Definition

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;

Etymology

a primitive root; (Isaiah 30:21; interchangeable with H541 (אָמַן), to go to the right hand)

Where the KJV renders it

• 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

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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