AMEN Hebrew word meaning “so it is” or “let it be,” derived from a verb meaning “to be firm or sure.” Some translations of the Bible always retain the Hebrew word amen in the text. Others translate it by an expression such as “truly” or “I tell you the truth,” or sometimes omit it altogether. Because of its use in the OT, “amen” was also used in Christian worship and religious writings, including the Greek NT.
APOSTLE. There are over 80 occurrences of the Gk. word apostolos in the NT, mostly in Luke and Paul. It derives from the very common verb apostellō to send, but in non-Christian Gk., after Herodotus in the 5th century BC, there are few recorded cases where it means ‘a person sent’, and it generally means ‘fleet’, or perhaps occasionally ‘admiral’.
