Bible word study

Betach (Strong’s H983): Meaning in the Bible

Betach (בֶּטַח) is the Hebrew word numbered H983 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, a place of refuge; abstract, safety, both the fact (security) and the feeling (trust); often (adverb with or without preposition) safely. In the King James Bible it is translated assurance, boldly, (without) care(-less), confidence, hope.

• Original wordבֶּטַח
• Transliterationbeṭach
• Pronunciationbeh'takh
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH983
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H982;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Betach appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Betach (H983) stands behind 42 English renderings in 41 verses across 16 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Ezekiel (11), Proverbs (4), Jeremiah (4).

How the King James Bible renders Betach, by count

• safely17 of 42 (40 percent)
• safety9 of 42 (21 percent)
• carelessly3 of 42 (7 percent)
• careless2 of 42 (5 percent)
• safe2 of 42 (5 percent)
• securely2 of 42 (5 percent)

Three places to read Betach

• Genesis 34:25 And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
• Psalms 4:8 I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
• Ezekiel 28:26 And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the LORD their God.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Betach in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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