Hebrew and Greek words used in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures
Hebrew: emun
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Hebrew - emun
Strong's - Hebrew 529 (derived from Hebrew 539, aman; see also Hebrew 530; Hebrew 571; Greek 4100; Greek 4102)
KJV - faith, faithful, truth
NRSV - faithfulness, faithful, worthy of trust (trustworthy), faith
BDB (page 53) - trusting, faithfulness
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S&H references
S&H 23:21-3 In Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and English, faith and the words corresponding thereto have these two definitions, trustfulness and trustworthiness. One kind of faith trusts one's welfare to others. Another kind of faith understands divine Love and how to work out one's "own salvation, with fear and trembling." "Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief!" expresses the helplessness of a blind faith; whereas the injunction, "Believe . . . and thou shalt be saved!" demands self-reliant trustworthiness, which includes spiritual understanding and confides all to God. The Hebrew verb to believe means also to be firm or to be constant. This certainly applies to Truth and Love understood and practised. Firmness in error will never save from sin, disease, and death.
Deu 32:20 And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
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1996-2002 Robert Nguyen Cramer
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