Word study · Hebrew
אֱמֶת
e.metH0571truth: faithful
Used 127 times in the tagged text.
H0571G · אֱמֶת · truth: faithful
What it means
- firmness, faithfulness, truth
- in truth, truly
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : faithful
- 1) firmness, faithfulness, truth
- 1a) sureness, reliability
- 1b) stability, continuance
- 1c) faithfulness, reliableness
- 1d) truth
- 1d1) as spoken
- 1d2) of testimony and judgment
- 1d3) of divine instruction
- 1d4) truth as a body of ethical or religious knowledge
- 1d5) true doctrine
- adv
- 2) in truth, truly
H0571H · אֱמֶת · truth: true
What it means
- firmness, faithfulness, truth
- in truth, truly
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : true
- 1) firmness, faithfulness, truth
- 1a) sureness, reliability
- 1b) stability, continuance
- 1c) faithfulness, reliableness
- 1d) truth
- 1d1) as spoken
- 1d2) of testimony and judgment
- 1d3) of divine instruction
- 1d4) truth as a body of ethical or religious knowledge
- 1d5) true doctrine
- adv
- 2) in truth, truly
H0571I · אֱמֶת · truth: certain
What it means
- firmness, faithfulness, truth
- in truth, truly
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- : certain/fixed
- 1) firmness, faithfulness, truth
- 1a) sureness, reliability
- 1b) stability, continuance
- 1c) faithfulness, reliableness
- 1d) truth
- 1d1) as spoken
- 1d2) of testimony and judgment
- 1d3) of divine instruction
- 1d4) truth as a body of ethical or religious knowledge
- 1d5) true doctrine
- adv
- 2) in truth, truly
Same idea, other words · Truth and faithfulness
The Hebrew word for truth is the same root as reliability: what can be leaned on. Greek truth adds the sense of what is real as opposed to false.
Where it appears
- Genesis6
- Exodus2
- Deuteronomy3
- Joshua3
- Judges3
- 1 Samuel1
- 2 Samuel3
- 1 Kings5
- 2 Kings2
- 2 Chronicles5
- Nehemiah3
- Esther1
- Psalms37
- Proverbs12
- Ecclesiastes1
- Isaiah12
- Jeremiah11
- Ezekiel2
- Daniel6
- Hosea1
- Micah1
- Zechariah6
- Malachi1
Every use · 1–50 of 127 · BSB
saying, “Blessed be the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who has not withheld His kindness and faithfulness from my master. As for me, the LORD has led me on the journey to the house of my master’s relatives.”
Then I bowed down and worshiped the LORD; and I blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right road to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son.
Now if you will show kindness and faithfulness to my master, tell me; but if not, let me know, so that I may go elsewhere.”
I am unworthy of all the kindness and faithfulness You have shown Your servant. Indeed, with only my staff I came across the Jordan, but now I have become two camps.
Send one of your number to get your brother; the rest of you will be confined so that the truth of your words may be tested. If they are untrue, then as surely as Pharaoh lives, you are spies!”
When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
Furthermore, select capable men from among the people—God-fearing, trustworthy men who are averse to dishonest gain. Appoint them over the people as leaders of thousands, of hundreds, of fifties, and of tens.
Then the LORD passed in front of Moses and called out: “The LORD, the LORD God, is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion and faithfulness,
then you must inquire, investigate, and interrogate thoroughly. And if it is established with certainty that this abomination has been committed among you,
and if it is reported and you hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. If the report is true and such an abomination has happened in Israel,
If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,
Now therefore, please swear to me by the LORD that you will indeed show kindness to my family, because I showed kindness to you. Give me a sure sign
“Our lives for your lives!” the men agreed. “If you do not report our mission, we will show you kindness and faithfulness when the LORD gives us the land.”
Now, therefore, fear the LORD and serve Him in sincerity and truth; cast aside the gods your fathers served beyond the Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve the LORD.
But the thornbush replied, ‘If you really are anointing me as king over you, come and find refuge in my shade. But if not, may fire come out of the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’
Now if you have acted faithfully and honestly in making Abimelech king, if you have done well by Jerubbaal and his family, and if you have done to him as he deserves—
if you have acted faithfully and honestly toward Jerubbaal and his house this day, then may you rejoice in Abimelech, and he in you.
Above all, fear the LORD and serve Him faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things He has done for you.
Now may the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness, and I will also show you the same favor because you have done this.
And now, O Lord GOD, You are God! Your words are true, and You have promised this goodness to Your servant.
In fact, you arrived only yesterday; should I make you wander around with us today while I do not know where I am going? Go back and take your brothers with you. May the LORD show you loving devotion and faithfulness.”
and so that the LORD may fulfill His promise to me: ‘If your descendants take heed to walk faithfully before Me with all their heart and soul, you will never fail to have a man on the throne of Israel.’
Solomon replied, “You have shown much loving devotion to Your servant, my father David, because he walked before You in faithfulness, righteousness, and uprightness of heart. And You have maintained this loving devotion by giving him a son to sit on his throne this very day.
She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your words and wisdom is true.
Then the woman said to Elijah, “Now I know that you are a man of God and that the word of the LORD from your mouth is truth.”
But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”
“Please, O LORD, remember how I have walked before You faithfully and with wholehearted devotion; I have done what was good in Your sight.” And Hezekiah wept bitterly.
But Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “The word of the LORD that you have spoken is good.” For he thought, “Will there not at least be peace and security in my lifetime?”
She said to the king, “The report I heard in my own country about your words and wisdom is true.
For many years Israel has been without the true God, without a priest to instruct them, and without the law.
But the king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear not to tell me anything but the truth in the name of the LORD?”
So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the LORD his God.
After all these acts of faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and invaded Judah. He laid siege to the fortified cities, intending to conquer them for himself.
Then I put my brother Hanani in charge of Jerusalem, along with Hananiah the commander of the fortress, because he was a faithful man who feared God more than most.
You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven. You gave them just ordinances, true laws, and good statutes and commandments.
You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.
And Mordecai sent letters with words of peace and truth to all the Jews in the 127 provinces of the kingdom of Xerxes,
He who walks with integrity and practices righteousness, who speaks the truth from his heart,
The fear of the LORD is pure, enduring forever; the judgments of the LORD are true, being altogether righteous.
Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation; all day long I wait for You.
All the LORD’s ways are loving and faithful to those who keep His covenant and His decrees.
For Your loving devotion is before my eyes, and I have walked in Your truth.
“What gain is there in my bloodshed, in my descent to the Pit? Will the dust praise You? Will it proclaim Your faithfulness?
Into Your hands I commit my spirit; You have redeemed me, O LORD, God of truth.
I have not covered up Your righteousness in my heart; I have declared Your faithfulness and salvation; I have not concealed Your loving devotion and faithfulness from the great assembly.
O LORD, do not withhold Your mercy from me; Your loving devotion and faithfulness will always guard me.
Send out Your light and Your truth; let them lead me. Let them bring me to Your holy mountain, and to the place where You dwell.
In your splendor ride forth in victory on behalf of truth and humility and justice; may your right hand show your awesome deeds.
Surely You desire truth in the inmost being; You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
He will reward my enemies with evil. In Your faithfulness, destroy them.
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