Word study · Hebrew
בָּטַח
ba.tachH0982to trust
Used 120 times in the tagged text.
What it means
- to trust
- (TWOT) to feel safe, be careless
Full dictionary entry (technical)
- 1) to trust
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to trust, trust in
- 1a2) to have confidence, be confident
- 1a3) to be bold
- 1a4) to be secure
- 1b) (Hiphil)
- 1b1) to cause to trust, make secure
- 2) (TWOT) to feel safe, be careless
Same idea, other words · Faith, trust and faithfulness
Faith in Scripture is trust that rests on someone's faithfulness. The Hebrew words about trusting and being firm lie behind the New Testament's pistis.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy1
- Judges5
- 2 Kings9
- 1 Chronicles1
- 2 Chronicles1
- Job4
- Psalms46
- Proverbs10
- Isaiah20
- Jeremiah16
- Ezekiel2
- Hosea1
- Amos1
- Micah1
- Habakkuk1
- Zephaniah1
Every use · 1–50 of 120 · BSB
They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.
Meanwhile, Gaal son of Ebed came with his brothers and crossed into Shechem, and the leaders of Shechem put their confidence in him.
So the five men departed and came to Laish, where they saw that the people were living securely, like the Sidonians, tranquil and unsuspecting. There was nothing lacking in the land and no oppressive ruler. And they were far away from the Sidonians and had no alliance with anyone.
When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”
After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a tranquil and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.
Then the Benjamites realized they had been defeated. Now the men of Israel had retreated before Benjamin because they were relying on the ambush they had set against Gibeah.
Hezekiah trusted in the LORD, the God of Israel. No king of Judah was like him, either before him or after him.
The Rabshakeh said to them, “Tell Hezekiah that this is what the great king, the king of Assyria, says: What is the basis of this confidence of yours?
You claim to have a strategy and strength for war, but these are empty words. In whom are you now trusting, that you have rebelled against me?
Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it. Such is Pharaoh king of Egypt to all who trust in him.
But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must worship before this altar in Jerusalem’?
For how can you repel a single officer among the least of my master’s servants when you depend on Egypt for chariots and horsemen?
Do not let Hezekiah persuade you to trust in the LORD when he says, ‘The LORD will surely deliver us; this city will not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.’
“Give this message to Hezekiah king of Judah: ‘Do not let your God, in whom you trust, deceive you by saying that Jerusalem will not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
And because they cried out to God in battle, they were helped against their enemies, and the Hagrites and all their allies were delivered into their hands. Because they put their trust in God, He answered their prayers.
“This is what Sennacherib king of Assyria says: What is the basis of your confidence, that you remain in Jerusalem under siege?
They are confounded because they had hoped; their arrival brings disappointment.
You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.
Can you rely on his great strength? Will you leave your hard work to him?
Though the river rages, Behemoth is unafraid; he remains secure, though the Jordan surges to his mouth.
Offer the sacrifices of the righteous and trust in the LORD.
Those who know Your name trust in You, for You, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek You.
But I have trusted in Your loving devotion; my heart will rejoice in Your salvation.
For the king trusts in the LORD; through the loving devotion of the Most High, he will not be shaken.
In You our fathers trusted; they trusted and You delivered them.
In You our fathers trusted; they trusted and You delivered them.
They cried out to You and were set free; they trusted in You and were not disappointed.
Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
in You, my God, I trust. Do not let me be put to shame; do not let my enemies exult over me.
Of David. Vindicate me, O LORD! For I have walked with integrity; I have trusted in the LORD without wavering.
Though an army encamps around me, my heart will not fear; though a war breaks out against me, I will keep my trust.
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in Him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart rejoices, and I give thanks to Him with my song.
I hate those who cling to worthless idols, but in the LORD I trust.
But I trust in You, O LORD; I say, “You are my God.”
Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but loving devotion surrounds him who trusts in the LORD.
For our hearts rejoice in Him, since we trust in His holy name.
Trust in the LORD and do good; dwell in the land and cultivate faithfulness.
Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him, and He will do it.
He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the LORD.
Even my close friend whom I trusted, the one who shared my bread, has lifted up his heel against me.
For I do not trust in my bow, nor does my sword save me.
They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
But I am like an olive tree flourishing in the house of God; I trust in the loving devotion of God forever and ever.
But You, O God, will bring them down to the Pit of destruction; men of bloodshed and deceit will not live out half their days. But I will trust in You.
When I am afraid, I put my trust in You.
In God, whose word I praise— in God I trust. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah
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