Strong's #539: 'aman (pronounced aw-man')
a primitive root; 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; once (Isa. 30:21; interchangeable with 541) to go to the right hand:--hence, assurance, believe, bring up, establish, + fail, be faithful (of long continuance, stedfast, sure, surely, trusty, verified), nurse, (-ing father), (put), trust, turn to the right.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'âman
1) to support, confirm, be faithful
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to support, confirm, be faithful, uphold, nourish
1a1a) foster-father (substantive)
1a1b) foster-mother, nurse
1a1c) pillars, supporters of the door
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be established, be faithful, be carried, make firm
1b1a) to be carried by a nurse
1b1b) made firm, sure, lasting
1b1c) confirmed, established, sure
1b1d) verified, confirmed
1b1e) reliable, faithful, trusty
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to stand firm, to trust, to be certain, to believe in
1c1a) stand firm
1c1b) trust, believe
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 108 times:
Genesis 15:6: " And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness."
Genesis 42:20: "brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so."
Genesis 45:26: "And Jacob's heart fainted, for he believed them not."
Exodus 4:1: "and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for"
Exodus 4:5: " they may believe that the LORD God of their fathers, the God of Abraham,"
Exodus 4:8: "if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first"
Exodus 4:8: "to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign."
Exodus 4:9: "if they will not believe also these two signs,"
Exodus 4:31: " believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children"
Exodus 14:31: "feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses."
Exodus 19:9: "may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee forever. And Moses told"
Numbers 11:12: "me, Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child, unto"
Numbers 12:7: "is not so, who is faithful in all mine house."
Numbers 14:11: "people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs"
Numbers 20:12: "Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children"
Deuteronomy 1:32: "thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,"
Deuteronomy 7:9: "thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy"
Deuteronomy 9:23: "the commandment of the LORD your God, and ye believed him not, nor hearkened"
Deuteronomy 28:59: "of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance."
Deuteronomy 28:59: "and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance."
Deuteronomy 28:66: "before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:"
Judges 11:20: " trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon"
Ruth 4:16: "and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse"
1 Samuel 2:35: " a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build"
1 Samuel 2:35: "is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed"
1 Samuel 3:20: "Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD."
1 Samuel 22:14: "the king, and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, which is the king's"
1 Samuel 25:28: "the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord"
1 Samuel 27:12: " believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor"
2 Samuel 4:4: "of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel, and his nurse took him up, and fled: and it came to pass,"
2 Samuel 7:16: "and thy kingdom shall be established forever before thee: thy throne shall be"
2 Samuel 20:19: "am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city"
1 Kings 8:26: "of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David"
1 Kings 10:7: " Howbeit I believed not the words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen"
1 Kings 11:38: "that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure house, as I built for David,"
2 Kings 10:1: "of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's children, saying,"
2 Kings 10:5: "was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up of the children, sent to Jehu, saying,"
2 Kings 17:14: "of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God."
1 Chronicles 17:23: "thy servant and concerning his house be established forever, and do as"
1 Chronicles 17:24: " Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified forever, saying, The LORD of hosts"
2 Chronicles 1:9: "unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over"
2 Chronicles 6:17: "God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David."
2 Chronicles 9:6: " Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen"
2 Chronicles 20:20: "me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe"
2 Chronicles 20:20: "Believe in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper."
2 Chronicles 20:20: "in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper."
2 Chronicles 32:15: "persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe him: for no god"
Nehemiah 9:8: "his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with"
Nehemiah 13:13: "the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren."
Esther 2:7: " And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter:"
