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:
Jeremiah 4:2: "And thou shalt swear, The LORD liveth, in truth, in judgment, and in righteousness; and the nations shall bless themselves"
Jeremiah 9:5: "his neighbor, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies,"
Jeremiah 10:10: "But the LORD is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king:"
Jeremiah 14:13: "famine; but I will give you assured peace in this place."
Jeremiah 23:28: "and he that hath my word, let him speak my word faithfully. What"
Jeremiah 26:15: "this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the LORD hath sent"
Jeremiah 28:9: "be known, that the LORD hath truly sent"
Jeremiah 32:41: "them to do them good, and I will plant them in this land assuredly with my whole heart and with my whole"
Jeremiah 33:6: "them, and will reveal unto them the abundance of peace and truth."
Jeremiah 42:5: "Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do"
Ezekiel 18:8: "his hand from iniquity, hath executed true between man"
Ezekiel 18:9: "and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live,"
Daniel 8:12: "the daily sacrifice by reason of transgression, and it cast down the truth to the ground; and it practiced, and prospered."
Daniel 8:26: "and the morning which was told is true: wherefore shut thou up the vision; for"
Daniel 9:13: "our God, that we might turn from our iniquities, and understand thy truth."
Daniel 10:1: "was called and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood"
Daniel 10:21: "thee that which is noted in the Scripture of truth: and there is none that holdeth with"
Daniel 11:2: "And now will I show thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings"
Hosea 4:1: "of the land, there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge"
Micah 7:20: "Thou wilt perform the truth to Jacob, and the mercy to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers"
Zechariah 7:9: "of hosts, saying, Execute true judgment, and show mercy and compassions"
Zechariah 8:3: "and Jerusalem shall be called of truth; and the mountain of the LORD of hosts the holy"
Zechariah 8:8: "and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness."
Zechariah 8:16: "ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbor; execute the judgment"
Zechariah 8:16: "his neighbor; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:"
Zechariah 8:19: "and cheerful feasts; therefore love the truth and peace."
Malachi 2:6: "The law of truth was in his mouth, and iniquity was not found in his lips:"
