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# בִּטָּחוֹן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H986

**trust** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

trust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/986/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בִּטָּחוֹן: n.m. trust [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/986/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. trust 2 K 18:19 = Is 36:4; hope Ec 9:4.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: trust (2); hope (1).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 9:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.9.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.9.4/#tree)

כִּי־מִי֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר יְחֻבַּ֔ר אֶ֥ל כָּל־הַחַיִּ֖ים יֵ֣שׁ בִּטָּח֑וֹן כִּֽי־לְכֶ֤לֶב חַי֙ ה֣וּא ט֔וֹב מִן־הָאַרְיֵ֖ה הַמֵּֽת׃

*Word for word:* (dm) who? \[is.the.one\].who he.is.united to all the living there.\[is\] hope (dm) to a.dog living it \[is\].good more.than the lion (the) dead

*JPS 1917:* For to him that is joined to all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.

[2 Kings 18:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.18.19/#tree)

וַיֹּ֤אמֶר אֲלֵהֶם֙ רַב־שָׁקֵ֔ה אִמְרוּ־נָ֖א אֶל־חִזְקִיָּ֑הוּ כֹּֽה־אָמַ֞ר הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ הַגָּדוֹל֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֔וּר מָ֧ה הַבִּטָּח֛וֹן הַזֶּ֖ה אֲשֶׁ֥ר בָּטָֽחְתָּ׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to them \[the\].Rab- shaqeh say please to Hezekiah thus he.says the king (the) great the.king of.Assyria what? \[is\].the trust (the) this which you.trust

*JPS 1917:* And Rab-shakeh said unto them: 'Say ye now to Hezekiah: Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria: What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/986/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).