mivtach · confidence, trust

What it means

mivtach (מִבְטָח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “confidence, trust”.

Security, what someone trusts in; a refuge.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. That on which one leans and rests secure.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• confidence ×6
• trust ×4
• security ×3
• secure ×1
• which it trusted ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Job×3
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×4
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×1

• Job 8:14

  whose confidence is cut off, and whose security is a spider’s house.

• Job 18:14

  He is torn from his tent, his security, and they march him to the king of terrors.

• Job 31:24

  If I have made gold my confidence, and to fine gold said, ‘My security,’

• Psalms 40:4

  Happy is the man who has made YHWH his trust, and has not turned to the arrogant or to those who go astray after a lie.

• Psalms 65:5

  With awesome things in righteousness you answer us, Elohim of our salvation, the confidence of all the ends of the earth and of the sea far off;

• Psalms 71:5

  For you are my hope, Adonai YHWH, my confidence from my youth.

• Proverbs 14:26

  In the fear of YHWH is strong confidence, and for his sons there will be a refuge.

• Proverbs 21:22

  A wise man scales the city of warriors, and brings down the strength in which it trusted.

• Proverbs 22:19

  So that your trust may be in YHWH, I have made them known to you today, even to you.

• Proverbs 25:19

  A broken tooth and a slipping foot is confidence in a treacherous man in the day of distress.

• Isaiah 32:18

  And my people will dwell in an abode of peace, and in secure dwellings, and in quiet resting places.

• Jeremiah 2:37

  From there also you will go out with your hands on your head; for YHWH has rejected those you trust, and you will not prosper with them.

• Jeremiah 17:7

  Blessed is the man who trusts in YHWH, and YHWH is his trust.

• Jeremiah 48:13

  And Moab will be ashamed of Chemosh, as the house of Israel was ashamed of Bethel, their confidence.

• Ezekiel 29:16

  And it will no longer be to the house of Israel an object of confidence bringing to mind iniquity, when they turned after them; and they will know that I am Adonai YHWH.’”