Bible word study

Emeth (Strong’s H571): Meaning in the Bible

Emeth (אֶמֶת) is the Hebrew word numbered H571 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as stability; (figuratively) certainty, truth, trustworthiness. In the King James Bible it is translated assured(-ly), establishment, faithful, right, sure.

• Original wordאֶמֶת
• Transliterationʼemeth
• Pronunciationeh'-meth
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH571
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. contracted from H539;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Emeth appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Emeth (H571) stands behind 127 English renderings in 125 verses across 23 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (37), Proverbs (12), Isaiah (12).

How the King James Bible renders Emeth, by count

• truth90 of 127 (71 percent)
• true18 of 127 (14 percent)
• truly7 of 127 (6 percent)
• right3 of 127 (2 percent)
• faithfully2 of 127 (2 percent)
• assured1 of 127 (1 percent)

Three places to read Emeth

• Genesis 24:27 And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of my master Abraham, who hath not left destitute my master of his mercy and his truth: I being in the way, the LORD led me to the house of my master’s brethren.
• Psalms 26:3 For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth.
• Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Emeth in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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