{"id":3456,"date":"2010-11-10T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-11-10T15:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=3456"},"modified":"2012-11-28T00:18:59","modified_gmt":"2012-11-28T08:18:59","slug":"where-the-word-amen-came-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2010\/11\/where-the-word-amen-came-from\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Word “Amen” Came From"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hands\"<\/a>Today I found out<\/a> where the word “amen” came from.\u00a0 Specifically, “amen” comes from the Hebrew word… *wait for it*… “\u0101m\u0113n” (\u05d0\u05b8\u05de\u05b5\u05df).<\/p>\n

More interestingly, amen is one of the rare examples where a word has survived thousands of years and been adopted into a few different languages without any real modification to its meaning across time and those languages, dating back pretty much as far as written history, appearing in the earliest Jewish texts.\u00a0 It was (and is) typically used to mean something to the effect of “so be it | let it be so”, in terms of declaring something to be truthful or to confirm or assert it.\u00a0 It was also often used as a way to indicate that one strongly agrees with something, which is where expressions like “amen to that” come from.<\/p>\n

Bonus<\/span> Facts:<\/p>\n