Amen

Definition: Amen

Amen

Noun

1. A primeval personification of air and breath; worshipped especially at Thebes.

Date "Amen" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Specialty Definitions: Amen

Domain	Definitions
Bible	Amen This Hebrew word means firm, and hence also faithful (Rev. 3:14). In Isa. 65:16, the Authorized Version has "the God of truth," which in Hebrew is "the God of Amen." It is frequently used by our Saviour to give emphasis to his words, where it is translated "verily." Sometimes, only, however, in John's Gospel, it is repeated, "Verily, verily." It is used as an epithet of the Lord Jesus Christ (Rev. 3:14). It is found singly and sometimes doubly at the end of prayers (Ps. 41:13; 72:19; 89:52), to confirm the words and invoke the fulfilment of them. It is used in token of being bound by an oath (Num. 5:22; Deut. 27:15-26; Neh. 5:13; 8:6; 1 Chr. 16:36). In the primitive churches it was common for the general audience to say "Amen" at the close of the prayer (1 Cor. 14:16). The promises of God are Amen; i.e., they are all true and sure (2 Cor. 1:20). Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.
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Specialty Definition: Amen

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

This article is about the Hebrew word. In Egyptian mythology, Amen is an alternate spelling for Amun. There is a town named Amen in the Netherlands. There is a Metal band named Amen.

Amen, a Hebrew word, of which the root meaning is "stability," has been generally adopted in Christian worship as a concluding formula for prayers and hymns. Three distinct biblical usages may be noted.

Initial Amen, referring back to words of another speaker, e.g. 1 Kings i. 36; Rev. xxii. 20.
Detached Amen, the complementary sentence being suppressed, e.g. Neh. v. 13; Rev. v. 14 (cf. 1 Cor. xiv. 16).
Final Amen, with no change of speaker, as in the subscription to the first three divisions of the Psalter and in the frequent doxologies of the New Testament Epistles.

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 liturgical use of the word in apostolic times is attested by the passage from 1 Cor. cited above, and Justin Martyr (c. 150) describes the congregation as responding "amen," to the benediction after the celebration of the Eucharist. Its introduction into the baptismal formula (in the Greek Church it is pronounced after the name of each person of the Trinity) is probably later. Among certain Gnostic sects Amen became the name of an angel, and in post-biblical Jewish works exaggerated statements are multiplied as to the right method and the bliss of pronouncing it. It is still used in the service of the synagogue, and the Muslims not only add it after reciting the first Sura of the Koran, but also when writing letters, &c., and repeat it three times, often with the word qimtir, as a kind of talisman.

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Synonym: Amen

Synonym: Amon (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Amen

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Assent	Verb: assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with; Adjective: go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views, agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to, conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to.
	Be it so; so be it, so let it be; amen; willingly.
Content	Interjection: amen; (assent); very well, all the better, so much the better, well and good; it will do, that will do; it cannot be helped.
Submission	Phrase: have it your own way; it can't be helped; amen; (assent); da locum melioribus; tempori parendum.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Amen

English words defined with "Amen": amen corner, Amen-Ra, Amon-Ra ♦ Butt end ♦ Letter lock ♦ Om mani padme hun ♦ So mote it be ♦ To say amen to. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Amen": AMEN CURLER ♦ Cursing by Bell, Book, and Candle ♦ Dying Sayings. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Amen" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Afrikaan (amen), Czech (amen), Dutch (amen), Esperanto (amen), French (amen), German (amen), Italian (amen), Latin (amen, faithful, faithfulness, so be it, true, truly, truth, verily), Serbo-Croatian (amen), Swedish (amen).

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Modern Usage: Amen

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	The second mouse fought until he churned the cream into butter and walked out Amen. (Catch Me If You Can; writing credit: Frank Abagnale Jr.; Stan Redding) Amen. (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr) Amen. (Hoosiers; writing credit: Angelo Pizzo) Fast, early acceptance into an Ivy League school and please let it be Harvard! Amen. (Heathers; writing credit: Daniel Waters) Amen! I mean my biggest fear is that I'm gonna marry the woman that I want to hang out with and talk to in my golden years and then die in a fiery car crash when I'm forty and I miss all those years of having sex. (The Tao of Steve; writing credit: Duncan North; Greer Goodman)
Lyrics	It's a love without end, amen (Love Without End Amen; performing artist: George Strait) Amen it's like a scene out of playa's magazine (Fatty Girl; performing artist: Ludacris) I'm thankful for the chance I got to say amen (Po' Folks; performing artist: Nappy Roots)
Clever	Father, bless this person in whatever it is that You know he or she may be needing this day! Amen! (references; author: unknown)
Movie/TV Titles	Amen (1974) Let the Church Say Amen! (1973) Yev ayspes amen or (1972) El Día que me amen (2003) Amen (1986)
Song Titles	Love Without End Amen (performing artist: George Strait) Forever & Ever Amen (performing artist: Randy Travis)
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Commercial Usage: Amen

Domain	Title
Books	Ben Folds Five: Whatever & Ever Amen (reference) Black Talk : Words and Phrases from the Hood to the Amen Corner (reference) God Said Amen (reference) Love Without End, Amen (reference) Shouting at Amen Corner (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	Say Amen, Somebody (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music	Amen (reference) Whatever & Ever Amen (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Image Slideshow: Amen

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Familiar Quotations: Amen

Author	Quotation
Martin Luther	Here I stand; I can do no other. God help me. Amen!
Oliver Wendell Holmes	The Amen of nature is always a flower.
Sir Thomas More	The things, good Lord, that I pray for, give me thy grace to labour for. Amen.
St Chrysostom	"Glory to God for all things. Amen."
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Use in Literature: Amen

Title	Author	Quote
King Richard III	Shakespeare, William	Great God of heaven, say Amen to all!
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Usage Frequency: Amen

"Amen" is generally used as an interjection -- approximately 99.08% of the time. "Amen" is used about 325 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Interjection	99.08%	322	16,053
Unclassified Items	0.92%	3	202,518
Total	100.00%	325	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Amen

The following table summarizes the usage of "Amen" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.

Name	Usage/Gender	Usage per 100 million Persons	Rank in USA
Amen	Last name	1,000	15,284
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Amen

Expressions using "Amen": amen corner ♦ amen to ♦ To say amen to. Additional references.
Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "Amen": Amen-Ra.
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Amen

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
amen	269	amen band	10
amen clinic	55	amen lyrics	8
amen motorcycle	49	amen frame	8
amen amen	39	amen frame savior	7
amen ever forever	35	amen wardy home	7
amen wardy	29	amen film ra	7
amen ever forever lyrics randy travis	28	amen daniel dr	7
amen corner	23	amen movie	6
daniel amen	23	amen show tv	5
amen amen.net	21	amen ever forever randy travis	5
amen dr	20	say amen somebody	5
amen ever forever lyrics	19	amen meaning	5
amen ra	19	amen lyrics omen	5
amen chopper	17	amen chat	4
amen amen.com	16	amen music	4
amen end love without	16	amen production ra	4
amen irving	15	amen clinic.com	4
amen nefer ra un	15	amen princess ra	4
amen cycle	12	amen casey chaos	4
amen dia el que	11	amen frame motorcycle	4
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Modern Translations: Amen

Language		Translations for "Amen"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		amen. (various references)

Albanian		amin. (various references)

Arabic		‏حقا (actually, indeed, justly, properly, really, rightly, truly), ‏آمين. (various references)

Bulgarian		така да бъде, амин. (various references)

Chinese		阿們 . (various references)

Czech		amen, konec (bottom, close, death, end, ending, finish, tail, terminal, termination, the end of, time is up, upshot). (various references)

Dutch		amen, zo zý het, het zý zo. (various references)

Esperanto		amen, tiel estu. (various references)

Farsi		چنین باد, خداکند, امین (Honest, Trustee, Trustworthy, Trusty), انشاء الله (May). (various references)

French		amen, ainsi soit-il. (various references)

German		amen. (various references)

Greek		αμήν. (various references)

Hungarian		ámen. (various references)

Indonesian		amin. (various references)

Italian		amen. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		南無 (hail), アート紙 (airhead, almond, arbiter, arbitration, arm, arm warmer, armchair, armlet, armor, army, army blue, army look, art paper, coated paper, dumb woman, Early American, evening, urban, urban design, urban life, urban renewal, urban sprawl, urbanity). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		なむ (hail), アーメン . (various references)

Manx		myr shoh lhig eh, myr shen dy row eh (so be it, so may it be). (various references)

Papiamen		amèn. (various references)

Pig Latin		amenay

Portuguese		amém, que assim seja. (various references)

Romanian		amin (all over). (various references)

Russian		аминь. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		amen, egipatsko božanstvo - amen. (various references)

Spanish		amén. (various references)

Swedish		amen. (various references)

Turkish		amin (amine), amín, haklısınız (you have a point there), öyle olsun. (various references)

Ukranian		хай буде так, висновок (conclusion, consequence, corollary, deduction, educt, eduction, illation, inference, peroration), заключні слова, амінь (verily). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Amen

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	amen. (various references)
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Bible Trace: Amen

Language	Date	Source	Romans Chapter 15, Verse 33
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	O de qeoV thV eirhnhV meta pantwn umwn amhn
Latin	405	Vulgate	Deus autem pacis sit cum omnibus vobis amen
Old English	990	West Saxon	Friðes God sie mid eowra gehwa. Amen.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	The God of peace be with you. Amen.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	Now the God of peace be with you all. Amen.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	Now may the God of peace be with you all. So be it.
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Matched Bible Translations: Amen

Language	Romans Chapter 15, Verse 33
Cebuano	Hinaut ang Dios sa kalinaw magauban kaninyong tanan. Amen.
Croatian	Bog mira sa svima vama! Amen.
Danish	Men Fredens Gud være med eder alle! Amen.
Dutch	En de God des vredes zij met u allen. Amen.
Finnish	Rauhan Jumala olkoon kaikkien teidän kanssanne. Amen.
French	Que le Dieu de paix soit avec vous tous! Amen!
German	Der Gott aber des Friedens sei mit euch allen! Amen.
Haitian Creole	Se pou Bondye ki bay kè poze a avèk nou tout. Amèn.
Hungarian	A békességnek Istene pedig legyen mindnyájan ti veletek! Ámen.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Mudah-mudahan Allah, yang memberikan sejahtera kepada manusia, menyertai Saudara semuanya. Amin.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Mudah-mudahan Allah, yang pohon sejahtera itu, adalah kiranya beserta dengan kamu sekalian. Amin.
Latvian	Un miera Dievs lai ir ar jums visiem! Amen.
Maori	Na, kia noho te Atua o te rangimarie ki a koutou katoa. Amine.
Norwegian	Fredens Gud være med eder alle! Amen.
Rumanian	Dumnezeul pqcii sq fie cu voi cu toyi! Amin.
Shuar	Yus ti shiir pujustinian Súana nu atumjai tsanin pujurtamsati. Núnisan Atí.
Spanish	Y el Dios de paz sea con todos vosotros. Amén.
Swahili	Mungu aliye chanzo cha amani na awe nanyi nyote! Amina!
Swedish	Fridens Gud vare med eder alla. Amen.
Uma	Kusarumaka Alata'ala to mpowai' -ta kalompea' tuwu' mpodohei-koi omea. Amin!
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Derivations & Misspellings: Amen

Derivations
	Words beginning with "Amen": amenabilities, amenability, amenable, amenably, amend, amendable, amendatory, amended, amender, amenders, amending, amendment, amendments, amends, amenities, amenity, amenorrhea, amenorrheas, amenorrheic, amens, ament, amentia, amentias, amentiferous, aments. (additional references)
	Words ending with "Amen": cameramen, cyclamen, duramen, examen, flamen, foramen, gravamen, militiamen, putamen, ramen, sagamen, seamen, stamen, velamen, yamen. (additional references)
	Words containing "Amen": aggiornamento, aggiornamentos, arbitrament, arbitraments, armament, armamentaria, armamentarium, armamentariums, armaments, catamenia, catamenial, cyclamens, disarmament, disarmaments, duramens, examens, filament, filamentary, filamentous, filaments, firmament, firmamental, firmaments, flamenco, flamencos, flamens, foramens, fundament, fundamental, fundamentalism, fundamentalisms, fundamentalist, fundamentalistic, fundamentalists, fundamentally, fundamentals, fundaments, gameness, gamenesses, gravamens, hereditament, hereditaments, intertestamental, lameness, lamenesses, lament, lamentable, lamentableness, lamentablenesses, lamentably, lamentation. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Amen" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: abeen, aben, acen, Acmin, aem, aeme, aen, aene, afen, ahean, ahen, ahme, ahmen, Ajeen, ajen, Ajman, akeen, Aken, Akena, Akmene, alen, alman, almeh, almen, amain, amaj, aman, amani, amans, Amant, ame, amee, Ameen, amek, Amel, amena, ameng, Ameno, amens, Ament, amer, amhe, Amien, amin, amint, amment, amn, amne, amnea, amneo, amner, Amney, amoe, amoni, amu, amun, amux, Anden, anen, aneno, aneo, angen, Anlen, anne, Ansen, Anwen, aome, apen, apme, aren, armen, asen, aten, auen, aume, Aveen, aven, awen, Axeen, Axen, ayen, ayman, Ayme, Aymon, azen, Dahmen, emena, emenc, emin, emmen, enen, famen, hmen, imen, Imin, inem, jammen, jamun, maen, mafen, maxen, namen, namenz, oamen, pamen, samen, smen, wamen. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Amen"

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "Amen" (pronounced āme"n or Äme"n)
3	-m e" n	handymen, lawmen, men, oilmen, patrolmen, pitchmen.
3	-m e" n	handymen, lawmen, men, oilmen, patrolmen, pitchmen.
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Anagrams: Amen

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: mane, mean, name, nema.
	Words within the letters "a-e-m-n"
	-1 letter: ane, mae, man, men, nae, nam.
	-2 letters: ae, am, an, em, en, ma, me, na, ne.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-m-n"
	+1 letter: admen, amend, amens, ament, amine, anime, axmen, enema, leman, maned, manes, mange, manse, maven, means, meant, meany, menad, mensa, menta, minae, named, namer, names, nemas, ramen, reman, yamen.
	+2 letters: acumen, aidmen, airmen, almner, ameban, amends, aments, amines, ammine, anadem, anemia, anemic, animes, anomie, anthem, ashmen, axeman, axemen, badmen, bagmen, barmen, batmen, baymen, bedamn, bemean, bemoan, bename, byname, cabmen, carmen, cinema, daemon, daimen, damned, damner, dampen, demand, demean, desman, embank, enamel, enamor, encamp, enemas, engram, enigma, etamin, examen, famine, flamen, foeman, gagmen, gamine, gasmen, german, haemin, hetman, humane, iceman, immane, inmate, inseam, kinema, lament, lawmen, laymen, legman, lemans, madden, madmen, maenad, magnet, maiden, maline, manage, manche, manege, mangel, manger, manges, mangey, mangle, manned, manner, manque, manses, mantel, mantes, mantle, manure, marine, marten, mavens, meaner, meanie, meanly, median, medina, menace, menads, menage, menial, mensae, mensal, mensas, mental, merman, mesian, messan, moaned, moaner, namely, namers, omenta, penman, pneuma, preman, ragmen, ramens, remain, remand, remans, rename, seaman, seamen, semina, stamen, tamein, tandem, taxmen, unmade, unmake, unseam, untame, vanmen, yamens, yeoman.
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