ἀμήν
See also: αμήν
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אָמֵן (āmḗn, “so be it”, “surely”).
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /aː.mɛ̌ːn/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /aˈme̝n/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /aˈmin/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /aˈmin/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /aˈmin/
Descendants
- → Aghwan: 𐔰𐕌𐔶𐕎 (amēn)
- → Arabic: آمين
- → Coptic: ⲁⲙⲏⲛ (amēn) (Bohairic), ϩⲁⲙⲏⲛ (hamēn) (Sahidic, Fayyumic, Lycopolian)
- → Old Church Slavonic: аминь (aminĭ), амин (amin)
- → Gothic: 𐌰𐌼𐌴𐌽 (amēn)
- → Greek: αμήν (amín)
- → Latin: āmēn
- → Old Armenian: ամէն (amēn)
- → Old Georgian: ამენ (amen)
- Georgian: ამინ (amin)
References
- “ἀμήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ἀμήν”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ἀμήν in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- ἀμήν in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- G281 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
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