• Finnish: aamen
• French: amen
• German: Amen
• Polish: amen
• Russian: аминь

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: (āmen)

• Finnish: totisesti
• French: amen
• German: Amen
• Polish: amen
• Russian: аминь

• ttbc Arabic: (’āmin)
• ttbc Aramaic:

  Syriac: ܐܡܝܢ (āmeyn)

  Hebrew: אמין (āmeyn)

• ttbc Bosnian: amin
• ttbc Czech: amen
• ttbc Dutch: amen
• ttbc Greek: αμήν (amín); synonyms: γένοιτο (yénito), είθε (íthe), άμποτε (á[m]bote), μακάρι (makári)
• ttbc Hebrew: אמן (’amîn)
• ttbc Icelandic: amen
• ttbc Italian: amen
• ttbc Japanese: アーメン (āmen)
• ttbc Korean: 아멘 (amen)
• ttbc Kurdish: amîn
• ttbc Persian: (âmin)
• ttbc Portuguese: amém
• ttbc Romanian: amin
• ttbc Serbian:

  Cyrillic: амин

  Roman: amin

• ttbc Spanish: amén
• ttbc Swedish: amen
• ttbc Turkish: amin

Quotations

• 1999 May, Matt Groening, “Hell Is Other Robots”, Futurama, season 1, episode 9

  Fry: Bender's stupid religion is driving me nuts!

  Leela: Amen!

Interjection

1. An expression of strong agreement.

Noun

1. An instance of saying ‘amen’.
2. A title of Christ; the Faithful One (especially with reference to Revelation 3:14)

   • 1611, And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God — Revelation 3:14, KJV

Translations

• French: amen

Persian: آمین

Anagrams

• mane
• mean
• name
• NEMA

Icelandic

Adverb

amen

1. At the end of prayers: so be it.

   • Í guðanna bænum, amen.

2. At the end of a creeds or in Biblical translations: truly, verily.

Interjection

amen

1. Expressing strong agreement.

Spanish

Verb

amen

1. third-person plural subjunctive present of amar
2. third-person plural imperative of amar

The word Amen ( ; , ’Āmīn ; "So be it; truly" Its use in Judaism dates back to its earliest texts. It has been generally adopted in Christian worship as a concluding formula for prayers and hymns., as in, for instance, amen to that.

Etymology

Amen, meaning so be it, is of Hebrew origin. The word was imported into the Greek of the early Church from the Jewish synagogue. From Greek, amen entered the other Western languages. According to a standard dictionary etymology, amen passed from Greek into Late Latin, and thence into English.

The Hebrew word ’amen derives from the Hebrew verb ’aman, a primitive root. Grammarians frequently list ’aman under its three consonants (’mn), which are identical to those of ’amen .

Popular among some theosophists and adherents of esoteric Christianity is the conjecture that amen is a derivative of the name of the Egyptian god named Amun (which is sometimes also spelled Amen). There is no academic support for this view.

Biblical usages

Three distinct Biblical usages of amen may be noted.

Liturgically, amen is a communal response to be recited at certain points during the prayer service. It is recited communally to affirm a blessing made by the prayer reader. It is also mandated as a response during the kaddish doxology. The congregation is sometimes prompted to answer 'amen' by the terms ve-'imru (Hebrew: ואמרו) = "and [now] say (pl.)," or, ve-nomar (ונאמר) = "and let us say."

Contemporary usage reflects ancient practice: As early as the 4th century BCE, Jews assembled in the Temple responded 'amen' at the close of a doxology or other prayer uttered by a priest. This Jewish liturgical use of amen was adopted by the Christians.

But Jewish law also requires individuals to answer amen whenever they hear a blessing recited, even in a non-liturgical setting. Amen is also used whenever an individual wishes to fulfill his own obligation through another person’s recitation of a prayer or blessing.

The Talmud teaches homiletically that the word Amen can be read as an acronym for אל מלך נאמן (’El melekh ne’eman), meaning "God, trustworthy King." The word amen itself is etymologically related to the Hebrew word emuna ("faith") implying that one is affirming with, and of, "the faith" of Judaism (and its belief in Monotheism).

Jews usually pronounce the word as it is pronounced in Hebrew: "aw-MÉN" (Ashkenazi) or "ah-MÉN" (Sephardi). These are transcribed in IPA as [ɔ'mɛɪn] and [a'mɛn] respectively.

Amen in Christianity

The uses of amen ("verily") in the Gospels form a peculiar class; they are initial, but often lack any backward reference. Jesus used the word to affirm his own utterances, not those of another person, and this usage was adopted by the church. The use of the initial amen, single or double in form, to introduce solemn statements of Jesus in the Gospels had no parallel in Jewish practice. The liturgical use of the word in apostolic times is attested by the passage from 1 Corinthians cited above, and Justin Martyr (c. 150) describes the congregation as responding "amen," to the benediction after the celebration of the Eucharist.. However not all Muslims share in this verbal tradition. The word "Amen" is not found anywhere in the Quran. Amin (al-Amin) is a nickname for Mohammed. The Islamic use of the word is the same as the Jewish use of the word.

Common Uses

Amen Sister! Amen to that. In prayer, to conclude a prayer Amen - I agree strongly to the suggested comment.

Notes

External links

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Amen
• Jewish Encyclopedia: Amen
• Encyclopedia Britannica: Amen
• The Laws of Responding Amen in Judaism chabad.org
• Strong's Concordance H543
• Strong's Concordance G281
• Tutankhamen - Amenism, Atenism and Egyptian Monotheism
• Britannica Student Encyclopedia

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