Editing Amen (section)

===Hebrew Bible===
The word occurs in the [[Hebrew Bible]] 30 times; in Deuteronomy alone 12 times beginning at 27:15. The fixed phrase 'Amen, Amen' is seen five times – Psalm 41:13; 72:19; 89:52; Numbers 5:22; Nehemiah 8:6. It is translated as 'of truth' two times in Isaiah 65:16. Three distinct Biblical usages of ''amen'' may be noted:<ref name="ce"/>
# Initial ''amen'', referring back to words of another speaker and introducing an affirmative sentence, e.g. 1 [[Books of Kings|Kings]] 1:36.<ref name="ce"/>
# Detached ''amen'', again referring to the words of another speaker but without a complementary affirmative sentence, e.g. Nehemiah 5:13.<ref name="ce"/>
# Final ''amen'', with no change of speaker, as in the subscription to the first three divisions of [[Psalms]].<ref name="ce"/>