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ἄμη

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄμη

Structure: ἀμ (Stem) + η (Ending)

Sense

  1. a shovel or mattock

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • εὐλογημένοσ Κύριοσ ὁ Θεὸσ Ἰσραὴλ ἀπὸ τοῦ αἰῶνοσ καὶ ἕωσ τοῦ αἰῶνοσ. καὶ ἐρεῖ πᾶσ ὁ λαόσ. ἀμήν. καὶ ᾔνεσαν τῷ Κυρίῳ. (Septuagint, Liber I Paralipomenon 16:36)
  • καὶ ἐπεφώνησε πᾶν τὸ πλῆθοσ ἀμήν. καὶ ἄραντεσ ἄνω τὰσ χεῖρασ, προσπεσόντεσ ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν, προσεκύνησαν τῷ Κυρίῳ. (Septuagint, Liber Esdrae I 9:47)
  • καὶ τὴν ἀναβολήν μου ἐξετίναξα καὶ εἶπα. οὕτωσ ἐκτινάξαι ὁ Θεὸσ πάντα ἄνδρα, ὃσ οὐ στήσει τὸν λόγον τοῦτον, ἐκ τοῦ οἴκου αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκ κόπου αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἔσται οὕτωσ ἐκτετιναγμένοσ καὶ κενόσ. καὶ εἶπε πᾶσα ἡ ἐκκλησία. ἀμήν, καὶ ἤνεσαν τὸν Κύριον. καὶ ἐποίησεν ὁ λαὸσ τὸ ρῆμα τοῦτο. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 5:13)
  • καὶ ηὐλόγησεν Ἔσδρασ Κύριον τὸν Θεὸν τὸν μέγαν, καὶ ἀπεκρίθη πᾶσ ὁ λαὸσ καὶ εἶπαν. ἀμήν, ἐπάραντεσ τὰσ χεῖρασ αὐτῶν, καὶ ἔκυψαν καὶ προσεκύνησαν τῷ Κυρίῳ ἐπὶ πρόσωπον ἐπὶ τὴν γῆν. (Septuagint, Liber Nehemiae 8:6)
  • καὶ εἶπε μετ̓ αὐτοῦ. ἀμήν. (Septuagint, Liber Thobis 8:8)

Synonyms

  1. a shovel or mattock

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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