Confidence
כִּסְלָהStrong’s H3690kislah (kis-lah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kislah is the Hebrew word usually translated “confidence your” and “folly”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?”
Meaning
- Confidence
- Folly, stupidity
How it's translated
- confidence your 1
- to folly 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Psalms 1
2 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
כִּסְלָה kislah · confidence
1) confidence 2) folly, stupidity
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “confidence” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CON'FIDENCE, noun
[Latin See Confide.]
- A trusting, or reliance; an assurance of mind or firm belief in the integrity, stability or veracity of another, or in the truth and reality of a fact.“It is better to trust in the Lord, than to put confidence in man” Psalms 118:8“I rejoice that I have confidence in you in all things” 2 Corinthians 7:16
- Trust; reliance; applied to one's own abilities, or fortune; belief in one's own competency.
- That in which trust is placed; ground of trust; he or that which supports.“Israel was ashamed of Beth-el their confidence” Jeremiah 48:13
- Safety, or assurance of safety; security.“They shall build houses and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence” Ezekiel 28:26
All definitions
- Boldness; courage.“Preaching the kingdom of God with all confidence” Acts 28:31
- Excessive boldness; assurance, proceeding forom vanity or a false opinion of one's own abilities, or excellencies.
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.