Faithfulness
אֱמוּנָהStrong’s H0530emunah (e-mu-nah)
Appears in 49 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Emunah is the Hebrew word usually translated “faithfulness”, “faithfulness your” and “faithfulness his”. It appears in 49 verses of the Old Testament.
“But Moses’ hands were heavy; and they took a stone, and put it under him, and he sat thereon; and Aaron and Hur stayed up his hands, the one on the one side, and the other on the other side; and his hands were steady until the going down of the sun.”
Meaning
- Firmness, fidelity, steadfastness, steadiness
How it's translated
- faithfulness 10
- in faithfulness 10
- faithfulness your 8
- and faithfulness 3
- faithfulness his 2
- in faithfulness their 2
- and faithfulness your 2
- in faithfulness your 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 22
- 2 Chronicles 5
- Isaiah 4
- Jeremiah 4
- 1 Chronicles 3
- Proverbs 3
13 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 32:4He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.
- 1 Samuel 26:23The LORD render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness; for the LORD delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the LORD’s anointed.
- 2 Kings 12:15Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.
- 2 Kings 22:7Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand, because they dealt faithfully.
- 1 Chronicles 9:22All these which were chosen to be porters in the gates were two hundred and twelve. These were reckoned by their genealogy in their villages, whom David and Samuel the seer did ordain in their set office.
- 1 Chronicles 9:26For these Levites, the four chief porters, were in their set office, and were over the chambers and treasuries of the house of God.
All 49 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אֱמוּנָה emunah · faithfulness
firmness, fidelity, steadfastness, steadiness
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “faithfulness” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FA'ITHFULNESS, noun
- Fidelity; loyalty; firm adherence to allegiance and duty; as the faithfulness of a subject.
- Truth; veracity; as the faithfulness of God.
- Strict adherence to injunctions, and to the duties of a station; as the faithfulness of servants or ministers.
- Strict performance of promises, vows or covenants; constancy in affection; as the faithfulness of a husband or wife.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.