Word Study · Strong's H983 · Hebrew
בֶּטַח
betach
beh'takh
Strong's 1890 spelling: beṭach
“properly, a place of refuge”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
properly, a place of refuge; abstract, safety, both the fact (security) and the feeling (trust); often (adverb with or without preposition) safely
Rendered in the KJV as
assurance, boldly, (without) care(-less), confidence, hope, safe(-ly, -ty), secure, surely.
- 42occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 16 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 17inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 42 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 17
- לָבֶ֖טַח8
- לָבֶ֑טַח6
- לָבֶֽטַח׃5
- בֶּ֑טַח4
- לָבֶ֣טַח3
- לָבֶ֔טַח3
- בֶּֽטַח׃2
- לָ֭בֶטַח2
- בֶּ֤טַח1
- בֶּ֔טַח1
- בֶֽטַח׃1
- וָבֶ֖טַח1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 3
- to security32
- security9
- and security1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 3
- preposition + noun · masculine singular32
- noun · masculine singular9
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HR/Ncmsa · 32
- HNcmsa · 9
- HC/Ncmsa · 1
All 42, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Ezekiel11 of 42 · 26%
- Proverbs4 of 42 · 10%
- Jeremiah4 of 42 · 10%
- Leviticus3 of 42 · 7%
- Deuteronomy3 of 42 · 7%
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Leviticus3 occurrences
- Leviticus 25:18לָבֶֽטַח׃lavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularYou are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.here: to security
- Leviticus 25:19לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularThen the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.here: to security
- Leviticus 26:5לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularYour threshing will continue until the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have your fill of food to eat and will dwell securely in your land.here: to security
Deuteronomy3 occurrences
- Deuteronomy 12:10בֶּֽטַח׃betachnoun · masculine singularWhen you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,here: security
- Deuteronomy 33:12לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularConcerning Benjamin he said: “May the beloved of the LORD rest secure in Him; God shields him all day long, and upon His shoulders he rests.”here: to security
- Deuteronomy 33:28בֶּ֤טַחbetachnoun · masculine singularSo Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.here: security
Judges2 occurrences
- Judges 8:11בֶֽטַח׃vetachnoun · masculine singularAnd Gideon went up by way of the caravan route east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he attacked their army, taking them by surprise.here: security
- Judges 18:7לָ֠בֶטַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularSo 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.here: to security
Job2 occurrences
- Job 11:18לָבֶ֥טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularYou will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.here: to security
- Job 24:23לָ֭בֶטַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularHe gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.here: to security
Psalms3 occurrences
- Psalms 4:8לָ֝בֶ֗טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularI will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.here: to security
- Psalms 16:9לָבֶֽטַח׃lavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularTherefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell securely.here: to security
- Psalms 78:53לָ֭בֶטַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularHe led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.here: to security
Proverbs4 occurrences
- Proverbs 1:33בֶּ֑טַחbetachnoun · masculine singularBut whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”here: security
- Proverbs 3:23לָבֶ֣טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularThen you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble.here: to security
- Proverbs 3:29לָבֶ֣טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularDo not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.here: to security
- Proverbs 10:9בֶּ֑טַחbetachnoun · masculine singularHe who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.here: security
Isaiah3 occurrences
- Isaiah 14:30לָבֶ֣טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularThen the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.here: to security
- Isaiah 32:17וָבֶ֖טַחvavetachconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singularThe work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.here: and security
- Isaiah 47:8לָבֶ֔טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularSo now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’here: to security
Jeremiah4 occurrences
- Jeremiah 23:6לָבֶ֑טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularIn His days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely. And this is His name by which He will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.here: to security
- Jeremiah 32:37לָבֶֽטַח׃lavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularI will surely gather My people from all the lands to which I have banished them in My furious anger and great wrath, and I will return them to this place and make them dwell in safety.here: to security
- Jeremiah 33:16לָבֶ֑טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularIn those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.here: to security
- Jeremiah 49:31לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularRise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely,” declares the LORD. “They have no gates or bars; they live alone.here: to security
Ezekiel11 occurrences
- Ezekiel 28:26לָבֶטַח֒lavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularAnd there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”here: to security
- Ezekiel 28:26לָבֶ֑טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularAnd there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”here: to security
- Ezekiel 30:9בֶּ֑טַחbetachnoun · masculine singularOn that day messengers will go out from Me in ships to frighten Cush out of complacency. Anguish will come upon them on the day of Egypt’s doom. For it is indeed coming.here: security
- Ezekiel 34:25לָבֶ֔טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularI will make with them a covenant of peace and rid the land of wild animals, so that they may dwell securely in the wilderness and sleep in the forest.here: to security
- Ezekiel 34:27לָבֶ֑טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularThe trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; My flock will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and delivered them from the hands that enslaved them.here: to security
- Ezekiel 34:28לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularThey will no longer be prey for the nations, and the beasts of the earth will not consume them. They will dwell securely, and no one will frighten them.here: to security
- Ezekiel 38:8לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularAfter a long time you will be summoned. In the latter years you will enter a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and all now dwell securely.here: to security
- Ezekiel 38:11לָבֶ֑טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularYou will say, ‘I will go up against a land of unwalled villages; I will come against a tranquil people who dwell securely, all of them living without walls or bars or gates—here: to security
- Ezekiel 38:14לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularTherefore prophesy, son of man, and tell Gog that this is what the Lord GOD says: On that day when My people Israel are dwelling securely, will you not take notice of this?here: to security
- Ezekiel 39:6לָבֶ֑טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularI will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the LORD.here: to security
- Ezekiel 39:26לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singularThey will forget their disgrace and all the treachery they committed against Me, when they dwell securely in their land, with no one to frighten them.here: to security
Same headword in Strong's