“believing” applied in regard to one’s acceptance of the existence of the gods.27 In the OT, however, “faith is always man’s reaction to God’s primary action.”28 The assortment of Hebrew words expressing the concept of faith and believing is complex. At least five verbs can denote the idea.29 Among them, it is the Hiphil of אָמַן “for which alone the LXX uses the stem πίστις and derivatives.”30 As a result, a closer look at that word group is most pertinent. The nouns אֱמוּנָה and אֶמֶת can describe
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