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# קֹשְׁטְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7189

**truth** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

truth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7189/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

קשְׁטְ: n.m. truth [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7189/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. truth;—Pr 22:21 (according to Toy Aramaic gloss to foll. אִמְרֵי אֱמֶת).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 22:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.21/#tree)

לְהוֹדִֽיעֲךָ֗ קֹ֭שְׁטְאִמְרֵ֣י אֱמֶ֑ת לְהָשִׁ֥יב אֲמָרִ֥ים אֱ֝מֶ֗ת לְשֹׁלְחֶֽיךָ׃פ

*Word for word:* to make known.to.you \[the\].truth of.words of.faithfulness to bring.back words faithfulness to \[those who\].sent.you

*JPS 1917:* That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth, that thou mightest bring back words of truth to them that send thee?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7189.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1511/7189/): 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).