Strong's #571: 'emeth (pronounced eh'-meth)
contracted from 539; stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness:--assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure, true (-ly, -th), verity.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
'emeth
1) firmness, faithfulness, truth (noun feminine)
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
2) in truth, truly (adverb)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: contracted from H539
Usage:
This word is used 127 times:
Psalms 57:3: "Selah. God shall send forth his mercy and his truth."
Psalms 57:10: "is great unto the heavens, and thy truth unto the clouds."
Psalms 61:7: "forever: O prepare mercy and truth, which may preserve"
Psalms 69:13: "in the multitude of thy mercy hear me, in the truth of thy salvation."
Psalms 71:22: "will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp,"
Psalms 85:10: "Mercy and truth are met together; righteousness and peace have kissed"
Psalms 85:11: " Truth shall spring out of the earth; and righteousness shall look down from heaven."
Psalms 86:11: "me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name."
Psalms 86:15: "longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth."
Psalms 89:14: "are the habitation of thy throne: mercy and truth shall go before thy face."
Psalms 91:4: "and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler."
Psalms 108:4: "is great above the heavens: and thy truth reacheth unto the clouds."
Psalms 111:7: "The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure."
Psalms 111:8: "forever and ever, and are done in truth and uprightness."
Psalms 115:1: "for thy mercy, and for thy truth's"
Psalms 117:2: "his merciful kindness is great toward us: and the truth of the LORD endureth forever. Praise ye the LORD."
Psalms 119:43: "And take not the word of truth utterly out of my mouth;"
Psalms 119:142: "is an everlasting righteousness, and thy law is the truth."
Psalms 119:151: "O LORD; and all thy commandments are truth."
Psalms 119:160: "Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth forever."
Psalms 132:11: "The LORD hath sworn in truth unto David; he will not turn from it; Of the fruit"
Psalms 138:2: "for thy lovingkindness and for thy truth: thou hast magnified thy word above"
Psalms 145:18: "upon him, to all that call upon him in truth."
Psalms 146:6: "and all that therein is: which keepeth truth forever:"
Proverbs 3:3: "Let not mercy and truth forsake thee: bind them about thy neck; write"
Proverbs 8:7: "For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips."
Proverbs 11:18: "work: but to him that soweth righteousness shall be a sure reward."
Proverbs 12:19: "The lip of truth shall be established forever: but a lying tongue is but for a moment."
Proverbs 14:22: "that devise evil? but mercy and truth shall be to them that devise good."
Proverbs 14:25: " A true witness delivereth souls: but a deceitful witness speaketh lies."
Proverbs 16:6: "By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil."
Proverbs 20:28: "Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upheld by mercy."
Proverbs 22:21: "That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send"
Proverbs 22:21: "of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send"
Proverbs 23:23: "Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding."
Proverbs 29:14: "The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, his throne shall be established forever."
Ecclesiastes 12:10: "and that which was written was upright, even words of truth."
Isaiah 10:20: "the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth."
Isaiah 16:5: "be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking"
Isaiah 38:3: "how I have walked before thee in truth and with a perfect and have done that which is good"
Isaiah 38:18: "cannot hope for thy truth."
Isaiah 38:19: "the father to the children shall make known thy truth."
Isaiah 39:8: "moreover, For peace and truth in my days."
Isaiah 42:3: "quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth."
Isaiah 43:9: "that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth."
Isaiah 48:1: "and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness."
Isaiah 59:14: "standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity"
Isaiah 59:15: " Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the LORD"
Isaiah 61:8: "for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, an everlasting covenant"
Jeremiah 2:21: "had planted thee a noble vine, wholly a right seed: how then art thou turned into the degenerate"
