Truth
קְשֹׁטStrong’s H7187qeshot (qe-shot)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Qeshot is the Aramaic word usually translated “truth”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.”
Meaning
- Truth
How it's translated
- truth 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Aramaic dictionary
קְשֹׁט qeshot · truth
truth Aramaic of qosh.te (קֹשְׁטְ "truth" H7189B)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.