What does "amen" mean?

[Aeden]

I’ve heard that it means “let it be,” but in what sense does it mean this? Is it a request like “please let what I have prayed for be?” Is it a submission to God as in “let it be according to Your will?” Is it some other sense of the phrase or a different phrase entirely?

 

[Thomas_Peter]

I’ve heard that it means “let it be,” but in what sense does it mean this? Is it a request like “please let what I have prayed for be?” Is it a submission to God as in “let it be according to Your will?” Is it some other sense of the phrase or a different phrase entirely?

I was told it meant “I agree”

 

[ProdigalSon1211]

I am pretty sure it means “let it be” or “it stands as it is”

 

[andrewstx]

It means “so be it” in Hebrew.

 

[Aelred_Minor]

It’s also often translated as “truly” in context of Christ’s sayings that begin “Amen, Amen, I say to you…”

 

[Joko2599]

I was always taught that it meant “I believe”.

 

[detoutcoeur]

I was always taught that it meant “I believe”.

So was I. Here’s how CA answers the question:

catholic.com/quickquestions/what-exactly-does-amen-mean

 

[Offdoodykcrn]

‘So be it’ - so sayeth the google…

 

[VanSensei]

I always thought it was a contraction of the Hebrew: אני מאמין, I believe.

 

[Apologist88]

In Hebrew and Greek it means verily, truly, so be it

 

[littlenothing]

Like Cosi sia in Italian, its emphatic. Like saying that’s the way it is! Verrai!