To trust, to lean one's weight on — the root behind 'amen.' 'Abram believed Jehovah, and he counted it to him as righteousness' (15:6), the verse Paul and James both build on. ⚠ The passive participle ne'eman is what God calls Moses at Numbers 12:7 (already on these pages) — 'in all my house he is TRUSTED' — and the passive is the point: it is a fact about how God treats him, not a virtue he displays. KJV and ASV read 'faithful', which quietly turns it active; NWT keeps the passive with 'He is being entrusted with all my house.' The verse is quoted twice in Hebrews 3 (not yet on these pages). ⚠ One chapter after God calls Moses ne'eman, Numbers 14:11 asks 'how long will they not ya'aminu in me?' — the same root negated, of the same people who DID believe at the sea (Exodus 14:31, already on these pages). And Habakkuk 2:4 sets the noun emunah against upplah, the swollen soul — which is the verb of Numbers 14:44, so both halves of that chapter's failure are named by the two roots Habakkuk opposes. ⚠ Deuteronomy 7:9 calls Jehovah the faithful God, ha-El ha-ne'eman, and 28:59 (both now on these pages) gives the same participle to his plagues, great and lasting plagues — ne'emanot, faithful, what can be relied on to stay; and 28:66 uses the verb of a man who will not be sure of his own life. → first discussed at Gen 15:6