Hebrew noun (masculine) · H983
בֶּטַח
betachbeh'takh
security
42 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: beṭach
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H983is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 16 of 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H983
properly, a place of refuge; abstract, safety, both the fact (security) and the feeling (trust); often (adverb with or without preposition) safely
The King James renders it: assurance, boldly, (without) care(-less), confidence, hope, safe(-ly, -ty), secure, surely.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
betach is rendered "security". It stands 42 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.
- Eleven of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 34:25Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
Genesis 34:25בֶּ֑טַח
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Eleven of the word's forty-two uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- to security32
- security9
- and security1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בֶּטֶן | beten | belly: abdomen | Uses72 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 42, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- לָבֶ֖טַח8
- לָבֶ֑טַח6
- לָבֶֽטַח׃5
- בֶּ֑טַח4
- לָבֶ֣טַח3
- לָבֶ֔טַח3
- בֶּֽטַח׃2
- לָ֭בֶטַח2
- בֶּ֤טַח1
- בֶּ֔טַח1
- בֶֽטַח׃1
- וָבֶ֖טַח1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine singular32HR/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular9HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
Three days later, while they were still in pain, two of Jacob’s sons (Dinah’s brothers Simeon and Levi) took their swords, went into the unsuspecting city, and slaughtered every male.
- בֶּ֑טַחbetachnoun · masculine singulartagged: security
Leviticus
three uses
You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.
- לָבֶֽטַח׃lavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Then the land will yield its fruit, so that you can eat your fill and dwell in safety in the land.
- לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Your 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.
- לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Deuteronomy
three uses
When 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,
- בֶּֽטַח׃betachnoun · masculine singulartagged: security
Concerning 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.”
- לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
So Israel dwells securely; the fountain of Jacob lives untroubled in a land of grain and new wine, where even the heavens drip with dew.
- בֶּ֤טַחbetachnoun · masculine singulartagged: security
Judges
two uses
And Gideon went up by way of the caravan route east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he attacked their army, taking them by surprise.
- בֶֽטַח׃vetachnoun · masculine singulartagged: security
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.
- לָ֠בֶטַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
1 Samuel
one use
So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.
- בֶּֽטַח׃betachnoun · masculine singulartagged: security
1 Kings
one use
Throughout the days of Solomon, Judah and Israel dwelt securely from Dan to Beersheba, each man under his own vine and his own fig tree.
- לָבֶ֗טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Job
two uses
You will be secure, because there is hope, and you will look around and lie down in safety.
- לָבֶ֥טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
He gives them a sense of security, but His eyes are on their ways.
- לָ֭בֶטַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Psalms
three uses
I will lie down and sleep in peace, for You alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.
- לָ֝בֶ֗טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices; my body also will dwell securely.
- לָבֶֽטַח׃lavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
He led them safely, so they did not fear, but the sea engulfed their enemies.
- לָ֭בֶטַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Proverbs
four uses
But whoever listens to me will dwell in safety, secure from the fear of evil.”
- בֶּ֑טַחbetachnoun · masculine singulartagged: security
Then you will go on your way in safety, and your foot will not stumble.
- לָבֶ֣טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Do not devise evil against your neighbor, for he trustfully dwells beside you.
- לָבֶ֣טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who perverts his ways will be found out.
- בֶּ֑טַחbetachnoun · masculine singulartagged: security
Isaiah
three uses
Then 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.
- לָבֶ֣טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
The work of righteousness will be peace; the service of righteousness will be quiet confidence forever.
- וָבֶ֖טַחvavetachconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and security
So 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.’
- לָבֶ֔טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Jeremiah
four uses
In 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.
- לָבֶ֑טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
I 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.
- לָבֶֽטַח׃lavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
In 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.
- לָבֶ֑טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Rise up, advance against a nation at ease, one that dwells securely,” declares the LORD. “They have no gates or bars; they live alone.
- לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Ezekiel
eleven uses
And 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.’”
- לָבֶטַח֒lavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
- לָבֶ֑טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
On 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.
- בֶּ֑טַחbetachnoun · masculine singulartagged: security
I 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.
- לָבֶ֔טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
The 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.
- לָבֶ֑טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
They 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.
- לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
After 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.
- לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
You 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—
- לָבֶ֑טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Therefore 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?
- לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
I will send fire on Magog and on those who dwell securely in the coastlands, and they will know that I am the LORD.
- לָבֶ֑טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
They 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.
- לָבֶ֖טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Hosea
one use
On that day I will make a covenant for them with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air and the creatures that crawl on the ground. And I will abolish bow and sword and weapons of war in the land, and will make them lie down in safety.
- לָבֶֽטַח׃lavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Micah
one use
But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.
- בֶּ֔טַחbetachnoun · masculine singulartagged: security
Zephaniah
one use
This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.
- לָבֶ֔טַחlavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Zechariah
one use
People will live there, and never again will there be an utter destruction. So Jerusalem will dwell securely.
- לָבֶֽטַח׃lavetachpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to security
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.