Truly
אׇמְנָהStrong’s H0546omnah (om-nah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Omnah is the Hebrew word usually translated “truly”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And yet indeed she is my sister; she is the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.”
Meaning
- Verily, truly, indeed
How it's translated
- truly 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Joshua 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
אׇמְנָה omnah · truly
verily, truly, indeed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “truly” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TRU'LY, adverb
[from true.]
In fact; in deed; in reality.
- According to truth; in agreement with fact; as, to see things truly; the facts are truly represented.
- Sincerely; honestly; really; faithfully; as, to be truly attached to a lover.
- Exactly; justly; as, to estimate truly the weight of evidence.
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.