Truth
אֱמֶתStrong’s H0571emet (e-met)
Appears in 125 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Truth as firmness and faithfulness: what can be relied on. It comes from the same root as "amen". "Thy word is true from the beginning" (Psalm 119:160).
“Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever.”
Meaning
- Firmness, faithfulness, truthsureness, reliability · stability, continuance · faithfulness, reliableness · truth
- In truth, truly
How it's translated
- truth 33
- faithfulness 22
- and faithfulness 16
- in faithfulness 13
- faithfulness your 8
- in truth 7
- and truth 5
- reliability 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 37
- Isaiah 12
- Proverbs 11
- Jeremiah 11
- Genesis 6
- Daniel 6
23 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 8:12In contextAnd an host was given him against the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practised, and prospered.
- Daniel 8:26In contextAnd the vision of the evening and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for it shall be for many days.
- Daniel 9:13In contextAs it is written in the law of Moses, all this evil is come upon us: yet made we not our prayer before the LORD our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth.
- Daniel 10:1In contextIn the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.
- Daniel 10:21In contextBut I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince.
- Daniel 11:2In contextAnd now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia.
All 125 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
אֱמֶת emet · truth
: faithful 1) firmness, faithfulness, truth 1a) sureness, reliability 1b) stability, continuance 1c) faithfulness, reliableness 1d) truth 1d1) as spoken 1d2) of testimony and judgment 1d3) of divine instruction 1d4) truth as a body of ethical or religious knowledge 1d5) true doctrine adv 2) in truth, truly
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “truth” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
TRUTH, noun
- Conformity to fact or reality; exact accordance with that which is, or has been, or shall be.“My mouth shall speak truth” Proverbs 8:7“Sanctify them through thy truth; thy word is truth” John 17:17
- True state of facts or things.
- Conformity of words to thoughts, which is called moral truth
- Veracity; purity from falsehood; practice of speaking truth; habitual disposition to speak truth; as when we say, a man is a man of truth
All definitions
- Correct opinion.
- Fidelity; constancy.
- Honesty; virtue.
- Exactness; conformity to rule.
- Real fact of just principle; real state of things.
- Sincerity.“God is a spirit, and they that worship him must worship in spirit and in truth” John 4:24
- The truth of God, is his veracity and faithfulness. Psalms 71:22“I have walked in thy truth” Psalms 26:3
- Jesus Christ is called the truth John 14.
- It is sometimes used by way of concession.“She said, truth Lord; yet the dogs eat of the crums--” Matthew 15:27
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.