אׇמְנָם
ʼomnâm · H551 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Meanings
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it is true, truly, indeed
Marker expressing a speaker's confirmation of the truth of a statement; in some cases the truth of this statement is conceded
ExamplesRuth 3:12 “But now, although it is true that I am a redeemer, yet there is also a redeemer more closely related than I.
2 Kings 19:17 “It is true, LORD; the kings of Assyria have laid waste the nations and their lands,
Job 9:2 “In truth I know that this is so; But how can a person be in the right with God?
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 2 words
- אַךְ ʼak · H389 · only, just, mere
- Both words are Hebrew emphatic or affirmative particles with clearly overlapping senses ("surely," "indeed," "truly" appear in both), and could substitute for each other in affirming or emphasizing contexts.
- רַק raq · H7535 · thin, fine, gaunt
- Both words are Hebrew particles that can function as affirmers, sharing "surely" among their renderings. רַק (raq, H7535) has a much broader, primarily restrictive or contrastive usage ("only," "but," "except"), while אׇמְנָם (ʼomnâm, H551) is more consistently affirmative, so they overlap only in the affirming function.
In the other Testament 1 word
- ἀλήθεια alḗtheia · G225 · truth, actually, really
- Greek ἀλήθεια (truth) serves as the substantive noun counterpart to Hebrew אׇמְנָם's adverbial affirmation of truthfulness or certainty; the Hebrew conveys emphatic assertion ('indeed, surely, truly') while the Greek denotes the abstract quality or state of being true.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Affirmers004001
- אָמְנָם functions as an affirming adverb, "indeed" or "truly," underscoring the certainty of a statement.
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H551. omnam אָמְנָם adverb (= אֻמְנָם) verily, truly, in asseverations 2Ki 19:17 (= Isa…
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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