Theme: FAITHWord: 'amanMeaning:(aw-man')
Hebrew verb
Strongs number 0539
Number of verses: 102
1) to support, confirm, be faithful
a) (Qal)
b) (Niphal)1) to support, confirm, be faithful, uphold, nourish
a) foster-father (subst.)
b) foster-mother, nurse
c) pillars, supporters of the door
c) (Hiphil)1) to be established, be faithful, be carried, make firm
a) to be carried by a nurse
b) made firm, sure, lasting
c) confirmed, established, sure
d) verified, confirmed
e) reliable, faithful, trusty
1) to stand firm, to trust, to be certain, to believe in
a) stand firm
b) trust, believe
Gen 15:6 And he believed ('aman) in the LORD ; and he counted it to him for righteousness .
Gen 42:20 But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified ('aman) , and ye shall not die . And they did so.
Gen 45:26 And told him, saying , Joseph [is] yet alive , and he [is] governor over all the land of Egypt . And Jacob's heart fainted , for he believed ('aman) them not.
Exodus 4:1 nd Moses answered and said , But, behold, they will not believe ('aman) me, nor hearken unto my voice : for they will say , The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
Exodus 4:5 hat they may believe ('aman) that the LORD God of their fathers , the God of Abraham , the God of Isaac , and the God of Jacob , hath appeared unto thee.
Exodus 4:8 nd it shall come to pass, if they will not believe ('aman) thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign , that they will believe ('aman) the voice of the latter sign .
Exodus 4:9 nd it shall come to pass, if they will not believe ('aman) also these two signs , neither hearken unto thy voice , that thou shalt take of the water of the river , and pour [it] upon the dry [land]: and the water which thou takest out of the river shall become blood upon the dry [land].
Exodus 4:31 nd the people believed ('aman) : and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel , and that he had looked upon their affliction , then they bowed their heads and worshipped .
Exodus 14:31 nd Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians : and the people feared the LORD , and believed ('aman) the LORD , and his servant Moses .
Exodus 19:9 nd the LORD said unto Moses , Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud , that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe ('aman) thee for ever . And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD .
Num 11:12 Have I conceived all this people ? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, Carry them in thy bosom , as a nursing father ('aman) beareth the sucking child , unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers ?
Num 12:7 My servant Moses [is] not so, who [is] faithful ('aman) in all mine house .
Num 14:11 And the LORD said unto Moses , How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe ('aman) me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
Num 20:12 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron , Because ye believed ('aman) me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel , therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.
Deu 1:32 Yet in this thing ye did not believe ('aman) the LORD your God ,
Deu 7:9 Know therefore that the LORD thy God , he [is] God , the faithful ('aman) God , which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations ;
Deu 9:23 Likewise when the LORD sent you from Kadeshbarnea , saying , Go up and possess the land which I have given you; then ye rebelled against the commandment of the LORD your God , and ye believed ('aman) him not, nor hearkened to his voice .
Deu 28:59 Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful , and the plagues of thy seed , [even] great plagues , and of long continuance ('aman) , and sore sicknesses , and of long continuance ('aman) .
Deu 28:66 And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night , and shalt have none assurance ('aman) of thy life :
Judges 11:20 ut Sihon trusted ('aman) not Israel to pass through his coast : but Sihon gathered all his people together , and pitched in Jahaz , and fought against Israel .
Ruth 4:16 And Naomi took the child , and laid it in her bosom , and became nurse ('aman) unto it.
1Sa 2:35 And I will raise me up a faithful ('aman) priest , [that] shall do according to [that] which [is] in mine heart and in my mind : and I will build him a sure ('aman) house ; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever .
1Sa 3:20 And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel [was] established ('aman) [to be] a prophet of the LORD .
1Sa 22:14 Then Ahimelech answered the king , and said , And who [is so] faithful ('aman) among all thy servants as David , which is the king's son in law , and goeth at thy bidding , and is honourable in thine house ?
1Sa 25:28 I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid : for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure ('aman) house ; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD , and evil hath not been found in thee [all] thy days .
1Sa 27:12 And Achish believed ('aman) David , saying , He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever .
2Sa 4:4 And Jonathan , Saul's son , had a son [that was] lame of [his] feet . He was five years old when the tidings came of Saul and Jonathan out of Jezreel , and his nurse ('aman) took him up , and fled : and it came to pass, as she made haste to flee , that he fell , and became lame . And his name [was] Mephibosheth .
2Sa 7:16 And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established ('aman) for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever .
2Sa 20:19 I [am one of them that are] peaceable [and] faithful ('aman) in Israel : thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel : why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD ?
1Ki 8:26 And now, O God of Israel , let thy word , I pray thee, be verified ('aman) , which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father .
1Ki 10:7 Howbeit I believed ('aman) not the words , until I came , and mine eyes had seen [it]: and, behold, the half was not told me: thy wisdom and prosperity exceedeth the fame which I heard .
1Ki 11:38 And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways , and do [that is] right in my sight , to keep my statutes and my commandments , as David my servant did ; that I will be with thee, and build thee a sure ('aman) house , as I built for David , and will give Israel unto thee.
2Ki 10:1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria . And Jehu wrote letters , and sent to Samaria , unto the rulers of Jezreel , to the elders , and to them that brought up ('aman) Ahab's [children], saying ,
2Ki 10:5 And he that [was] over the house , and he that [was] over the city , the elders also, and the bringers up ('aman) [of the children], sent to Jehu , saying , We [are] thy servants , and will do all that thou shalt bid us; we will not make any king : do thou [that which is] good in thine eyes .
2Ki 17:14 Notwithstanding they would not hear , but hardened their necks , like to the neck of their fathers , that did not believe ('aman) in the LORD their God .
1Ch 17:23 Therefore now, LORD , let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established ('aman) for ever , and do as thou hast said .
1Ch 17:24 Let it even be established ('aman) , that thy name may be magnified for ever , saying , The LORD of hosts [is] the God of Israel , [even] a God to Israel : and [let] the house of David thy servant [be] established before thee.
2Ch 1:9 Now, O LORD God , let thy promise unto David my father be established ('aman) : for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude .
2Ch 6:17 Now then, O LORD God of Israel , let thy word be verified ('aman) , which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David .
2Ch 9:6 Howbeit I believed ('aman) not their words , until I came , and mine eyes had seen [it]: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: [for] thou exceedest the fame that I heard .
2Ch 20:20 And they rose early in the morning , and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa : and as they went forth , Jehoshaphat stood and said , Hear me, O Judah , and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem ; Believe ('aman) in the LORD your God , so shall ye be established ('aman) ; believe ('aman) his prophets , so shall ye prosper .
2Ch 32:15 Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe ('aman) him: for no god of any nation or kingdom was able to deliver his people out of mine hand , and out of the hand of my fathers : how much less shall your God deliver you out of mine hand ?
Neh 9:8 And foundest his heart faithful ('aman) before thee, and madest a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites , the Hittites , the Amorites , and the Perizzites , and the Jebusites , and the Girgashites , to give [it, I say], to his seed , and hast performed thy words ; for thou [art] righteous :
Neh 13:13 And I made treasurers over the treasuries , Shelemiah the priest , and Zadok the scribe , and of the Levites , Pedaiah : and next to them [was] Hanan the son of Zaccur , the son of Mattaniah : for they were counted faithful ('aman) , and their office [was] to distribute unto their brethren .
Est 2:7 And he brought up ('aman) Hadassah , that [is], Esther , his uncle's daughter : for she had neither father nor mother , and the maid [was] fair and beautiful ; whom Mordecai , when her father and mother were dead , took for his own daughter .
Job 4:18 Behold, he put no trust ('aman) in his servants ; and his angels he charged with folly :
Job 9:16 If I had called , and he had answered me; [yet] would I not believe ('aman) that he had hearkened unto my voice .
Job 12:20 He removeth away the speech of the trusty ('aman) , and taketh away the understanding of the aged .
Job 15:15 Behold, he putteth no trust ('aman) in his saints ; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight .
Job 15:22 He believeth ('aman) not that he shall return out of darkness , and he is waited for of the sword .
Job 15:31 Let not him that is deceived trust ('aman) in vanity : for vanity shall be his recompence .
Job 24:22 He draweth also the mighty with his power : he riseth up , and no [man] is sure ('aman) of life .
Job 29:24 [If] I laughed on them, they believed ('aman) [it] not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down .
Job 39:12 Wilt thou believe ('aman) him, that he will bring home thy seed , and gather [it into] thy barn ?
Job 39:24 He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage : neither believeth ('aman) he that [it is] the sound of the trumpet .
Psa 12:1 [[To the chief Musician upon Sheminith , A Psalm of David .]] Help , LORD ; for the godly man ceaseth ; for the faithful ('aman) fail from among the children of men .
Psa 19:7 The law of the LORD [is] perfect , converting the soul : the testimony of the LORD [is] sure ('aman) , making wise the simple .
Psa 27:13 [I had fainted], unless I had believed ('aman) to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living .
Psa 31:23 O love the LORD , all ye his saints : [for] the LORD preserveth the faithful ('aman) , and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer .
Psa 78:8 And might not be as their fathers , a stubborn and rebellious generation ; a generation [that] set not their heart aright , and whose spirit was not stedfast ('aman) with God .
Psa 78:22 Because they believed ('aman) not in God , and trusted not in his salvation :
Psa 78:32 For all this they sinned still, and believed ('aman) not for his wondrous works .
Psa 78:37 For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast ('aman) in his covenant .
Psa 89:28 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore , and my covenant shall stand fast ('aman) with him.
Psa 89:37 It shall be established for ever as the moon , and [as] a faithful ('aman) witness in heaven . Selah .
Psa 93:5 Thy testimonies are very sure ('aman) : holiness becometh thine house , O LORD , for ever .
Psa 101:6 Mine eyes [shall be] upon the faithful ('aman) of the land , that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way , he shall serve me.
Psa 106:12 Then believed ('aman) they his words ; they sang his praise .
Psa 106:24 Yea, they despised the pleasant land , they believed ('aman) not his word :
Psa 111:7 The works of his hands [are] verity and judgment ; all his commandments [are] sure ('aman) .
Psa 116:10 I believed ('aman) , therefore have I spoken : I was greatly afflicted :
Psa 119:66 Teach me good judgment and knowledge : for I have believed ('aman) thy commandments .
Pro 11:13 A talebearer revealeth secrets : but he that is of a faithful ('aman) spirit concealeth the matter .
Pro 14:15 The simple believeth ('aman) every word : but the prudent [man] looketh well to his going .
Pro 25:13 As the cold of snow in the time of harvest , [so is] a faithful ('aman) messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters .
Pro 26:25 When he speaketh fair , believe ('aman) him not: for [there are] seven abominations in his heart .
Pro 27:6 Faithful ('aman) [are] the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses ('aman)0 of an enemy [are] deceitful .
Isa 1:21 How is the faithful ('aman) city become an harlot ! it was full of judgment ; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers .
Isa 1:26 And I will restore thy judges as at the first , and thy counsellors as at the beginning : afterward thou shalt be called , The city of righteousness , the faithful ('aman) city .
Isa 7:9 And the head of Ephraim [is] Samaria , and the head of Samaria [is] Remaliah's son . If ye will not believe ('aman) , surely ye shall not be established ('aman) .
Isa 8:2 And I took unto me faithful ('aman) witnesses to record , Uriah the priest , and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah .
Isa 22:23 And I will fasten him [as] a nail in a sure ('aman) place ; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house .
Isa 22:25 In that day , saith the LORD of hosts , shall the nail that is fastened in the sure ('aman) place be removed , and be cut down , and fall ; and the burden that [was] upon it shall be cut off : for the LORD hath spoken [it].
Isa 28:16 Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD , Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone , a tried stone , a precious corner [stone], a sure foundation : he that believeth ('aman) shall not make haste .
Isa 33:16 He shall dwell on high : his place of defence [shall be] the munitions of rocks : bread shall be given him; his waters [shall be] sure ('aman) .
Isa 43:10 Ye [are] my witnesses , saith the LORD , and my servant whom I have chosen : that ye may know and believe ('aman) me, and understand that I [am] he: before me there was no God formed , neither shall there be after me.
Isa 49:7 Thus saith the LORD , the Redeemer of Israel , [and] his Holy One , to him whom man despiseth , to him whom the nation abhorreth , to a servant of rulers , Kings shall see and arise , princes also shall worship , because of the LORD that is faithful ('aman) , [and] the Holy One of Israel , and he shall choose thee.
Isa 49:23 And kings shall be thy nursing fathers ('aman) , and their queens thy nursing mothers : they shall bow down to thee with [their] face toward the earth , and lick up the dust of thy feet ; and thou shalt know that I [am] the LORD : for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
Isa 53:1 Who hath believed ('aman) our report ? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed ?
Isa 55:3 Incline your ear , and come unto me: hear , and your soul shall live ; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, [even] the sure ('aman) mercies of David .
Isa 60:4 Lift up thine eyes round about , and see : all they gather themselves together , they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far , and thy daughters shall be nursed ('aman) at [thy] side .
Jer 12:6 For even thy brethren , and the house of thy father , even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe ('aman) them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
Jer 15:18 Why is my pain perpetual , and my wound incurable , [which] refuseth to be healed ? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar , [and as] waters [that] fail ('aman) ?
Jer 40:14 And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed ('aman) them not.
Jer 42:5 Then they said to Jeremiah , The LORD be a true and faithful ('aman) witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
Lam 4:5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets : they that were brought up ('aman) in scarlet embrace dunghills .
Lam 4:12 The kings of the earth , and all the inhabitants of the world , would not have believed ('aman) that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem .
Hosea 5:9 Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke : among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be ('aman) .
Hosea 11:12 Ephraim compasseth me about with lies , and the house of Israel with deceit : but Judah yet ruleth with God , and is faithful ('aman) with the saints .
Jon 3:5 So the people of Nineveh believed ('aman) God , and proclaimed a fast , and put on sackcloth , from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Mic 7:5 Trust ('aman) ye not in a friend , put ye not confidence in a guide : keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom .
Hab 1:5 Behold ye among the heathen , and regard , and wonder marvellously : for [I] will work a work in your days , [which] ye will not believe ('aman) , though it be told [you].
Prepared by William C. Barman for George Young Memorial United Methodist Church -- Palm Harbor, FL on 9/22/03; 10:33:35 AM