אׇמְנָה
om.nah
brought up
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# H0545 (אׇמְנָה / om.nah): A Rare Biblical Term The Hebrew word *om.nah* carries the meaning "brought up," indicating someone who has been raised or nurtured. Based on the lexicon data, this word appears only once in the biblical text, making it a hapax legomenon—a term that occurs in only a single location. This rarity limits our ability to observe how the word was used across different contexts or to determine its full semantic range through comparative biblical usage. The single occurrence prevents us from drawing broader conclusions about nuance or context-dependent variations in meaning. Scholars and translators working with this word must rely primarily on its root connections and the specific passage where it appears, rather than on patterns observed across multiple uses. For readers seeking to understand this term's significance within biblical literature, its uniqueness itself is notable—it represents a specialized vocabulary item that appears to have been selected for a particular narrative purpose but was not employed elsewhere in the surviving biblical text.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
1 total occurrence across the text