Hebrew adv · H543
אָמֵן
amenaw-mane'
amen
30 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼâmên
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H543is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H543
sure; abstract, faithfulness; adverb, truly
The King James renders it: Amen, so be it, truth.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
amen is rendered "amen". It stands 30 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Twelve of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 5:22May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’
Numbers 5:22אָמֵ֥ן׀
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twelve of the word's thirty uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- amen25
- and amen3
- surely2
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
The words it stands beside
All 30, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- אָמֵֽן׃ ס11
- אָ֘מֵ֥ן׀3
- וְאָמֵֽן׃3
- אָמֵ֗ן2
- אָמֵ֑ן2
- אָמֵ֔ן2
- אָמֵ֥ן׀2
- אָמֵן֙1
- אָמֵ֕ן1
- אָמֵ֤ן׀1
- אָמֵֽן׃1
- אָמֵֽן׃ פ1
The grammar of each form
- interjection27HTj
- conjunction (“and”) + interjection3HC/Tj
Numbers
two uses
May this water that brings a curse enter your stomach and cause your belly to swell and your thigh to shrivel.’ Then the woman is to say, ‘Amen, Amen.’
- אָמֵ֥ן׀ʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
- אָמֵֽן׃ʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
Deuteronomy
twelve uses
‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- אָמֵֽן׃ סʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
‘Cursed is he who dishonors his father or mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- אָמֵֽן׃ סʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
‘Cursed is he who moves his neighbor’s boundary stone.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- אָמֵֽן׃ סʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
‘Cursed is he who lets a blind man wander in the road.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- אָמֵֽן׃ סʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
‘Cursed is he who withholds justice from the foreigner, the fatherless, or the widow.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- אָמֵֽן׃ סʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his father’s wife, for he has violated his father’s marriage bed.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- אָמֵֽן׃ סʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
‘Cursed is he who lies with any animal.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- אָמֵֽן׃ סʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his sister, the daughter of his father or the daughter of his mother.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- אָמֵֽן׃ סʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
‘Cursed is he who sleeps with his mother-in-law.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- אָמֵֽן׃ סʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
‘Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- אָמֵֽן׃ סʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
‘Cursed is he who accepts a bribe to kill an innocent person.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- אָמֵֽן׃ סʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
‘Cursed is he who does not put the words of this law into practice.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
- אָמֵֽן׃ פʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
1 Kings
one use
“Amen,” replied Benaiah son of Jehoiada. “May the LORD, the God of my lord the king, so declare it.
- אָמֵ֑ןʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
1 Chronicles
one use
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.” Then all the people said, “Amen!” and “Praise the LORD!”
- אָמֵ֔ןʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
Nehemiah
three uses
I also shook out the folds of my robe and said, “May God likewise shake out of His house and possession every man who does not keep this promise. May such a man be shaken out and have nothing!” The whole assembly said, “Amen,” and they praised the LORD. And the people did as they had promised.
- אָמֵ֗ןʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
Then Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and with their hands uplifted, all the people said, “Amen, Amen!” Then they bowed down and worshiped the LORD with their faces to the ground.
- אָמֵ֤ן׀ʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
- אָמֵן֙ʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
Psalms
seven uses
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Amen and Amen.
- אָ֘מֵ֥ן׀ʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
- וְאָמֵֽן׃veamenconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and amen
And blessed be His glorious name forever; may all the earth be filled with His glory. Amen and amen.
- אָ֘מֵ֥ן׀ʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
- וְאָמֵֽן׃veamenconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and amen
Blessed be the LORD forever! Amen and amen.
- אָ֘מֵ֥ן׀ʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
- וְאָמֵֽן׃veamenconjunction (“and”) + interjectiontagged: and amen
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Let all the people say, “Amen!” Hallelujah!
- אָמֵ֗ןʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
Isaiah
two uses
Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth, and whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from My sight.
- אָמֵ֔ןʾameninterjectiontagged: surely
- אָמֵ֑ןʾameninterjectiontagged: surely
Jeremiah
two uses
This was in order to establish the oath I swore to your forefathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is to this day.” “Amen, LORD,” I answered.
- אָמֵ֥ן׀ʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
“Amen!” Jeremiah said. “May the LORD do so! May the LORD fulfill the words you have prophesied, and may He restore the articles of His house and all the exiles back to this place from Babylon.
- אָמֵ֕ןʾameninterjectiontagged: amen
The letters
Gematria 91· 741 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.