Abstrakt: | The aim of this article is an attempt to explain how the concepts of truth, true,
truly are understood in the Hebrew Bible. The definitions of these concepts are
constructed through careful analysis of the meaning of 23 Hebrew terms which
are used in a given Hebrew Bible verse as their opposition. To ensure we do not
go beyond the limits of Biblical understanding of these oppositions, their meaning
was taken solely from the context of their usages in the Hebrew Bible. Having
constructed the meanings of those terms in a such way, the concepts of
truth, true, truly were defined as their opposition. The methodological approach
which lays behind this construction is that the idea of truth could be established
by negation of the idea of false.
In the last section which systematizes and summarizes my research: 1) ten definitions
of truth, true, truly are given; 2) the logical, ontological, epistomological,
axiological and moral aspects of truth are recognized; 3) the proportion of
appearances of those aspects are calculated; and 4) the relationships between
presented definitions are stated. A short discussion of how the achieved results
fit into what has been already discovered by scholars closes this section. The index
of all 23 Hebrew terms in question with their vocalizations, original Hebrew
writing, frequency count and their codes in the leading Concordances are given
in the list of references. |