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 · 101–120 of 120 · BSB
therefore what I did to Shiloh I will now do to the house that bears My Name, the house in which you trust, the place that I gave to you and your fathers.
“Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.
“If you have raced with men on foot and they have worn you out, how can you compete with horses? If you stumble in a peaceful land, how will you do in the thickets of the Jordan?
This is your lot, the portion I have measured to you,” declares the LORD, “because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes the flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.
But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in Him.
Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, “Listen, Hananiah! The LORD did not send you, but you have persuaded this people to trust in a lie.
“Send a message telling all the exiles what the LORD says concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite. Because Shemaiah has prophesied to you—though I did not send him—and has made you trust in a lie,
For I will surely rescue you so that you do not fall by the sword. Because you have trusted in Me, you will escape with your life like a spoil of war, declares the LORD.’”
The LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: “Behold, I am about to punish Amon god of Thebes, along with Pharaoh, Egypt with her gods and kings, and those who trust in Pharaoh.
Because you trust in your works and treasures, you too will be captured, and Chemosh will go into exile with his priests and officials.
Why do you boast of your valleys— your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ‘Who can come against me?’
Abandon your orphans; I will preserve their lives. Let your widows trust in Me.”
But because of your fame, you trusted in your beauty and played the harlot. You lavished your favors on everyone who passed by, and your beauty was theirs for the asking.
If I tell the righteous man that he will surely live, but he then trusts in his righteousness and commits iniquity, then none of his righteous works will be remembered; he will die because of the iniquity he has committed.
You have plowed wickedness and reaped injustice; you have eaten the fruit of lies. Because you have trusted in your own way and in the multitude of your mighty men,
Woe to those at ease in Zion and those secure on Mount Samaria, the distinguished ones of the foremost nation, to whom the house of Israel comes.
Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.
What use is an idol, that a craftsman should carve it— or an image, a teacher of lies? For its maker trusts in his own creation; he makes idols that cannot speak.
She heeded no voice; she accepted no correction. She does not trust in the LORD; she has not drawn near to her God.
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