H539

• {"n":"Genesis 15:6a","s":"He believed in the LORD. The verb is the root behind amen.","u":"https:\/\/jayms.com\/bible-study-tools-2\/bible-translation-differences\/#id=genesis-15-6a","r":"Genesis 15:6","b":[{"l":"How modern translations read it","t":"All versions read believed. None can show the root, and none shows the verb form."},{"l":"First, in plain English","t":"**He trusted the bridge.** **He believed the story.** English believe drifts toward agreeing with a claim. The older sense is closer to leaning your weight on something, and you can still hear it in **the ice held**."},{"l":"What you are seeing","t":"He'emin is the hiphil of aman, a root meaning to be firm, reliable, to support. The noun from it is emunah, faithfulness, and the word you say at the end of a prayer is the same root. The verb is closer to he found God reliable and rested on Him than to he accepted a proposition."},{"l":"Why translators split","t":"English believe has moved toward mental assent. There is no English verb meaning to treat as load-bearing, so the root sense has to be explained rather than translated."},{"l":"The rule to carry away","t":"When a verse is the foundation of a doctrine, look up the root of its main verb. Doctrinal vocabulary drifts faster than ordinary vocabulary, because it gets used more."},{"l":"Choosing between them","t":"No dispute in the rendering. The dispute, where there is one, is about how much the root sense should shape the doctrine built on the verse."},{"l":"The word","t":"\u05d0\u05b8\u05de\u05b7\u05df aman \u00b7 H539"}],"src":["Same root as emunah, faithfulness: Habakkuk 2:4","Same root as amen: Deuteronomy 27:15-26","Romans 4:3 and Galatians 3:6 quote the Septuagint of this verse"]}