אֵמוּן
ʼêmûwn · H529 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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faithfulness, reliability, trustworthiness
State in which humans are considered worthy of trust, because they are truthful and committed, with an unwavering disposition, which is reflected in their actions
ExamplesDeuteronomy 32:20 “Then He said, ‘I will hide My face from them, I will see what their end will be; For they are a perverse generation, Sons in whom there is no faithfulness.
Proverbs 13:17 A wicked messenger falls into adversity, But a faithful messenger brings healing.
Proverbs 14:5 A trustworthy witness will not lie, But a false witness declares lies.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יִשְׂרָאֵלIsrael 1
What it doesIt is the subject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- פָּסַסto vanish 1
What is done to itIt is the object
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- נָצַרto keep, to guard, to preserve 1
- שָׁמַרto keep, to guard, to observe 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- אִישׁman, person, each 1
- עֵדwitness 1
- צִירmessenger, pangs 1
- שָׁלַםto repay, to make restitution, to complete 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- πιστός pistós · G4103 · one who trusts in, trusting, faithful
- Greek πιστός captures both the objective sense (trustworthy, faithful) and subjective sense (trusting, full of faith) that Hebrew אֵמוּן conveys, representing a direct cross-linguistic equivalent for the reliability/faithfulness semantic field.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Faithful002001002008
- אֵמוּן describes faithfulness or trustworthiness, as the perverse generation in whom no faithfulness is found.
- People001001003
- The word can also denote faithful people themselves, those characterized by steady loyalty.
Word family 17 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H529. emun אֵמֻן noun [masculine] trusting, faithfulness (on formation compare Ges§ 84a…
אֵמֻן noun [masculine] trusting, faithfulness (on formation compare Ges§ 84a R. 12). 1. 1 בָּם אֵמֻן לֹא בָּנִים children in whom there is no trusting Deu 32:20 (poetry) 2. אֱמוּנִים plural abstract faithfulness; א ׳צִיר messenger of faithfulness, trusty messenger Pro 13:17; א ׳עֵד faithful witness Pro 14:5; compare א ׳אִישׁ Pro 20:6; א ׳שֹׁמֵר keeping faithfulness Isa 26:2, perhaps also Psa 31:24 א ׳נצד see I. [ אָמַן].
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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