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# מִבְטָח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4009

**confidence** — used 15 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

confidence [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4009/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] confidence Ez 29:16—cstr. מִבְטַח Pr 14:26, מִבְטָח ψ 65:6; sf. מִבְטַחִי Jb 31:24 + 6 times (dag. implicit); מִבְטֶחָם Je 48:13; מִבְטֶחָהֿ Pr 21:22; pl. מִבְטַחִים Is 32:18; מִבְטָחַיִךְ Je 2:37;— the act of confiding Pr 21:22; 22:19; 25:19. the object of confidence Jb 8:14; 18:14; 31:24 ψ 40:5; 65:6; 71:5 Je 2:37; 17:7; 48:13 Ez 29:16. the state of confidence, security Pr 14:26 Is 32:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 15 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: of confidence (7); confidence (2); \[the\] confidence (1).

## In the verses

[Job 8:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.14/#tree)

אֲשֶׁר־יָק֥וֹט כִּסְל֑וֹ וּבֵ֥ית עַ֝כָּבִ֗ישׁ מִבְטַחֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* who it.snaps confidence his and \[is.the\].house of.a.spider of.confidence his.object

*JPS 1917:* Whose confidence is gossamer, and whose trust is a spider's web.

[Proverbs 21:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.21.22/#tree)

עִ֣יר גִּ֭בֹּרִים עָלָ֣ה חָכָ֑ם וַ֝יֹּ֗רֶד עֹ֣ז מִבְטֶחָֽה׃

*Word for word:* a.city of.warriors he.goes.up a.wise.\[person\] and he.brought.down \[the\].strength its.confidence her

*JPS 1917:* A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and bringeth down the stronghold wherein it trusteth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4009.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4009/): 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).