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Strong's H539 אָמַן (aman)

Aman means “believe” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G539 — apate (“delusion”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H539
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 102
Books 24

Strong's H539 Quick Answer

Strong's H539 אָמַן (aman) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. aman (aw-man') v. 1. (properly) to build up or support 2. to foster as a parent or nurse It has 102 linked Bible usages across 24 books. Visible English usage signals include faithful, believe, trust, believed, and trusted. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
aman (aw-man') v. 1. (properly) to build up or support 2. to foster as a parent or nurse
Usage
102 linked usages
Books
24 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
faithful, believe, trust, believed, and trusted

THF Study Note: Believe / confirm

H539 belongs near faith and faithfulness studies because it can describe believing, confirming, supporting, or being established. It helps readers connect Old Testament trust language with later faith vocabulary.

Study Angles

  • Compare H539 with Greek G4102 and G4100 when tracing faith language across testaments.
  • Look for whether the passage emphasizes trust, reliability, confirmation, or support.
  • Read the occurrence in context before converting it into a single doctrinal term.

Meaning and Definition

aman (aw-man') v. 1. (properly) to build up or support 2. to foster as a parent or nurse 3. figuratively to render (or be) firm or faithful, to trust or believe, to be permanent or quiet 4. morally to be true or certain 5. once (Isa. 30 6. interchangeable with H0541) to go to the right hand [a primitive root] KJV: 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. See also: H541

Original Word
אָמַן
Transliteration
aman
Derivation
Root: אמן
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H539. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

be faithful

Usage: 1) to support, confirm, be faithful 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to support, confirm, be faithful, uphold, nourish 1a1a) foster-father (subst.) 1a1b) foster-mother, nurse 1a1c) pillars, supporters of the door 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be established, be faithful, be carried, make firm 1b1a) to be carried by a nurse 1b1b) made firm, sure, lasting 1b1c) confirmed, established, sure 1b1d) verified, confirmed 1b1e) reliable, faithful, trusty 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to stand firm, to trust, to be certain, to believe in 1c1a) stand firm 1c1b)

trust, believe Aramaic equivalent: a.man (אֲמַן "to trust" H0540)

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How Strong's H539 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render aman, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

faithful Numbers 12:7 19× believe Exodus 4:1 17× trust Job 4:18 believed Genesis 15:6 build 1 Samuel 2:35 nurse Ruth 4:16 trusted Judges 11:20 they Genesis 42:20

How Strong's H539 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 102 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H539 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H539 in the Old Testament

102 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 15:6 KJV

And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Genesis 42:20 KJV

But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

Genesis 45:26 KJV

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 them not.

Usage Excerpts

First 102 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H539.

Genesis 15:6 Old Testament, KJV
And he believed in the LORD; and he counted it to him for righteousness.
Genesis 42:20 Old Testament, KJV
But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.
Genesis 45:26 Old Testament, KJV
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 them not.
Exodus 4:1 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses answered and said, But, behold, they will not believe me, nor hearken unto my voice: for they will say, The LORD hath not appeared unto thee.
Exodus 4:5 Old Testament, KJV
That they may believe 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 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe thee, neither hearken to the voice of the first sign, that they will believe the voice of the latter sign.
Exodus 4:9 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, if they will not believe 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 Old Testament, KJV
And the people believed: 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 Old Testament, KJV
And Israel saw that great work which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: and the people feared the LORD, and believed the LORD, and his servant Moses.
Exodus 19:9 Old Testament, KJV
And 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 thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD.
Numbers 11:12 Old Testament, KJV
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 beareth the sucking child, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Numbers 12:7 Old Testament, KJV
My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.
Numbers 14:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto Moses, How long will this people provoke me? and how long will it be ere they believe me, for all the signs which I have shewed among them?
Numbers 20:12 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed 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.
Deuteronomy 1:32 Old Testament, KJV
Yet in this thing ye did not believe the LORD your God,
Deuteronomy 7:9 Old Testament, KJV
Know therefore that the LORD thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;
Deuteronomy 9:23 Old Testament, KJV
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 him not, nor hearkened to his voice.
Deuteronomy 28:59 Old Testament, KJV
Then the LORD will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.
Deuteronomy 28:66 Old Testament, KJV
And thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear day and night, and shalt have none assurance of thy life:
Judges 11:20 Old Testament, KJV
But Sihon trusted 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 Old Testament, KJV
And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.
1 Samuel 2:35 Old Testament, KJV
And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.
1 Samuel 3:20 Old Testament, KJV
And all Israel from Dan even to Beersheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of the LORD.
1 Samuel 22:14 Old Testament, KJV
Then Ahimelech answered the king, and said, And who is so faithful 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?
1 Samuel 25:28 Old Testament, KJV
I pray thee, forgive the trespass of thine handmaid: for the LORD will certainly make my lord a sure house; because my lord fighteth the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days.
1 Samuel 27:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.
2 Samuel 4:4 Old Testament, KJV
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 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.
2 Samuel 7:16 Old Testament, KJV
And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
2 Samuel 20:19 Old Testament, KJV
I am one of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of the LORD?
1 Kings 8:26 Old Testament, KJV
And now, O God of Israel, let thy word, I pray thee, be verified, which thou spakest unto thy servant David my father.
1 Kings 10:7 Old Testament, KJV
Howbeit I believed 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.
1 Kings 11:38 Old Testament, KJV
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 house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.
2 Kings 10:1 Old Testament, KJV
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 Ahab's children, saying,
2 Kings 10:5 Old Testament, KJV
And he that was over the house, and he that was over the city, the elders also, and the bringers up 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.
2 Kings 17:14 Old Testament, KJV
Notwithstanding they would not hear, but hardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the LORD their God.
1 Chronicles 17:23 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore now, LORD, let the thing that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house be established for ever, and do as thou hast said.
1 Chronicles 17:24 Old Testament, KJV
Let it even be established, 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.
2 Chronicles 1:9 Old Testament, KJV
Now, O LORD God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.
2 Chronicles 6:17 Old Testament, KJV
Now then, O LORD God of Israel, let thy word be verified, which thou hast spoken unto thy servant David.
2 Chronicles 9:6 Old Testament, KJV
Howbeit I believed 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.
2 Chronicles 20:20 Old Testament, KJV
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 in the LORD your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.
2 Chronicles 32:15 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore let not Hezekiah deceive you, nor persuade you on this manner, neither yet believe 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?
Nehemiah 9:8 Old Testament, KJV
And foundest his heart faithful 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:
Nehemiah 13:13 Old Testament, KJV
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, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.
Esther 2:7 Old Testament, KJV
And he brought up 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 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, he put no trust in his servants; and his angels he charged with folly:
Job 9:16 Old Testament, KJV
If I had called, and he had answered me; yet would I not believe that he had hearkened unto my voice.
Job 12:20 Old Testament, KJV
He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.
Job 15:15 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight.
Job 15:22 Old Testament, KJV
He believeth not that he shall return out of darkness, and he is waited for of the sword.
Job 15:31 Old Testament, KJV
Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.
Job 24:22 Old Testament, KJV
He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.
Job 29:24 Old Testament, KJV
If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.
Job 39:12 Old Testament, KJV
Wilt thou believe him, that he will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
Job 39:24 Old Testament, KJV
He swalloweth the ground with fierceness and rage: neither believeth he that it is the sound of the trumpet.
Psalms 12:1 Old Testament, KJV
Help, LORD; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.
Psalms 19:7 Old Testament, KJV
The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
Psalms 27:13 Old Testament, KJV
I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Psalms 31:23 Old Testament, KJV
O love the LORD, all ye his saints: for the LORD preserveth the faithful, and plentifully rewardeth the proud doer.
Psalms 78:8 Old Testament, KJV
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 with God.
Psalms 78:22 Old Testament, KJV
Because they believed not in God, and trusted not in his salvation:
Psalms 78:32 Old Testament, KJV
For all this they sinned still, and believed not for his wondrous works.
Psalms 78:37 Old Testament, KJV
For their heart was not right with him, neither were they stedfast in his covenant.
Psalms 89:28 Old Testament, KJV
My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.
Psalms 89:37 Old Testament, KJV
It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
Psalms 93:5 Old Testament, KJV
Thy testimonies are very sure: holiness becometh thine house, O LORD, for ever.
Psalms 101:6 Old Testament, KJV
Mine eyes shall be upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walketh in a perfect way, he shall serve me.
Psalms 106:12 Old Testament, KJV
Then believed they his words; they sang his praise.
Psalms 106:24 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, they despised the pleasant land, they believed not his word:
Psalms 111:7 Old Testament, KJV
The works of his hands are verity and judgment; all his commandments are sure.
Psalms 116:10 Old Testament, KJV
I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:
Psalms 119:66 Old Testament, KJV
Teach me good judgment and knowledge: for I have believed thy commandments.
Proverbs 11:13 Old Testament, KJV
A talebearer revealeth secrets: but he that is of a faithful spirit concealeth the matter.
Proverbs 14:15 Old Testament, KJV
The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.
Proverbs 25:13 Old Testament, KJV
As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.
Proverbs 26:25 Old Testament, KJV
When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.
Proverbs 27:6 Old Testament, KJV
Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Isaiah 1:21 Old Testament, KJV
How is the faithful city become an harlot! it was full of judgment; righteousness lodged in it; but now murderers.
Isaiah 1:26 Old Testament, KJV
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 city.
Isaiah 7:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the head of Ephraim is Samaria, and the head of Samaria is Remaliah's son. If ye will not believe, surely ye shall not be established.
Isaiah 8:2 Old Testament, KJV
And I took unto me faithful witnesses to record, Uriah the priest, and Zechariah the son of Jeberechiah.
Isaiah 22:23 Old Testament, KJV
And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house.
Isaiah 22:25 Old Testament, KJV
In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure 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.
Isaiah 28:16 Old Testament, KJV
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 shall not make haste.
Isaiah 33:16 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Isaiah 43:10 Old Testament, KJV
Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me.
Isaiah 49:7 Old Testament, KJV
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, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.
Isaiah 49:23 Old Testament, KJV
And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, 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.
Isaiah 53:1 Old Testament, KJV
Who hath believed our report? and to whom is the arm of the LORD revealed?
Isaiah 55:3 Old Testament, KJV
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 mercies of David.
Isaiah 60:4 Old Testament, KJV
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 at thy side.
Jeremiah 12:6 Old Testament, KJV
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 them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.
Jeremiah 15:18 Old Testament, KJV
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?
Jeremiah 40:14 Old Testament, KJV
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 them not.
Jeremiah 42:5 Old Testament, KJV
Then they said to Jeremiah, The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for the which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.
Lamentations 4:5 Old Testament, KJV
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.
Lamentations 4:12 Old Testament, KJV
The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
Hosea 5:9 Old Testament, KJV
Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel have I made known that which shall surely be.
Hosea 11:12 Old Testament, KJV
Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit: but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints.
Jonah 3:5 Old Testament, KJV
So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
Micah 7:5 Old Testament, KJV
Trust 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.
Habakkuk 1:5 Old Testament, KJV
Behold ye among the heathen, and regard, and wonder marvelously: for I will work a work in your days which ye will not believe, though it be told you.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H539, grouped by book.

Genesis 3 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 7 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 4 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 5 usages, Old Testament
Judges 1 usage, Old Testament
Ruth 1 usage, Old Testament
1 Samuel 5 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 3 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 5 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Esther 1 usage, Old Testament
Job 10 usages, Old Testament
Psalms 17 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 5 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 14 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 4 usages, Old Testament
Lamentations 2 usages, Old Testament
Hosea 2 usages, Old Testament
Jonah 1 usage, Old Testament
Micah 1 usage, Old Testament
Habakkuk 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H539 FAQ

What does aman (אָמַן) mean?

Aman (Strong's H539) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "believe". aman (aw-man') v. 1. (properly) to build up or support 2. to foster as a parent or nurse

How many times is aman (אָמַן) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 102 linked usages for Strong's H539 across 24 books.

Where can I study aman (אָמַן) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H539 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate aman (אָמַן)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as faithful, believe, trust, believed, trusted, and nurse. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.