Refuge
חָסוּתStrong’s H2622chasut (cha-sut)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Chasut is the Hebrew word usually translated “refuge”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.”
Meaning
- Refuge, shelter
How it's translated
- and the refuge 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
חָסוּת chasut · refuge
refuge, shelter
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “refuge” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REF'UGE, noun
[Latin refugium, refugio; re and fugio, to flee.]
- Shelter or protection from danger or distress.“We have made lies our refuge” Isaiah 28:15“- We might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold on the hope set before us” Hebrews 6:18
- That which shelters or protects from danger, distress or calamity; a strong hold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; any place inaccessible to an enemy.“The high hills are a refuge for the wild goats” Psalms 104:18“The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed” Psalms 9:9
- An expedient to secure protection or defense.
- Expedient, in general.
All definitions and other forms of “refuge”
REF'UGE, verb transitive
To shelter; to protect.
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.