The noun form of the word for faith is pronounced “emunah” and is spelled Aleph-Mem-Waw-Nun-Hey. Emunah derives from the three letter root Aleph-Mem-Nun. There are different spellings depending on the part-of-speech: Here are the transliterations:
Aman (verb) – to confirm, support, uphold, be certain. Omen (noun) – faithfulness Amen (adv) – verily, truly, you betcha, you damn right Amman (noun) – a steady hand, an artist Emunah (noun) – firmness, fidelity, steadiness … and quite a few others. In the Hebrew scriptures the idea of faith connotes ‘certainty’, rather like our faith that the sun will rise tomorrow in the East. Another way to think of this idea of ‘certainty’ as ‘faith’, is to understand that in the Biblical Hebrew, hope and faith were opposites and the former was not considered a virtue when applied to God’s workings. In Biblical times, hope dwells where faith does not exist. One final note: In its adverb form, Aleph-Mem-Nun (‘amen’) means truly, certainly. While we say ‘amen’ to conclude prayer, think of it this way: When someone says “Hank Aaron was the greatest baseplayer who ever lived”, you might reply “You damn right!!!!!” When the Jews of Jesus’s day said “amen”, they were exclaiming “you damn right”. Shalom, Michael _____ From: ancient_hebrew@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ancient_heb...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of nutmegan30 Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 11:57 PM To: ancient_hebrew@yahoogroups.com Subject: [ancient_hebrew] The Hebrew word "Faith" Can you please show me in Hebrew the word FAITH. I kow it is different from the Western word FAITH. But I'm having conflicting spellings for the word in Hebrew...what is the proper Hebrew spelling or is there more than one?
