ἀμήν
amen
‘amen’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Thayer's Greek Lexicon
From Thayer's Greek Lexicon
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Hebrew transliteration
- A Hebrew word carried over into Greek letters (e.g. ἀμήν, ἀλληλουϊά).
Every verse where G281 appears in the Book of Galatians — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Greek form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Greek New Testament; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences of this word are not indexed here.
Galatians
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Greek word αμην centers on the idea of “amen.” Where the King James Version says “verily,” newer translations reach for “truly” (Berean Standard Bible); the renderings breakdown has the detail. The Greek New Testament uses it across 100 verses — moderately common. Matthew dominates its distribution — 30 of 100 verses. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's G281 catalogs a Greek word from the Greek New Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Greek New Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 100
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 100 distinct verses.
- 17 / 27
- NT books
- The word appears in 17 of 27 New Testament books.
- #131
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Greek words (rank 131 of 5,347 Greek words by occurrence).
View all 100 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the New Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Some books belong to more than one corpus (Luke is in both the Gospels and the Lukan corpus, and so on), so these shares overlap and need not total 100%. Each figure is a share of the word’s 100 distinct verses.
- Gospels 74 verses · 74%
- Johannine 32 verses · 32%
- Pauline corpus 15 verses · 15%
- Revelation 7 verses · 7%
- Lukan (Luke–Acts) 6 verses · 6%
- General (Catholic) Epistles 3 verses · 3%
- Hebrews 1 verse · 1%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Verily 101×, Amen 51×
- American Standard Version: Verily 92×, Amen 31×, Truly 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Truly 100×, Amen 30×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Truly 100×, Amen 34×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders G281 across 152 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders G281 across 130 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders G281 across 130 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders G281 across 134 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in Thayer's
The 2 senses Thayer's distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- firm
- verily, amen
Word origin
Derived from אמן (ʼâmên) (H543) — truly.
Of hebrew origin [ H543 ]; properly firm that is (figuratively) trustworthy ; adverbially surely (often as interjection so be it ): - amen verily.
— Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (1890), public domain.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms G281 takes in the Greek New Testament, most frequent first — each parse links to that case’s occurrences in the concordance.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| ἀμὴν amḕn | Hebrew transliteration | Matthew 5:18 | 97 |
| ἀμήν amḗn | Hebrew transliteration | Luke 23:43 | 26 |
| Ἀμὴν Amḕn | Hebrew transliteration | Matthew 18:18 | 2 |
| Ἀμήν Amḗn | Hebrew transliteration | Revelation 22:20 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other Thayer's entries built from the same root as G281, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint usage
The same Greek word αμην appears 3 times in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), across 3 verses in 2 books.
- 3
- LXX occurrences
- Tagged occurrences of this Greek word in the Septuagint.
- 3
- verses
- Distinct Septuagint verses containing this word.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of the 39 Old Testament books.
Sample Septuagint occurrences
- 1 Chronicles 16:36 αμην
- Ezra 15:13 αμην
Septuagint occurrences (same lexeme)
Every verse where the same Strong’s number (G281) appears in the Greek Septuagint. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context; the Greek form is the matched word — the English is not keyword-highlighted.
- 1 Chronicles 16:36 αμην Blessed be Yahweh, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting. All the people said, Amen, and praised Yahweh.
- Ezra 15:13 αμην
- Ezra 18:6 αμην
These are occurrences of the same Greek lexeme (G281) in the Septuagint — not a translation of any one Hebrew word. The store carries no word-level Hebrew↔Greek alignment, so no Hebrew original is asserted here. Counts come from the recovered LXX Strong's tagging — high-frequency vocabulary is well covered, while rare or late forms may be untagged — so they reflect tagged occurrences and may slightly undercount.
