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Amen
Featured studies
2 results- StudyThe words your Bible left in their own languageAmen, hallelujah, hosanna, selah, abba, jot and tittle: the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek words every English Bible declined to translate.
- StudyAlpha (Αα): the Greek letterThe first letter, borrowed from an ox, and the letter that gave Europe its vowels.
Verses
56 results- VersePsalms 89:52Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen.
- VerseGalatians 1:5to whom be glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Verse1 Peter 5:11To Him be the power forever and ever. Amen.
- VersePsalms 41:13Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
- VerseRomans 15:33The God of peace be with all of you. Amen.
People
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1 resultManuscripts
4 results- ManuscriptSeptuagintThe Greek Old Testament, translated in the third century BC and after. It is a family of copies, and the site holds the chief ones.
- ManuscriptCodex SinaiticusA 4th-century Greek manuscript of the Christian Bible, one of the two earliest substantially complete witnesses to the Septuagint and New Testament.
- ManuscriptThe Rylands Fragment of John (P52)A scrap of John's Gospel about the size of a credit card, and for most of a century the oldest piece of the New Testament anyone had.
- ManuscriptThe Greek Minor Prophets Scroll (8ḤevXII gr)A Greek Old Testament from the Judaean desert that somebody had already gone through and corrected against the Hebrew — and that leaves the name of God in the old letters.
Words (Strong's)
- WordH543 אָמֵן · ʼâmên (Hebrew)sure. The Hebrew word stands 30 times in the original text.
- WordG281 ἀμήν · amḗn (Greek)properly, firm, i.e. (figuratively) trustworthy. The Greek word stands 127 times in the original text.
- WordH2388 חָזַק · châzaq (Hebrew)to fasten upon. The Hebrew word stands 291 times in the original text.
- WordH3190 יָטַב · yâṭab (Hebrew)to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right). The Hebrew word stands 117 times in the original text.
- WordH7999 שָׁלַם · shâlam (Hebrew)to be safe (in mind, body or estate). The Hebrew word stands 116 times in the original text.
Concepts
19 results- ConceptSeedOne word that carries the whole promise: a line of descent that narrows, verse by verse, to one Person.
- ConceptGloryThe weight of God made visible: כָּבוֹד, literally heaviness: filling a tabernacle, a temple, and finally a body.
- ConceptLightGod's first spoken word and his own self-description: light before the sun, and a Light no darkness can put out.
- ConceptEdenThe garden God planted eastward: a sanctuary with a river, two trees, and a job description, lost by one command broken.
- ConceptTreesThe Bible's story turns at trees: two in the garden, one bearing a curse, one bearing healing for the nations.
Themes
11 results- ThemeRedemptionRedemption is the Bible's word for rescue that costs something. Two Hebrew verbs carry the weight: *ga'al*, the act of a near kinsman (*go'el*) who buys back land, a person, or…
- ThemeFaith**Faith across the canon is less a feeling than a transaction: a person trusts what God has said and acts on it before the outcome is visible.** The Old Testament rarely uses…
- ThemeGraceGrace is God's unearned favor. The Hebrew word for it is *chen* — a gift given because the giver is gracious, not because the receiver has earned it — and it is *chen* that the…
- ThemeLoveThe Old Testament's word for it is *chesed* — not a feeling but a covenant posture: steadfast, loyal, obligated love that keeps showing up whether or not it is deserved. God's…
- ThemeForgivenessForgiveness in Scripture is not a sentiment but a transaction: a debt is real, and someone absorbs it. The Old Testament establishes this before it ever preaches it. The…
Topics
5 results- TopicAmenA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicFirmamentA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicLamenessA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicLamentationsA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
- TopicTestamentA heading of Nave's Topical Bible (1896): every passage it gathers, quoted.
Prophecies
1 resultApologetics
4 results- ApologeticsIsrael's Regathering: A Nation Reborn in a DayMultiple Old Testament prophets predicted that Israel would be scattered and then regathered from all nations—a prediction fulfilled uniquely in 1948 when the modern State of…
- ApologeticsHittite Empire ConfirmationNineteenth-century critics treated the Old Testament's Hittites as a people invented by the biblical writers. In 1906 Hugo Winckler's excavation at Boğazköy in central Turkey…
- ApologeticsCodex Sinaiticus (~350 AD)Codex Sinaiticus, copied around AD 330–360, is the oldest surviving complete New Testament and the oldest Christian Bible bound in a single volume. Its roughly 400 surviving…
- ApologeticsP52 (Rylands Papyrus P457, ~125 AD)Rylands Greek Papyrus 457 — a credit-card-sized scrap of a papyrus codex carrying John 18:31–33 on one side and 18:37–38 on the other — is the oldest identified copy of any New…
Voices
80 results- VoiceJoseph A. SeissJoseph Augustus Seiss was born on March 18, 1823, at Graceham, Maryland, into a family of Moravian descent. He attended Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg, studied theology…
- VoiceJeromeEusebius Hieronymus was born about 347 at Stridon, a town on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia that no longer exists. His parents were Christians with money. They sent him to…
- VoiceTiconiusTyconius — the name is also spelled Ticonius — was a North African layman who wrote in the second half of the fourth century. He died about 390. He was a Donatist, and he was…
- VoiceAdamantiusAdamantius is a name attached to a book rather than a life. The book is a Greek dialogue called *On the True Faith in God* — in Latin, *De recta in Deum fide* — and it was…
- VoiceHegemoniusHegemonius is the name attached to a book called the *Acts of Archelaus*, written in the first half of the fourth century. Nothing about the man survives; the name comes from…
Apocrypha (study resources)
22 results- Study resourceTobit 8:8A study resource outside the 66-book canon, labelled as such.
- Study resource1 Maccabees 2:11All her ornaments are taken away; of a free woman she is become a bondslave.
- Study resourceSirach 21:21Learning is unto a wise man as an ornament of gold, and like a bracelet upon his right arm.
- Study resourceSirach 6:30For there is a golden ornament upon her, and her bands are purple lace.
- Study resource1 Esdras 9:47And all the people answered, Amen; and lifting up their hands they fell to the ground, and worshipped the Lord.
Doorways
Study a word
H543אָמֵן ʼâmên — sureG281ἀμήν amḗn — properly, firm, i.e. (figuratively)
trustworthyH2388חָזַק châzaq — to fasten uponH3190יָטַב yâṭab — to be (causative) make well, literally (sound, beautiful) or figuratively (happy, successful, right)H7999שָׁלַם shâlam — to be safe (in mind, body or estate)G2192 — to hold (used in very various applications, literally
or figuratively, direct or remote