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Lexicon :: Strong's G2252 - ēmēn

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ἤμην
Transliteration
ēmēn (Key)
Pronunciation
ay'-mane
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Part of Speech
adverb
Root Word (Etymology)
A prolonged form of ἦν (G2258)
mGNT
0x in 0 unique form(s) TR
15x in 1 unique form(s) LXX
0x in 0 unique form(s)
Strong’s Definitions

ἤμην ḗmēn, ay'-mane; a prolonged form of G2258; I was:—be, was. (Sometimes unexpressed).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x

The KJV translates Strong's G2252 in the following manner: was (13x), I imprisoned (with G1473) (with G5439) (1x), I was (with G1473) (1x), should be (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 16x
The KJV translates Strong's G2252 in the following manner: was (13x), I imprisoned (with G1473) (with G5439) (1x), I was (with G1473) (1x), should be (1x).

  1. truly, assuredly

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
ἤμην ḗmēn, ay'-mane; a prolonged form of G2258; I was:—be, was. (Sometimes unexpressed).
STRONGS G2252:
ἦ μήν, assuredly, most certainly, full surely, (a particle used in asserverations, promises, oaths [cf. Winer's Grammar § 53, 7b.; Paley, Greek Particles, p. 38f]): Hebrews 6:14 R G; see εἰ, III. 9. (Sept.; very often in classical Greek from Homer down.)

Related entry:
ἦ μήν, see ἦ.
THAYER’S GREEK LEXICON, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Thayer's

Hebrews
6:14

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number G2252 matches the Greek ἤμην (ēmēn),
which occurs 15 times in 15 verses in the TR Greek.

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:35

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:35 - For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:36

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:36 - I was naked and you clothed me, I was sick and you visited me, I was in prison and you came to me.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mat 25:43

Unchecked Copy BoxMat 25:43 - I was a stranger and you did not welcome me, naked and you did not clothe me, sick and in prison and you did not visit me.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Mar 14:49

Unchecked Copy BoxMar 14:49 - Day after day I was with you in the temple teaching, and you did not seize me. But let the Scriptures be fulfilled.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 11:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 11:15 - and for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 16:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 16:4 - But I have said these things to you, that when their hour comes you may remember that I told them to you. “I did not say these things to you from the beginning, because I was with you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jhn 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJhn 17:12 - While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 10:30

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 10:30 - And Cornelius said, “Four days ago, about this hour, I was praying in my house at the ninth hour,[fn] and behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:5

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:5 - “I was in the city of Joppa praying, and in a trance I saw a vision, something like a great sheet descending, being let down from heaven by its four corners, and it came down to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 11:17 - If then God gave the same gift to them as he gave to us when we believed in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I that I could stand in God’s way?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:19 - And I said, ‘Lord, they themselves know that in one synagogue after another I imprisoned and beat those who believed in you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Act 22:20

Unchecked Copy BoxAct 22:20 - And when the blood of Stephen your witness was being shed, I myself was standing by and approving and watching over the garments of those who killed him.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Co 13:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Co 13:11 - When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:10 - For am I now seeking the approval of man, or of God? Or am I trying to please man? If I were still trying to please man, I would not be a servant[fn] of Christ.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gal 1:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGal 1:22 - And I was still unknown in person to the churches of Judea that are in Christ.
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