I am interested in knowing how often the word "truth" or "emet appears in the Torah
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that might be hard to answer – Blorkit1 Feb 19 '21 at 18:06
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do you mean all of tanach, or only the חמישי חומשי תורה – Blorkit1 Feb 19 '21 at 18:13
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just the five books – Paul Gordon Feb 19 '21 at 18:15
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For a-m-t in that order, plus any prefixes or suffices, meaning some version of rectitude or truth, I count 10. – rosends Feb 19 '21 at 18:18
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Thank you very much! – Paul Gordon Feb 19 '21 at 18:24
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But not only might there be appearances of the root with infixes, but there are also other words which point to similar concepts. I just don't know if they would "count" because you seemed to limit to "emet." – rosends Feb 19 '21 at 18:29
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I vote to close based on https://judaism.meta.stackexchange.com/q/5272/1739 – robev Feb 20 '21 at 16:43
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I recommend using a concordance. – Harel13 Feb 20 '21 at 21:38
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How many times does אמת appear in the Torah?
11-Times from [Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy]. If this answer is not אמת please let me know.
- Genesis 24:27 [MT]
- Genesis 24:48 [MT]
- Genesis 24:49 [MT]
- Genesis 32:11 [MT]
- Genesis 42:16 [MT]
- Genesis 47:29 [MT]
- Exodus 18:21 [MT]
- Exodus 34:6 [MT]
- Deuteronomy 13:15 [MT]
- Deuteronomy 17:4 [MT]
- Deuteronomy 22:20 [MT]
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1Amito in Gen 24:27 may not be "truth" as much as "faithfulness." The same could be said about other uses of a-m-t, that they don't mean "truth" in a literal sense. – rosends Feb 19 '21 at 18:54
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the english word "truth" appears 3 times in Genesis, 0 times in Exodus, 0 times in Leviticus, 0 times in Numbers, and 0 times in Deuteronomy acording to Sefaria's English translations
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