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אֶמֶת

emet · faithfulness, truth

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H571 · appears 127 times in the Bible

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What it means

emet (אֶמֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “faithfulness, truth”.

Truth, firmness. Said of a person or of God, faithfulness: he can be trusted because he keeps his word. It often goes with "loyal love".

How to say it

e·met

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. The firmness of what stands and does not move; hence, what can be relied on.
  2. That one can rely on him because he keeps his word.
  3. What corresponds to the facts, what is so and not otherwise.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Truth, firmness; said of a person or of God, faithfulness: one can trust him because he keeps his word. BDB: stability; figuratively, certainty, truth, trustworthiness. It comes from אָמַן, “to be firm” (H539).

How we translate it

“Truth” 85 times, “faithfulness” 23, “true” 15, “faithfully” 3. This edition sets “truth” and admits “faithfulness” when it goes with חֶסֶד or describes a conduct; so חֶסֶד וֶאֱמֶת is “loyal love and faithfulness”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • truth ×85
  • faithfulness ×23
  • true ×15
  • faithfully ×3
  • has truly ×1

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Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 24:27

    and said, “Blessed be YHWH, the Elohim of my lord Abraham, who has not abandoned his loyal love and his faithfulness toward my lord. As for me, YHWH has led me on the way to the house of my lord’s brothers.”

  • Genesis 24:48

    And I bowed my head and bowed down to YHWH, and I blessed YHWH, the Elohim of my lord Abraham, who had led me on a true way to take the daughter of my lord’s brother for his son.

  • Genesis 24:49

    So now, if you are going to show loyal love and faithfulness to my lord, tell me; and if not, tell me, so that I may turn to the right or to the left.”

  • Genesis 32:10

    I am too small for all the acts of loyal love and all the faithfulness that you have shown your servant; for with my staff I crossed this Jordan, and now I have become two camps.

  • Genesis 42:16

    Send one of you, and let him get your brother, while you are kept in prison, so that your words may be tested, whether the truth is with you; and if not, by the life of Pharaoh, surely you are spies.”

  • Genesis 47:29

    The days of Israel drew near to die, and he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please put your hand under my thigh, and deal with me in loyal love and faithfulness: please do not bury me in Egypt.

  • Exodus 18:21

    And you shall look for, from all the people, capable men, who fear Elohim, men of truth, who hate unjust gain; and place them over them as chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens.

  • Exodus 34:6

    And YHWH passed by before him and proclaimed, “YHWH, YHWH, an El merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in loyal love and faithfulness,

  • Deuteronomy 13:14

    then you shall seek and investigate and ask thoroughly. And look, if it is true and the matter certain, that this abomination has been done among you,

  • Deuteronomy 17:4

    and it is told to you and you hear of it, then you shall seek thoroughly. And look, if it is true and the matter certain, that this abomination has been done in Israel,

  • Deuteronomy 22:20

    But if this thing is true, and virginity was not found in the young woman,

  • Joshua 2:12

    Now please swear to me by YHWH, since I have shown loyal love to you, that you also will show loyal love to the house of my father, and give me a sign of truth,

  • Joshua 2:14

    And the men said to her, “Our life for yours to the death, if you do not tell this matter of ours. And it shall be, when YHWH gives us the land, that we will show you loyal love and faithfulness.”

  • Joshua 24:14

    And now fear YHWH and serve him with integrity and with truth; and put away the gods that your fathers served beyond the River Euphrates and in Egypt, and serve YHWH.

  • Judges 9:15

    The thornbush said to the trees, ‘If in truth you are anointing me as king over you, come, take refuge in my shade; but if not, let fire come out from the thornbush and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’

  • Judges 9:16

    Now then, if you have acted in truth and integrity in making Abimelech king, and if you have done well with Jerubbaal and with his house, and if you have done to him as his hands deserved —

  • Judges 9:19

    if in truth and integrity you have acted with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, rejoice in Abimelech, and may he also rejoice in you.

  • 1 Samuel 12:24

    Only fear YHWH and serve him in truth with all your heart, for see what great things he has done with you.

  • 2 Samuel 2:6

    And now may YHWH do loyal love and faithfulness with you; and I also will do this good with you, because you have done this thing.

  • 2 Samuel 7:28

    And now, Adonai YHWH, you are Elohim, and your words are truth, and you have spoken to your servant this good thing.

  • 2 Samuel 15:20

    Yesterday you came, and today shall I make you wander with us in going, while I go wherever I may go? Go back, and take back your brothers with you. Loyal love and faithfulness be with you.”

  • 1 Kings 2:4

    so that YHWH may confirm his word that he spoke concerning me, saying, ‘If your sons keep their way, walking before me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul,’ saying, ‘there shall not be cut off for you a man from the throne of Israel.’

  • 1 Kings 3:6

    And Solomon said, “You have shown your servant David my father great loyal love, because he walked before you in truth and in righteousness and in uprightness of heart toward you; and you have kept for him this great loyal love and have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day.

  • 1 Kings 10:6

    And she said to the king, “True was the word that I heard in my land about your words and about your wisdom.

  • 1 Kings 17:24

    The woman said to Elijah, “Now this I know, that you are a man of Elohim, and the word of YHWH in your mouth is truth.”

  • 1 Kings 22:16

    The king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of YHWH?”

  • 2 Kings 20:3

    “Ah, YHWH, remember, please, how I have walked before you in truth and with a whole heart, and have done what is good in your eyes.” And Hezekiah wept with great weeping.

  • 2 Kings 20:19

    Hezekiah said to Isaiah, “Good is the word of YHWH that you have spoken.” And he said, “Is it not so, if there will be peace and truth in my days?”

  • 2 Chronicles 9:5

    She said to the king, “True was the word that I heard in my land about your words and about your wisdom.

  • 2 Chronicles 15:3

    Many days Israel was without the true Elohim, and without a priest who taught, and without instruction.

  • 2 Chronicles 18:15

    The king said to him, “How many times must I make you swear that you speak to me nothing but the truth in the name of YHWH?”

  • 2 Chronicles 31:20

    Thus Hezekiah did in all Judah; and he did what was good and right and true before YHWH his Elohim.

  • 2 Chronicles 32:1

    After these things and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came and entered Judah and encamped against the fortified cities and intended to break into them for himself.

  • Nehemiah 7:2

    And I put Hanani my brother, and Hananiah the leader of the fortress, in charge of Jerusalem, for he was like a man of truth and feared Elohim more than many.

  • Nehemiah 9:13

    And on Mount Sinai you came down, and spoke with them from the heavens, and gave them right rules and instructions of truth, good statutes and commandments.

  • Nehemiah 9:33

    Yet you are righteous in all that has come upon us, for faithfully you have acted, while we have done wickedly.

  • Esther 9:30

    And he sent letters to all the Jews, to the hundred and twenty-seven provinces of the kingdom of Ahasuerus, words of peace and truth,

  • Psalms 15:2

    He who walks blameless and does righteousness, and speaks truth in his heart;

  • Psalms 19:9

    The fear of YHWH is pure, enduring forever; the rules of YHWH are truth; they are righteous altogether.

  • Psalms 25:5

    Direct me in your truth and teach me, for you are the Elohim of my salvation; for you I have waited all the day.

And 87 more times.