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# אֱמוּן

Biblical Hebrew

**trusting** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

trusting [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5de_5d5_5bc_5df/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֵמֻן: trusting, faithfulness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5de_5d5_5bc_5df/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] trusting, faithfulness (on format. cf. Ges§ 84 a R. 12). בָּנִים לֹא אֵמֻן בָּם children in whom there is no trusting Dt 32:20 (poet.) אֱמוּנִים pl. abst. faithfulness; צִיר א׳ messenger of faithfulness, trusty messenger Pr 13:17; עֵד א׳ faithful witness Pr 14:5; cf. אִישׁ א׳ Pr 20:6; שֹׁמֵר א׳ keeping faithfulness Is 26:2; perhaps also ψ 31:24 נצר א׳ v. I. \[אָמַן\].

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: faithful \[people\] (2); of the faithful \[ones\] (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 12:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.12.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.12.2/#tree)

הוֹשִׁ֣יעָה יְ֭הוָה כִּי־גָמַ֣ר חָסִ֑יד כִּי־פַ֥סּוּ אֱ֝מוּנִ֗ים מִבְּנֵ֥י אָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* save O.Yahweh (dm) he.has.come.to.an.end \[the\].faithful (dm) they.have.vanished faithful.\[people\] from.\[the\] children of.humankind

*JPS 1917:* Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

[Psalms 31:24](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.31.24/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.31.24/#tree)

אֶֽהֱב֥וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֗ה כָּֽל־חֲסִ֫ידָ֥יו אֱ֭מוּנִים נֹצֵ֣ר יְהוָ֑ה וּמְשַׁלֵּ֥ם עַל־יֶ֝֗תֶר עֹשֵׂ֥ה גַאֲוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* love (et) Yahweh O.all his.faithful \[people\] faithful.\[people\] \[is\].preserving Yahweh and \[he.is\].repaying on excess \[one.who\].does (of).pride

*JPS 1917:* O love the LORD, all ye His godly ones; the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully repayeth him that acteth haughtily.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5de_5d5_5bc_5df.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/lemma_3a_5d0_5b1_5de_5d5_5bc_5df/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).