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# אֲמָנָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H548

**faith** — used 2 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

faith [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/548/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲמָנָה: n.f. faith, support [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/548/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. faith, support. אֲנַחְנוּ כֹּרְתִים אֲמָנָה we are plighting faith (make a sure covenant AV RV) Ne 10:1. א׳ עַל המ׳ support, fixed provision, for the singers Ne 11:23.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a fixed provision (1); a trustworthy agreement (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 11:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.11.23/#tree)

כִּֽי־מִצְוַ֥ת הַמֶּ֖לֶךְ עֲלֵיהֶ֑ם וַאֲמָנָ֥ה עַל־הַמְשֹׁרְרִ֖ים דְּבַר־י֥וֹם בְּיוֹמֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) the.commandment of the.king \[was\].on them and a.fixed.provision \[was\].on the singers \[the\].matter of.a.day in day its

*JPS 1917:* For there was a commandment from the king concerning them, and a sure ordinance concerning the singers, as every day required.

[Nehemiah 10:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.1/#tree)

וּבְכָל־זֹ֕את אֲנַ֛חְנוּ כֹּרְתִ֥ים אֲמָנָ֖ה וְכֹתְבִ֑ים וְעַל֙ הֶֽחָת֔וּם שָׂרֵ֥ינוּ לְוִיֵּ֖נוּ כֹּהֲנֵֽינוּ׃

*Word for word:* and in all this we \[are\].making a.trustworthy.agreement and \[we.are\].writing.\[it\] and.\[are\] on the.sealed \[document\] leaders our Levites our priests our

*JPS 1917:* And yet for all this we make a sure covenant, and subscribe it; and our princes, our Levites, and our priests, set their seal unto it.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/548.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/548/): 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).