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amen

amen {am-ane'}
Greek: particle indeclinable

Possible Definitions:
1) firm, metaphorically faithful
2) verily, amen
2a) at the beginning of a discourse - surely, truly, of a truth
2b) at the end - so it is, so be it, may it be fulfilled. It was a custom, which passed over from the synagogues to the Christian assemblies, that when he who had read or discoursed, had offered up solemn prayer to God, the others responded Amen, and thus made the substance of what was uttered their own.

amen {am-ane'}

Greek: particle indeclinable

of Hebrew origin [543];

Translated as:

verily (101 times)

amen (51 times)

Total: 152 times

Strong's Number 281

TDNT - 1:335,53