Definition

properly, a place of refuge; abstract, safety, both the fact (security) and the feeling (trust); often (adverb with or without preposition) safely

Etymology

from H982 (בָּטַח);

Where the KJV renders it

• assurance
• boldly
• (without) care(-less)
• confidence
• hope
• safe(-ly
• -ty)
• secure
• surely

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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