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title: אׇמְנָם — verily · The Tanakh dictionary
description: אׇמְנָם (551), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 9 times: verily. BDB 1906: adv. verily, truly. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# אׇמְנָם

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«אׇמְנָם» 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:** 9 times · **Key:** 551 · **BDB:** אָמְנָם

### Glosses

truly (9)

### Meaning (OSHB)

verily [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/551/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adv. verily, truly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/551/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adv. (= אֻמְנָם) verily, truly, in asseverations 2 K 19:17 (= Is 37:18) Jb 19:4, 5; 34:12; 36:4 Ru 3:12, also ironical Jb 9:2; 12:2.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 9 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «אׇמְנָם» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/551/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 12:2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.12.2/)

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אָ֭מְנָם כִּ֣י אַתֶּם־עָ֑ם וְ֝עִמָּכֶ֗ם תָּמ֥וּת חָכְמָֽה׃

*Word for word:* truly (dm) you \[are.the\].people and with you it.will.die wisdom

*JPS 1917:* No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

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[Job 19:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.19.4/)

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וְאַף־אָמְנָ֥ם שָׁגִ֑יתִי אִ֝תִּ֗י תָּלִ֥ין מְשׁוּגָתִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and even truly I.have.erred with me it.lodges error my

*JPS 1917:* And be it indeed that I have erred, mine error remaineth with myself.

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