betach · security, safely

What it means

betach (בֶּטַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “security, safely”.

Security, confidence; living "securely", without fear. Sometimes unsuspecting.

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. Living at ease, without fear; sometimes off guard.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• securely ×20
• security ×10
• safety ×6
• secure ×3
• trustingly ×2
• which was unsuspecting ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×3
• Deuteronomy×3
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×2
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×4
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×4
• Ezekiel×11
• Hosea×1
• Micah×1
• Zephaniah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 34:25

  It happened on the third day, while they were in pain, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, brothers of Dinah, took each his sword and came upon the city, which was unsuspecting, and killed every male.

• Leviticus 25:18

  So you shall do my statutes and keep my rules and do them, and you shall live on the land securely.

• Leviticus 25:19

  And the land will give its fruit, and you will eat your fill and live securely on it.

• Leviticus 26:5

  Your threshing will reach to the grape harvest, and the grape harvest will reach to the sowing time; and you will eat your bread to the full and live securely in your land.

• Deuteronomy 12:10

  But you will cross the Jordan and live in the land that YHWH your Elohim is causing you to inherit, and he will give rest to you from all your enemies around, and you will live in security.

• Deuteronomy 33:12

  Of Benjamin he said, “The beloved of YHWH will dwell in security beside him; he shields him all the day, and between his shoulders he dwells.”

• Deuteronomy 33:28

  And Israel dwells in security; alone the fountain of Jacob, toward a land of grain and new wine; also his heavens drip dew.

• Judges 8:11

  Gideon went up by the way of those who dwell in tents, east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and he struck the camp, while the camp was feeling secure.

• Judges 18:7

  So the five men went and came to Laish, and they saw the people who were in it, living in security, after the manner of the Sidonians, at rest and secure; and there was no one in the land putting them to shame in anything, no one possessing authority; and they were far from the Sidonians, and they had no dealings with anyone.

• 1 Samuel 12:11

  YHWH sent Jerubbaal and Bedan and Jephthah and Samuel, and he delivered you from the hand of your enemies all around, and you lived in security.

• 1 Kings 4:25

  And Judah and Israel lived securely, each man under his vine and under his fig tree, from Dan even to Beersheba, all the days of Solomon.

• Job 11:18

  And you will trust, because there is hope; you will search about and lie down in safety.

• Job 24:23

  He gives him security, and he leans on it; and his eyes are on their ways.

• Psalms 4:8

  In peace I will lie down and right away sleep, for you alone, YHWH, make me dwell in safety.

• Psalms 16:9

  Therefore my heart was glad and my glory was jubilant; also my flesh will dwell secure.

• Psalms 78:53

  And he led them in safety, and they were not in dread; but their enemies the sea covered.

• Proverbs 1:33

  But whoever listens to me will dwell securely, and will be at ease, without dread of evil.”

• Proverbs 3:23

  Then you will walk securely on your way, and your foot will not stumble.

• Proverbs 3:29

  Do not plot evil against your neighbor, while he dwells trustingly beside you.

• Proverbs 10:9

  He who walks in integrity walks securely, but he who makes crooked his ways will be found out.

• Isaiah 14:30

  And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy will lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and it will kill your remnant.

• Isaiah 32:17

  And the work of righteousness will be peace, and the labor of righteousness, quietness and security forever.

• Isaiah 47:8

  And now hear this, voluptuous one, who sits in security, who says in her heart, ‘I, and no one else; I will not sit as a widow, nor know loss of children.’

• Jeremiah 23:6

  In his days Judah will be saved, and Israel will dwell securely; and this is his name by which they will call him: “YHWH, our righteousness.”

• Jeremiah 32:37

  Look, I am gathering them from all the lands where I have driven them in my anger and in my fury and in great wrath; and I will bring them back to this place, and I will make them live in safety.

• Jeremiah 33:16

  In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely; and this is the name by which they will call her: ‘YHWH, our righteousness.’

• Jeremiah 49:31

  Rise up, go up against a nation at ease, that dwells in security, declares YHWH, that has no doors and no bar; they dwell alone.

• Ezekiel 28:26

  And they will dwell on it securely, and build houses and plant vineyards, and dwell securely, when I execute judgments on all who despise them from around them; and they will know that I am YHWH their Elohim.’”

• Ezekiel 30:9

  On that day messengers will go out from before me in ships to terrify Cush that is secure; and there will be shuddering among them on the day of Egypt; for, look, it is coming.

• Ezekiel 34:25

  And I will make with them a covenant of peace, and I will make evil animals cease from the land; and they will live in the wilderness securely and sleep in the forests.

• Ezekiel 34:27

  And the tree of the field will give its fruit, and the land will give its harvest, and they will be on their ground securely; and they will know that I am YHWH, when I break the bars of their yoke and deliver them from the hand of those who made use of them.

• Ezekiel 34:28

  And they will no longer be booty for the nations, and the animals of the earth will not devour them; and they will live securely, and there will be no one to make them afraid.

• Ezekiel 38:8

  After many days you will be summoned; at the end of the years you will come to a land restored from the sword, gathered from many peoples, on the mountains of Israel, which had been a ruin continually; and it was brought out from the peoples, and they live securely, all of them.

• Ezekiel 38:11

  and you will say, “I will go up against a land of unwalled towns; I will come against those at ease, who live securely, all of them living without wall, and bar and doors they do not have,”

• Ezekiel 38:14

  Therefore prophesy, son of man, and say to Gog, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: Will it not be that on that day, when my people Israel lives securely, you will know it?

• Ezekiel 39:6

  And I will send fire on Magog and on those who live in the coastlands securely; and they will know that I am YHWH.

• Ezekiel 39:26

  And they will bear their shame and all their infidelity with which they were unfaithful to me, when they live on their own ground securely, and no one makes them afraid,

• Hosea 2:18

  And I will make for them a covenant on that day with the animals of the field, and with the birds of the heavens, and the creeping things of the ground; and bow and sword and war I will break from the land, and I will make them lie down in safety.

• Micah 2:8

  “And yesterday my people rose up as an enemy; from the front of the garment you strip the cloak from those who pass by trustingly, like those returning from war.

• Zephaniah 2:15

  This is the exultant city who sat in security, who said in her heart, “I, and no one else.” How she has become a horror, a resting place for animals! Everyone who passes by her will hiss and shake his hand.

And 2 more times.