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:
Jeremiah 42:5: "The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not"
Lamentations 4:5: "delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills."
Lamentations 4:12: "the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered"
Hosea 5:9: "among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be."
Hosea 11:12: "ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints."
Jonah 3:5: "of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth,"
Micah 7:5: " Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors"
Habakkuk 1:5: "I will work a work in your days, which ye will not believe, though it be told"
