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Word study · Hebrew

אָמַן

a.manH0539

be faithful

Used 106 times in the tagged text.

What it means

  • to support, confirm, be faithful
Full dictionary entry (technical)
  • 1) to support, confirm, be faithful
  • 1a) (Qal)
  • 1a1) to support, confirm, be faithful, uphold, nourish
  • 1a1a) foster-father (subst.)
  • 1a1b) foster-mother, nurse
  • 1a1c) pillars, supporters of the door
  • 1b) (Niphal)
  • 1b1) to be established, be faithful, be carried, make firm
  • 1b1a) to be carried by a nurse
  • 1b1b) made firm, sure, lasting
  • 1b1c) confirmed, established, sure
  • 1b1d) verified, confirmed
  • 1b1e) reliable, faithful, trusty
  • 1c) (Hiphil)
  • 1c1) to stand firm, to trust, to be certain, to believe in
  • 1c1a) stand firm
  • 1c1b) trust, believe
  • Aramaic equivalent: a.man (אֲמַן "to trust" H0540)

Same idea, other words · Faith, trust and faithfulness

Faith in Scripture is trust that rests on someone's faithfulness. The Hebrew words about trusting and being firm lie behind the New Testament's pistis.

Where it appears

  • Genesis3
  • Exodus8
  • Numbers4
  • Deuteronomy6
  • Judges1
  • Ruth1
  • 1 Samuel6
  • 2 Samuel2
  • 1 Kings3
  • 2 Kings3
  • 1 Chronicles2
  • 2 Chronicles7
  • Nehemiah2
  • Esther1
  • Job10
  • Psalms16
  • Proverbs5
  • Isaiah15
  • Jeremiah4
  • Lamentations2
  • Hosea2
  • Jonah1
  • Micah1
  • Habakkuk1

Every use · 1–50 of 106 · BSB

  1. Genesis 15:6וְהֶאֱמִ֖ןand he believed

    Abram believed the LORD, and it was credited to him as righteousness.

  2. Genesis 42:20וְיֵאָמְנ֥וּso they may be verified

    Then bring your youngest brother to me so that your words can be verified, that you may not die.” And to this they consented.

  3. Genesis 45:26הֶאֱמִ֖יןhe believed

    “Joseph is still alive,” they said, “and he is ruler over all the land of Egypt!” But Jacob was stunned, for he did not believe them.

  4. Exodus 4:1יַאֲמִ֣ינוּthey will believe

    Then Moses answered, “What if they do not believe me or listen to my voice? For they may say, ‘The LORD has not appeared to you.’”

  5. Exodus 4:5יַאֲמִ֔ינוּthey may believe

    “This is so that they may believe that the LORD, the God of their fathers—the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob—has appeared to you.”

  6. Exodus 4:8יַאֲמִ֣ינוּthey will believe

    And the LORD said, “If they refuse to believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe that of the second.

  7. Exodus 4:8וְהֶֽאֱמִ֔ינוּand they will believe

    And the LORD said, “If they refuse to believe you or heed the witness of the first sign, they may believe that of the second.

  8. Exodus 4:9יַאֲמִ֡ינוּthey will believe

    But if they do not believe even these two signs or listen to your voice, take some water from the Nile and pour it on the dry ground. Then the water you take from the Nile will become blood on the ground.”

  9. Exodus 4:31וַֽיַּאֲמֵ֖ןand it believed

    and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.

  10. Exodus 14:31וַיַּֽאֲמִ֙ינוּ֙and they believed

    When Israel saw the great power that the LORD had exercised over the Egyptians, the people feared the LORD and believed in Him and in His servant Moses.

  11. Exodus 19:9יַאֲמִ֣ינוּthey will trust

    The LORD said to Moses, “Behold, I will come to you in a dense cloud, so that the people will hear when I speak with you, and they will always put their trust in you.” And Moses relayed to the LORD what the people had said.

  12. Numbers 11:12הָאֹמֵן֙<the> foster-father

    Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

  13. Numbers 12:7נֶאֱמָ֥ן[is] faithful

    But this is not so with My servant Moses; he is faithful in all My house.

  14. Numbers 14:11יַאֲמִ֣ינוּwill they believe

    And the LORD said to Moses, “How long will this people treat Me with contempt? How long will they refuse to believe in Me, despite all the signs I have performed among them?

  15. Numbers 20:12הֶאֱמַנְתֶּ֣םyou believed

    But the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “Because you did not trust Me to show My holiness in the sight of the Israelites, you will not bring this assembly into the land that I have given them.”

  16. Deuteronomy 1:32מַאֲמִינִ֔ם[were] trusting

    But in spite of all this, you did not trust the LORD your God,

  17. Deuteronomy 7:9הַֽנֶּאֱמָ֔ן<the> faithful

    Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps His covenant of loving devotion for a thousand generations of those who love Him and keep His commandments.

  18. Deuteronomy 9:23הֶֽאֱמַנְתֶּם֙you believed

    And when the LORD sent you out from Kadesh-barnea, He said, “Go up and possess the land that I have given you.” But you rebelled against the command of the LORD your God. You neither believed Him nor obeyed Him.

  19. Deuteronomy 28:59וְנֶ֣אֱמָנ֔וֹתand lasting

    He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

  20. Deuteronomy 28:59וְנֶאֱמָנִֽיםand lasting

    He will bring upon you and your descendants extraordinary disasters, severe and lasting plagues, and terrible and chronic sicknesses.

  21. Deuteronomy 28:66תַאֲמִ֖יןyou will trust

    So your life will hang in doubt before you, and you will be afraid night and day, never certain of survival.

  22. Judges 11:20הֶאֱמִ֨יןhe trusted

    But Sihon would not trust Israel to pass through his territory. So he gathered all his people, encamped in Jahaz, and fought with Israel.

  23. Ruth 4:16לְאֹמֶֽנֶת<into> a nurse

    And Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a nurse to him.

  24. 1 Samuel 2:35נֶאֱמָ֔ןfaithful

    Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.

  25. 1 Samuel 2:35נֶאֱמָ֔ןsure

    Then I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest. He will do whatever is in My heart and mind. And I will build for him an enduring house, and he will walk before My anointed one for all time.

  26. 1 Samuel 3:20נֶאֱמָ֣ן[was being] established

    So all Israel from Dan to Beersheba knew that Samuel was confirmed as a prophet of the LORD.

  27. 1 Samuel 22:14נֶאֱמָ֔ןfaithful

    Ahimelech answered the king, “Who among all your servants is as faithful as David, the king’s son-in-law, the captain of your bodyguard who is honored in your house?

  28. 1 Samuel 25:28נֶאֱמָ֗ןenduring

    Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD will surely make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because he fights the LORD’s battles. May no evil be found in you as long as you live.

  29. 1 Samuel 27:12וַיַּאֲמֵ֥ןand he trusted

    So Achish trusted David, thinking, “Since he has made himself an utter stench to his people Israel, he will be my servant forever.”

  30. 2 Samuel 4:4אֹֽמַנְתּוֹ֙nurse his

    And Jonathan son of Saul had a son who was lame in his feet. He was five years old when the report about Saul and Jonathan came from Jezreel. His nurse picked him up and fled, but as she was hurrying to escape, he fell and became lame. His name was Mephibosheth.

  31. 2 Samuel 7:16וְנֶאְמַ֨ןand it will be established

    Your house and kingdom will endure forever before Me, and your throne will be established forever.”

  32. 1 Kings 8:26יֵאָ֤מֶןlet it be established

    And now, O God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant, my father David.

  33. 1 Kings 10:7הֶאֱמַ֣נְתִּיI believed

    But I did not believe these things until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not even half was told to me. Your wisdom and prosperity have far exceeded the report I heard.

  34. 1 Kings 11:38נֶאֱמָן֙enduring

    If you listen to all that I command you, walk in My ways, and do what is right in My sight in order to keep My statutes and commandments as My servant David did, then I will be with you. I will build you a lasting dynasty just as I built for David, and I will give Israel to you.

  35. 2 Kings 10:1הָאֹמְנִ֥יםthe guardians

    Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:

  36. 2 Kings 10:5וְהָאֹמְנִ֨יםand the guardians

    So the palace administrator, the overseer of the city, the elders, and the guardians sent a message to Jehu: “We are your servants, and we will do whatever you say. We will not make anyone king. Do whatever is good in your sight.”

  37. 2 Kings 17:14הֶאֱמִ֔ינוּthey trusted

    But they would not listen, and they stiffened their necks like their fathers, who did not believe the LORD their God.

  38. 1 Chronicles 17:23יֵאָמֵ֖ןlet it be established

    And now, O LORD, let the word You have spoken concerning Your servant and his house be established forever. Do as You have promised,

  39. 1 Chronicles 17:24וְ֠יֵֽאָמֵןand it may be established

    so that Your name will be established and magnified forever when it is said, ‘The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, is God over Israel.’ And may the house of Your servant David be established before You.

  40. 2 Chronicles 1:9יֵֽאָמֵן֙let it be established

    Now, O LORD God, let Your promise to my father David be fulfilled. For You have made me king over a people as numerous as the dust of the earth.

  41. 2 Chronicles 6:17יֵֽאָמֵן֙let it be established

    And now, O LORD, God of Israel, please confirm what You promised to Your servant David.

  42. 2 Chronicles 9:6הֶאֱמַ֣נְתִּיI believed

    But I did not believe the reports until I came and saw with my own eyes. Indeed, not half of the greatness of your wisdom was told to me. You have far exceeded the report I heard.

  43. 2 Chronicles 20:20הַאֲמִ֜ינוּtrust

    Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

  44. 2 Chronicles 20:20וְתֵ֣אָמֵ֔נוּso you may be established

    Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

  45. 2 Chronicles 20:20הַאֲמִ֥ינוּtrust

    Early in the morning they got up and left for the Wilderness of Tekoa. As they set out, Jehoshaphat stood up and said, “Hear me, O people of Judah and Jerusalem. Believe in the LORD your God, and you will be upheld; believe in His prophets, and you will succeed.”

  46. 2 Chronicles 32:15תַּאֲמִ֣ינוּyou believe

    So now, do not let Hezekiah deceive you, and do not let him mislead you like this. Do not believe him, for no god of any nation or kingdom has been able to deliver his people from my hand or from the hand of my fathers. How much less will your God deliver you from my hand!”

  47. Nehemiah 9:8נֶאֱמָ֣ןfaithful

    You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites— to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.

  48. Nehemiah 13:13נֶאֱמָנִים֙reliable

    I appointed as treasurers over the storerooms Shelemiah the priest, Zadok the scribe, and Pedaiah of the Levites, with Hanan son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah, to assist them, because they were considered trustworthy. They were responsible for distributing the supplies to their fellow Levites.

  49. Esther 2:7אֹמֵ֜ןraising

    And Mordecai had brought up Hadassah (that is, Esther), the daughter of his uncle, because she did not have a father or mother. The young woman was lovely in form and appearance, and when her father and mother had died, Mordecai had taken her in as his own daughter.

  50. Job 4:18יַאֲמִ֑יןhe trusts

    If God puts no trust in His servants, and He charges His angels with error,

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