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To trust

בָּטַחStrong’s H0982

batach (ba-tach)

Appears in 117 verses of the Old Testament

In short

To trust, to lean on, to feel secure. "Trust in the LORD with all thine heart" (Proverbs 3:5) uses it, as does Psalm 56:3: "What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee."

“Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.”
Proverbs 3:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. To trust(Qal) · (Hiphil)
  2. (TWOT) to feel safe, be careless
How it's translated
  • trusting 12
  • trust 7
  • they trusted 6
  • you trust 6
  • i trust 6
  • i have trusted 5
  • you rely 3
  • we trust 3

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 45
  • Isaiah 19
  • Jeremiah 16
  • Proverbs 10
  • 2 Kings 8
  • Judges 5

16 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 117 verses, by book
Deuteronomy 1
28:52
1 Chronicles 1
5:20
2 Chronicles 1
32:10
Ezekiel 2
16:1533:13
Hosea 1
10:13
Amos 1
6:1
Micah 1
7:5
Habakkuk 1
2:18
Zephaniah 1
3:2
Hebrew dictionary

בָּטַח batach · to trust

1) to trust 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to trust, trust in 1a2) to have confidence, be confident 1a3) to be bold 1a4) to be secure 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to cause to trust, make secure 2) (TWOT) to feel safe, be careless

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “trust” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

TRUST, noun

  1. Confidence; a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person.“He that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe” Proverbs 28:25
  2. He or that which is the ground of confidence.“O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth” Psalms 71:5
  3. Charge received in confidence.
  4. That which is committed to one's care.
All definitions and other forms of “trust”
  1. Confident opinion of any event.
  2. Credit given without examination; as, to take opinions on trust
  3. Credit on promise of payment, actual or implied; as, to take or purchase goods on trust
  4. Something committed to a person's care for use or management, and for which an account must be rendered.
  5. Confidence; special reliance on supposed honesty.
  6. State of him to whom something is entrusted.
  7. Care; management. 1 Timothy 6:17
  8. In law, an estate, devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will of another; an estate held for the use of another.

TRUST, verb transitive

To place confidence in; to rely on. We cannot trust those who have deceived us.

  1. To believe; to credit.
  2. To commit to the care of, in confidence. trust your Maker with yourself and all your concerns.
  3. To venture confidently.
  4. To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.

TRUST, verb intransitive

To be confident of something present or future.

  1. “I trust to come to you, and speak face to face” 2 John 1:12“We trust we have a good conscience” Hebrews 13:18
  2. To be credulous; to be won to confidence.“TRUST in the Lord, and do good” Psalms 37:3“They shall be greatly ashamed that trust in graven images” Isaiah 42:17

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.