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# בֶּטַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H983

**security** — used 42 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

security [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/983/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶּ֫טַח: security [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/983/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] security—Gn 34:25 + 41 times; הַשְׁקֵט וָבֶטַח Is 32:17 quietness and security = בְּהַשְׁקֵט וּבְבִטְחָה Is 30:15 (but prob. both infs.) elsewhere always adverb;—securely, ישׁב לבטח Lv 25:18, 19; 26:5 Ju 18:7 1 K 5:5 ψ 4:9 Pr 3:29 Is 47:8 Je 32:37; 49:31 Ez 28:26; 34:25, 28; 38:8, 11, 14; 39:6, 26 Zp 2:15 Zc 14:11; ישׁב בטח Dt 12:10 1 S 12:11; שׁכן לבטח Dt 33:12 ψ 16:9 Je 23:6; 33:16; שׁכן בטח Dt 33:28 Pr 1:33; לבטח (היה) Jb 24:23 Ez 34:27; היה בטח Ju 8:11; הלך לבטח Pr 3:23; הלך בטח Pr 10:9; שׁכב לבטח Jb 11:18 Ho 2:20; רבץ לבטח Is 14:30; נחה לבטח ψ 78:53; עבר בטח Mi 2:8; כושׁ בטח Cush (dwelling) securely Ez 30:9 (pregnant construction, del. בטח Co); וַיָּבֹאוּ עַל הָעִיר בֶּטַח and they came upon the city (dwelling) securely Gn 34:25 (J).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 41 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: security (42).

## In the verses

[Job 11:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.18/#tree)

וּֽ֭בָטַחְתָּ כִּי־יֵ֣שׁ תִּקְוָ֑ה וְ֝חָפַרְתָּ֗ לָבֶ֥טַח תִּשְׁכָּֽב׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.be.secure (dm) there.\[is\] hope and you.will.be.well.protected to security you.will.lie.down

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt look about thee, and shalt take thy rest in safety.

[Proverbs 1:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.1.33/#tree)

וְשֹׁמֵ֣עַֽ לִ֭י יִשְׁכָּן־בֶּ֑טַח וְ֝שַׁאֲנַ֗ן מִפַּ֥חַד רָעָֽה׃פ

*Word for word:* and \[one.who\].listens to me he.will.dwell security and he.will.be.at.ease from dread of.trouble

*JPS 1917:* But whoso hearkeneth unto me shall dwell securely, and shall be quiet without fear of evil.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/983.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/983/): 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).