Amen

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a·men (ˌeɪˈmɛn,):
origin: via late Latin, via Greek, from Hebrew "āmēn" [certainly/truth/faithful/firm]


interjection
1. it is so; so be it.

noun
2. the end of a prayer.
3. to express strong approval of, or support for (an assertion, hope, etc).

adverb
4. verily; truly.

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[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

I'm trying to imagine an adverbial use of this, and failing. Example?

---L.

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/amen
http://concordances.org/hebrew/543.htm
http://www.gigadictionary.org/search.jsp?ln=eng&exprid=228718
http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/a.htm
http://www.realdictionary.com/?q=amen
http://thesaurus.com/browse/yea (synonym)

http://www.examples-help.org.uk/parts-of-speech/interjections.htm
"An interjection is a word used to express some sudden emotion of the mind
Examples: "Ah! there he comes" and "Alas! what shall I do?"
The word 'ah' expresses surprise, and the word 'alas' expresses distress.

Nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs become interjections when they are uttered as exclamations"


Mark 11:23 (http://www.stmaryspendleton.org/bulletins/Bulletin111113.pdf)
“Have faith in God. Amen I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Arise, and hurl thyself into the sea,’ and does not waver in his heart, but believes that whatever he says will be done, it shall be done for him.”

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amen
Hebrew Bible
Three distinct Biblical usages of amen may be noted:
- Initial amen, referring back to words of another speaker and introducing an affirmative sentence, e.g. 1 Kings 1:36.
- Detached amen, again referring to the words of another speaker but without a complementary affirmative sentence, e.g. Nehemiah 5:13.
- Final amen, with no change of speaker, as in the subsciption to the first three divisions of Psalms.

New Testament
- There are 52 amens in the Synoptic Gospels and 25 in John. The five final amens (Matthew 6:13, 28:20, Mark 16:20, Luke 24:53 and John 21:25), which are wanting in the best manuscripts, simulate the effect of final amen in the Hebrew Psalms. All initial amens occur in the sayings of Jesus. These initial amens are unparalleled in Hebrew literature, according to Friedrich Delitzsch, because they do not refer to the words of a previous speaker but instead introduce a new thought.
- The uses of amen ("verily" or "I tell you the truth", depending on the translation) in the Gospels form a peculiar class; they are initial, but often lack any backward reference.
- Jesus used the word to affirm his own utterances, not those of another person, and this usage was adopted by the church. The use of the initial amen, single or double in form, to introduce solemn statements of Jesus in the Gospels had no parallel in Jewish practice.
- In the King James Bible, the word amen is preserved in a number of contexts. Notable ones include:
- The catechism of curses of the Law found in Deuteronomy 27.
- A double amen ("amen and amen") occurs in Psalm 89 (Psalm 41:13; 72:19; 89:52), to confirm the words and invoke the fulfillment of them.
- The custom of closing prayers with amen originates in the Lord's Prayer at Matthew 6:13
- Amen occurs in several doxology formulas in Romans 1:25, 9:5, 11:36, 15:33, and several times in Chapter 16.[1] It also appears in doxologies in the Pss (41:14; 72:19; 89:53; 106:48). This liturgical form from Judaism.
- It concludes all of Paul's general epistles.
- In Revelation 3:14, Jesus is referred to as, "the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of God's creation."
Amen concludes the New Testament at Rev. 22:21.

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

So as a sort of "verily" -- gotcha.

---L.