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title: אׇמְנָה — verily · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אׇמְנָה (546), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: verily. BDB 1906: adv. verily, truly, indeed. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אׇמְנָה

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«אׇמְנָה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **verily** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 546 · **BDB:** אָמְנָה²

### Glosses

truly (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

verily [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/546/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adv. verily, truly, indeed [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/546/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adv. (from אֹמֶן by affix ָה) verily, truly, indeed Gn 20:12 (E) Jos 7:20 (JE).

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אׇמְנָה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/546/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 20:12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.20.12/)

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וְגַם־אָמְנָ֗ה אֲחֹתִ֤י בַת־אָבִי֙ הִ֔וא אַ֖ךְ לֹ֣א בַת־אִמִּ֑י וַתְּהִי־לִ֖י לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and also truly sister \[is\].my the.daughter my.father my she only not the.daughter my.mother my and she.became for me (into).a wife

*JPS 1917:* And moreover she is indeed my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and so she became my wife.

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[Joshua 7:20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.7.20/)

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וַיַּ֧עַן עָכָ֛ן אֶת־יְהוֹשֻׁ֖עַ וַיֹּאמַ֑ר אָמְנָ֗ה אָנֹכִ֤י חָטָ֙אתִי֙ לַֽיהוָה֙ אֱלֹהֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וְכָזֹ֥את וְכָזֹ֖את עָשִֽׂיתִי׃

*Word for word:* and he.answered Achan (et) Joshua and he.said truly I I.have.sinned to Yahweh the.God of.Israel and like this and like this I.have.done

*JPS 1917:* And Achan answered Joshua, and said: 'Of a truth I have sinned against the LORD, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done.

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