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[Facts] Emet
On Name Opinions, someone wrote about meeting a young boy named Emet. He stated that his name was hebrew for truth, and he had hear his rabbi use itI'm curious as to whether or not this is true.
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Emet is listed in Smadar Shir Sidi's The Complete Book of Hebrew Baby Names, but it is listed there as a girls' name and not a boys' name.
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"Emet" means "truth" indeed in Hebrew, bt I haven't heard of it as a name.
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I have however heard the surname Emmett used as a given name; it is stressed on the first syllable (and I would guess Emet is on the second), but if namers are used to hearing Emmett then Emet might not seem like much of a stretch.
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The Hebrew vocabulary word EMET is also stressed on the first syllable
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Sorry, I was wrong and you were right ...I looked it up and realised that it is e-MET as you had guessed. Sorry!
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Told you I was guessing! Thanks, Andy. Probably counts as another crumb of evidence for my theory ...All the best
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