Open English Translation (OET)

Hebrew wordlink #244710

OSHB Psa 12:2 אֱמוּנִים (ʼₑmūnīm) Strongs=539 Lemma=‘אֱמוּן’
contextual word gloss=‘faithful_[people]’ word gloss=‘faithful’
Morphology=Aampa PoS=adjective Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute

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Other uses (1) of identical word form אֱמוּנִים (Morphology=Aampa PoS=adjective Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute) in the Hebrew originals

The word form ‘אֱמוּנִים’ (Morphology=Aampa PoS=adjective Gender=masculine Number=plural State=absolute) is always and only glossed as ‘faithful_[people]’.

PSA 12:2 contextual word gloss=‘faithful_[people]’ word gloss=‘faithful’ OSHB PSA 12:2 word 8

OET-LV: 2  save Oh_YHWH if/because he _has _come _to _an _end the_faithful if/because they _have _vanished faithful_people from_(the)_sons humankind. (PSA 12:2)

Combined passage: org PSA 12:1–2 (native PSA 12:0–1; verse text cannot be split).

OET-RV: (PSA 12:0)

OET-RV: For the musical director: a song by David to be played on the eight-stringed instrument.
⇔  1 Help, Yahweh, because faithful people seem to have disappeared.
⇔ ≈ Those who have integrity have vanished from among humanity. (PSA 12:1)

PSA 31:24 contextual word gloss=‘faithful_[people]’ word gloss=‘faithful’ OSHB PSA 31:24 word 6

OET-LV: 24  love DOM YHWH Oh _all _of his _faithful _of_people faithful_people YHWH is_preserving and_he_is_repaying on excess one _who_does _of (of)_pride. (PSA 31:24)

OET-RV: 23 Love Yahweh, all you godly people.
⇔ Yahweh protects faithful people,
⇔ but he pays back the arrogant in full. (PSA 31:23)

The various word forms of the root word (lemma) ‘Lemma=‘אֱמוּן’’ have 2 different glosses: ‘faithful_[people]’, ‘faithfulness(es)’.