ἀμήν

See also: αμήν

Ancient Greek

Etymology

Borrowed from Biblical Hebrew אָמֵן (āmḗn, “so be it”, “surely”).

Pronunciation

(5^th BCE Attic) IPA^(key): /aː.mɛ̌ːn/
(1^st CE Egyptian) IPA^(key): /aˈme̝n/
(4^th CE Koine) IPA^(key): /aˈmin/
(10^th CE Byzantine) IPA^(key): /aˈmin/
(15^th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /aˈmin/

Adverb

ᾱ̓μήν • (āmḗn)

Descendants

→ Aghwan: 𐔰𐕌𐔶𐕎 (amēn)
→ Arabic: آمين
→ Coptic: ⲁⲙⲏⲛ (amēn) (Bohairic), ϩⲁⲙⲏⲛ (hamēn) (Sahidic, Fayyumic, Lycopolian)
→ Old Church Slavonic: аминъ (aminŭ), 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 (2006–2025)
G281 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

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