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אָמַן ʼâman — to take the right hand road

pronounced aw-man' · Strong's H541 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Hiph'il

Translated in the KJV as turn to the right. See H539.

denominative from H3225; to take the right hand road.

ʼâman in each stem

Hiph'il

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Imperfect (yiqtol) 1

תַאֲמִ֖ינוּ Isa 30:21 Imperfect (yiqtol), 2nd person masculine plural

And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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