בֶּטַח
beṭach · H983 · Hebrew · 42 occurrences
Meanings
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confident, unsuspecting, securely, off guard
State in which humans live with confidence and without fear; often regarded as carelessness, especially when there is no mention of trust in YHWH
ExamplesGenesis 34:25 Now it came about on the third day, when they were in pain, that two of Jacob’s sons—Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brothers—each took his sword and came upon the city undetected, and killed every male.
Leviticus 25:18 ‘You shall therefore follow My statutes and keep My judgments so as to carry them out, so that you may live securely on the land.
Leviticus 25:19 ‘Then the land will yield its produce, so that you can eat your fill and live securely on it.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כּוּשׁCush 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הָיָהto be, to become 1
What is said to be itIt is the predicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עֲבֹדָהwork 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
32 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 63
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 3 words
- πείθω peíthō · G3982 · to persuade, to convince, to rely on
- πείθω emphasizes the active process of persuading or convincing that leads to assurance and trust, while בֶּטַח denotes the resulting state of security, assurance or assurance itself; the Greek verb focuses on inducing trust, the Hebrew noun on possessing it.
- ἐλπίς elpís · G1680 · to hope, to hope for, hope
- בֶּטַח (beṭach, H983) encompasses both confident security/safety (often present-oriented physical safety) and forward-looking trust, while ἐλπίς (elpís, G1680) ἐλπίς specifically denotes expectation or hope oriented toward future outcomes; the overlap occurs where בֶּטַח (beṭach, H983)'s sense of confident trust projects forward, making ἐλπίς an appropriate Greek rendering for the hope/expectation component of the Hebrew semantic range rather than its physical-safety component.
- εἰρήνη eirḗnē · G1515 · peace, tranquility, freedom from worry
- Greek εἰρήνη (peace) captures the broader outcome-state often associated with Hebrew בֶּטַח (security, assurance), particularly where security and peace overlap, as in dwelling in safety, which implies peaceful conditions; the Hebrew focuses more narrowly on subjective assurance or objective security, while the Greek emphasizes the relational and communal state of peace.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Confident002001002003
- The noun denotes confidence or a sense of security, as Israel is promised they may 'live securely on the land' in Leviticus 25:18-19, fitting this domain's core sense of confidence.
- Names of Locations003001010
- This code is inherited from the shared root's place-name homograph (Betah, בֶּטַח (Beṭach, H984)) rather than describing the abstract 'security' sense drafted here.
Word family 5 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H983. betach I. בֶּ֫טַח noun [masculine] security — Gen 34:25 41t.; וָבֶטַח הַשְׁקֵט Isa…
I. בֶּ֫טַח noun [masculine] security — Gen 34:25 41t.; וָבֶטַח הַשְׁקֵט Isa 32:17 quietness and security = וּבְבִטְחָה בְּהַשְׁקֵט Isa 30:15 (but probably both infinitives) elsewhere always adverb; — securely, לבטח ישׁב Lev 25:18-19, Lev 26:5; Jdg 18:7; 1Ki 5:5; Psalm 4:9; Pro 3:29; Isa 47:8; Jer 32:37; Jer 49:31; Eze 28:26; Eze 34:25, Eze 34:28; Eze 38:8, Eze 38:11, Eze 38:14; Eze 39:6, Eze 39:26; Zep 2:15; Zec 14:11; בטח ישׁב Deu 12:10; 1Sa 12:11; לבטח שׁכן Deu 33:12; Psa 16:9; Jer 23:6; Jer 33:16; בטח שׁכן Deu 33:28; Pro 1:33; לבטח (היה) Job 24:23; Eze 34:27; בטח היה Jdg 8:11; לבטח הלך Pro 3:23; בטח הלך Pro 10:9; לבטח שׁכב Job 11:18; Hos 2:20; לבטח רבץ Isa 14:30; לבטח נחה Psa 78:53; בטח עבר Mic 2:8; בטח כושׁ Cush (dwelling) securely Eze 30:9 (pregnant construction, strike out בטח Co); בֶּטַח הָעִיר עַל וַיָּבאֹוּ and they came upon the city (dwelling) securely Gen 34:25 (J).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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