noun
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An instance of saying ‘amen’.
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A title of Christ; the Faithful One (especially with reference to Revelation 3:14)
verb
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To say amen.
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To say amen to; to ratify solemnly.
adverb
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At the end of religious prayers: so be it.
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In many Abrahamic religious texts and creeds: truly, verily.
interjection
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An expression of strong agreement. Often, though dated, in the phrase "Amen to that".
Examples of amen in a Sentence
And let all the people say Amen, Hallelujah."
The prophets use the formula, " Thus saith the Lord," but he goes beyond them and speaks in his own name, " Amen, I say unto you."
For thine is the power and the glory, for ever and ever, Amen.'
Bianca coughed to cover her laugh, and Pierre seconded the vamp with a quiet amen.
Among certain Gnostic sects Amen became the name of an angel, and in post-biblical Jewish works exaggerated statements are multiplied as to the right method and the bliss of pronouncing it.
But when he concludes the prayer and thanksgiving all the people present answer with acclamation ` Amen.'
A few of the gents nodded off but the pastor would quickly bring them back we a raised voice and a fist pound, prompting a hearty Amen.
The Lord alone can add amen to every word he utters.
In Amen Court, where the residences of canons of St Paul's and the later houses of the minor canons are situated, there stretches such a piece of wall, dividing the gardens of the Court from the Old Bailey.
In its earliest form it ran simply - "Glor y be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, world without end, Amen," or "Glory be to the Father, in (or through) the Son, and in (or through) the Holy Ghost."
But the word ' Amen ' in Hebrew signifies ' so be it.'
The lachrymal forj amen is always within the orbital margin; and in many species the infra-orbital foramen is very large (in some as large as the orbit) and transmits part of the masseter muscle.
Strips of paper bearing a manifold repetition of the words "The Jewel in the Lotus, Amen," are wrapped round cylinders of all sizes - from hand-mills to windor water-mills.
In the East, " so-and-s6, the servant of God, is baptized," &c. The Greeks add Amen after each person, and conclude with the words, " Now and ever and to aeons of aeons, amen."
God bless him and shame fall on those who do not say amen " .
Monty's Amen Describe it in 20 words Lively R&B tunes with a few slower soulful ballads to help balance things out.
This section of the Mass concludes with another brilliant fugue for the chorus, to the words 'Et vitam venturi saeculi, Amen ' .
Some of what he has to say is all but incomprehensible, but still garners a hearty ' Amen ' from the congregation.
The opening music returns at the Quoniam tu solus Sanctus with an Amen coda bringing the movement to an architecturally satisfying close.
The track starts as an eerie roller but at the drop changes into a dark, amen drum, floor smasher.
Amen Am I to suppose that God's Holy Spirit has revealed the truth to you?
Truth is the same as amen, amen means truthful, fixed and unchanging.
From the evidence of the stele of the second (the Coronation Stele) and that of the fifth it has been inferred that the sovereignty early in this period became elective, a deputation of the various orders in the realm being (as Diodorus states), when a vacancy occurred, sent to Napata, where the chief god Amen selected out of the members of the royal family the person who was to succeed, and who became officially the god's son; and it seems certain that the priestly caste was more influential in Ethiopia than in Egypt both before and after this period.
The uses of amen ("verily") in the Gospels form a peculiar class; they are initial, but often lack any backward reference.
The opening music returns at the Quoniam tu solus sanctus with an Amen coda bringing the movement to an architecturally satisfying close.
In Christ God says ' Amen ' to his own verdict upon sinful humanity.
Amen Am I to suppose that God 's Holy Spirit has revealed the truth to you?
If you like Amen as a name, why bother with Nema?
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Christian Hawaiian shirts say "Aloha" and "Amen" simultaneously.
Some two hundred years later the priests of Amen (Ammon), flying from Thebes, founded a quasi-Egyptian capital at Napata.