אָמַן
ʼâman · aw-man'
properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain;
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root; (Isaiah 30:21; interchangeable with H541 (אָמַן), to go to the right hand)
properly, to build up or support; to foster as a parent or nurse; figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet; morally to be true or certain;
- properly, to build up or support
- to foster as a parent or nurse
- figuratively, to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet
- morally to be true or certain
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: hence, assurance, believe, bring up, establish, [phrase] fail, be faithful (of long continuance, stedfast, sure, surely, trusty, verified), nurse, (-ing father), (put), trust, turn to the right.
Letters
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
strength, the leader › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the seed, life continuing
Strength, the leader of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of אָמַן above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
106 occurrences · 106 OT · 0 NT · 88 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- believed4 · 10%
- the faithful3 · 7%
- believe3 · 7%
- faithful3 · 7%
- and it shall come to pass, if they will not believe2 · 5%
- and of long continuance2 · 5%
- be established2 · 5%
- be verified2 · 5%
- howbeit i believed2 · 5%
- and faithful2 · 5%
- trust2 · 5%
- but, behold, they will not believe1 · 2%
- and shalt have none assurance1 · 2%
- that they may believe1 · 2%
- and ye believed1 · 2%
- for he believed1 · 2%
- because ye believed1 · 2%
- they believe1 · 2%
- is not so, who is faithful1 · 2%
- as a nursing father1 · 2%
- with thee, and believe1 · 2%
- ye did not believe1 · 2%
- and believed1 · 2%
- that they will believe1 · 2%
- and he believed1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.