אָמִי
Ami
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Ami’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H532 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew 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 Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 1 verse
About this entry
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אמי — transliterated ʼÂmîy — is a Hebrew name carrying the sense “Ami.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Ezra (100% of all occurrences). Found nowhere else but Ezra 2:57. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H532 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Ami 1×
- American Standard Version: Ami 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ami 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ami 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H532 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H532 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H532 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H532 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB 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.
- Ami = "bond-servant"
- a descendant of Amon, Solomon's servant
Word origin
n.pr.m. Ezr 2:57 = iii. אָמוֹן Ne 7:59.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from אמון (ʼÂmôwn) (H526) — Amon.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אֲמָא II
- , fut. יֵימָא, imper. אֵימָא (√אם to join, v. אמר) to say, speak, think. Targ. Y. Gen. XXXIII, 10.—Freq. in Talmud.—אפילו תימא even if you will say, i.e. it may come right even if you assume that &c. Succ. 13ᵇ; a. fr.—מי לֵימָא, (מי)נֵימָא, or לימא must it be said, does it mean to say? Ib.; a. fr.—(ואי) וכי תימא and if you should object. Ib.; a. fr.—אלא אימא but rather say, i.e. the correct version is. Ib.; a. fr.—אימא סיפא now read the second clause, i.e. how will you understand &c.? Ber. 21ᵇ; a. fr.—אֵימָא I might think. Ib.; a. fr.—הוה אמינא I might have thought, I might have been led to believe. Erub. 74ᵇ מאי הוה א׳ what might I have been led to believe?; a. fr.—נימא כוותיה let him express his opinion in agreement with his authority, i.e. why does he not say so expressly? Taan. 3ᵃ; a. fr.—Pes. 7ᵇ היכי נימא what else should he say? נימא למול should he use the expression lamol?—Gitt. 47ᵇ, a. fr. ס"ד אמינא it may occur to you to think; v. דַּעְתָּא. Yoma 85ᵇ אי הואי התם הוה אמינא had I been there, I should have said.—קאמינא = קא אמינא I say, speak of, v. קָא. Gitt. 47ᵇ; a. fr.
אֲמִי
- , v. אֲמָא
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H532, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Ami). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(builder), one of Solomon's servants, (Ezra 2:57) called Amon, Or Amen, Amon in (Nehemiah 7:59)
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
mother; fear; people
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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