs 10:9
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.