Amen vs Amend - What's the difference?
amen | amend |
At the end of religious prayers: so be it.
* 1997 , Contemporary American religion: an ethnographic reader :
* 1662 , Book of Common Prayer :
* KJV, Nehemiah 5:13:
* KJV, Psalm 72:18-19:
At the end of a creed or in Koranic and Biblical translations: truly, verily.
* 2006 , The Islamic Traditions of Cirebon: Ibadat and Adat Among Javanese Muslims, page 103
* Rhemish Translation, John 3:5:
An expression of strong agreement.
* 1999 May, Matt Groening, “Hell Is Other Robots”, Futurama , season 1, episode 9
An instance of saying ‘amen’.
* 2006 , Evault Boswell, The Iron Mountain Baby
A title of Christ; the Faithful One (especially with reference to Revelation 3:14)
* 1611 , — Revelation 3:14, KJV
To make better.
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* Shakespeare
* Sir Walter Scott
To become better.
(obsolete) To heal (someone sick); to cure (a disease etc.).
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.x:
*, II.2.6.ii:
To make a formal alteration in legislation by adding, deleting, or rephrasing.
As verbs the difference between amen and amend
is that amen is to say Amen while amend is to make better.As an adverb amen
is at the end of religious prayers: so be it.As an interjection amen
is an expression of strong agreement.As a noun amen
is an instance of saying ‘amen’.As a proper noun Amen
is an English surname.amen
English
Adverb
(-)- Frequently "Amen" or Baha'u'l-Abha could be heard during devotions
- Thine is the kingdom, the power, and the glory, for ever and ever. Amen .
- Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen , and praised the Lord. And the people did according to this promise. — Nehemiah 5:13, KJV
- Blessed be the Lord God, the God of Israel, who only doeth wondrous things. And blessed be his glorious name for ever: and let the whole earth be filled with his glory; Amen', and ' Amen .
- Throughout the praying the audience responds repeatedly with Amen .
- Amen', ' amen , I say to thee, except a man be born again, he can not see the kingdom of God.
- At the end of surah Fatiha, you should say amen .
Interjection
(en interjection)- Fry:'' Bender's stupid religion is driving me nuts! / ''Leela: Amen !
Noun
(en noun)- A chorus of amens rang out across the audience.
- And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write; These things saith the Amen , the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God
Anagrams
* * * * * * English responses ----amend
English
Verb
(en verb)- Mar not the thing that cannot be amended .
- We shall cheer her sorrows, and amend her blood, by wedding her to a Norman.
- But Paridell complaynd, that his late fight / With Britomart, so sore did him offend, / That ryde he could not, till his hurts he did amend .
- he gave her a vomit, and conveyed a serpent, such as she conceived, into the basin; upon the sight of it she was amended .