Sunday, November 20, 2011

Faith and Love in the Old Testament

The word "FAITH" occurs first in Deuteronomy ch. 32 IN THE NEGATIVE "because of your FAITH-LESSNESS" and the only other occurrence is the famous Habbakuk which is CORRECTLY translated in the Septuagint to say "because of GOD'S faithfulness" but is mistranslated in KJV as the faith of the person saved.  The first occurrence of the word LOVE in the Old Testament is Isaac's love for the tasty game flesh which Esau hunted and prepared. SO if love and faith are SO important then why are they hardly mentioned? And the word in Hebrew for "faith", emunah, means "faithfulness to a covenantal agreement or bargain" rather than faith "pistis" in the sense of Apostle Paul in Hebrews 11:1-40

1) Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen.

http://concordances.org/hebrew/530.htm

emunah: firmness, steadfastness, fidelity
Original Word: אֱמוּנָה,
Transliteration: emunah
Phonetic Spelling: (em-oo-naw')
Short Definition: faithfulness

Word Origin
from aman
Definition
firmness, steadfastness, fidelity
NASB Word Usage
faith (1), faithful (3), faithfully (8), faithfulness (25), honestly (1), responsibility (1), stability (1), steady (1), trust (2), truth (5).
NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries
Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation
All rights reserved Lockman.org

faithful set office, stability, steady, truly, truth, verily

 or (shortened) >emunah {em-oo-naw'} feminine of 'emuwn; literally firmness; figuratively security; morally fidelity -- faith(-ful, -ly, -ness, (man)), set office, stability, steady, truly, truth, verily.

Comments: Post a Comment



<< Home

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?