Truly
אֻמְנָםStrong’s H0552umnam (um-nam)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Umnam is the Hebrew word usually translated “really”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD said unto Abraham, Wherefore did Sarah laugh, saying, Shall I of a surety bear a child, which am old?”
Meaning
- Verily, truly, indeed
How it's translated
- really 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Psalms 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 22:37And Balak said unto Balaam, Did I not earnestly send unto thee to call thee? wherefore camest thou not unto me? am I not able indeed to promote thee to honour?
- 1 Kings 8:27But will God indeed dwell on the earth? behold, the heaven and heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded?
- 2 Chronicles 6:18But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have built!
- Psalms 58:1Do ye indeed speak righteousness, O congregation? do ye judge uprightly, O ye sons of men?
Hebrew dictionary
אֻמְנָם umnam · 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.