אׇמְנָה
ʼomnâh · H546 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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truly, in truth, really
Marker expressing a speaker's confirmation of the truth of a statement; in some cases the truth of this statement is conceded
ExamplesJoshua 7:20 So Achan answered Joshua and said, “Truly, I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel, and this is what I did:
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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 1 word
- אַף ʼaph · H637 · nostrils, nose
- One term ("indeed") is a low-frequency affirmative adverb; the other is a high-frequency, multi-functional particle ("also, even, yea," plus many contrastive and scalar senses). Both can serve as affirmative or emphatic particles, so they overlap in that narrow affirming role, though the second term's range extends far beyond it into contrastive, scalar, and spatial senses.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀληθῶς alēthōs · G230 · real, really, true
- Greek adverb ἀληθῶς ('truly') serves as the standard Septuagintal rendering of Hebrew אׇמְנָה ('indeed'), both functioning as affirmative adverbs confirming the truth or certainty of a statement.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Care002003002004
- This entry carries no caregiving sense of its own; both tagged citations (Genesis 20:12; Joshua 7:20) are the affirming particle "truly," not a sense of nurture.
- Affirmers004001
- The word serves as an emphatic particle affirming what is said, "indeed" or "truly," as Abraham affirming Sarah truly is his sister (Genesis 20:12) and Achan affirming, "Truly, I have sinned" (Joshua 7:20).
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H546. omnah אָמְנָה adverb (from אֹמֶן by affix ָ ה) verily, truly, indeed Gen 20:12 (E)…
Sources
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