Security
בַּטֻּחוֹתStrong’s H0987battuchot (bat-tu-chot)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Battuchot is the Hebrew word usually translated “securiti”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.”
Meaning
- Security, safety
How it's translated
- and securiti 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בַּטֻּחוֹת battuchot · security
security, safety
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “security” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SECU'RITY, noun.
[Latin securitas.]
- Protection; effectual defense or saftey from danger of any kind; as a chain of forts erected for the security of the frontiers.
- That which protects or guards from danger.
- Freedom from fear or apprehension; confidence of safety; whence, negligence in providing means of defense.
- Safety; certainty.
All definitions
- Anything given or deposited to secure the payment of a debt, or the performance of a contract; as a bond with surety, a mortgage, the indorsement of a responsible man, a pledge, etc.
- Something given or done to secure peace or good behavior.
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.