אָמָן
ʼâmân · H542 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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skilled worker, artisan
Person with skills for a specific craft
ExamplesSong of Solomon 7:1 “How beautiful are your feet in sandals, Prince’s daughter! The curves of your hips are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist.
How it’s used In 1 role
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָדhand, power 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- חָרָשׁ chârâsh · H2796 · craftsman, craftsman > expert
- General Hebrew term for a skilled craftsman or artisan; frequently used for workers in metal, wood, or stone
- חָכָם châkâm · H2450 · wise, intelligent, able
- Hebrew adjective for one who is wise or skillful, often applied to skilled craftsmen and artisans in contexts of specialized craftsmanship
In the other Testament 2 words
- τεχνίτης technítēs · G5079 · craftsman
- Greek translation-equivalent for a skilled workman or artisan; the standard LXX rendering for Hebrew terms denoting skilled craftsmanship
- δημιουργός dēmiourgós · G1217 · builder
- Greek term for a skilled craftsman or maker; used in LXX contexts for skilled artisans and workmen
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Professions001001003009
- אָמָן names the skilled craftsman, as the Shulammite's beauty likened to the work of a master craftsman's hands.
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H542. omman אָמָּן (omm¹n) noun masculine master-workman, artist Cant 7:2 (Mishna, Talmud…
אָמָּן (omm¹n) noun masculine master-workman, artist Cant 7:2 (Mishna, Talmud אוּמָנוּת אוּמָן, handiwork, Syriac ᵑ6 Exo 28:11, where = Hebrew חָרָשׁ & is likewise used of gems; Nabataean אמנא Vog94, Assyrian mar umm'ni, LyonSargontexte 65, compare ZimBP 12; compare II. אָמוֺן).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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