Word study

Securely

3 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word

The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “securely”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.

At a glance

How often each original word is translated “securely” or one of its forms.

Compare the Hebrew words side by side

Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)

  • בֶּטַח beṭachsecuritytranslated this way 21 times of its 39 uses · Strong’s H983Noun  ·  Translated: securely 21, safety 8, unsuspecting 2, secure 2

    Leviticus 25:18 You are to keep My statutes and carefully observe My judgments, so that you may dwell securely in the land.

    Deuteronomy 12:10 When you cross the Jordan and live in the land that the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance, and He gives you rest from all the enemies around you and you dwell securely,

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  • יָשַׁב yâshabsit, remain, dwelltranslated this way 3 times of its 1,049 uses · Strong’s H3427Verb  ·  Translated: lived 103, dwell 89, live 84, sit 70Full study and all 960 verses →
  • שָׁכַן shâkansettle down, abide, dwelltranslated this way 2 times of its 129 uses · Strong’s H7931Verb  ·  Translated: dwell 45, dwelling 9, settle 8, settled 7

    Psalm 102:28 The children of Your servants will dwell securely, and their descendants will be established before You.”

    Jeremiah 33:16 In those days Judah will be saved, and Jerusalem will dwell securely, and this is the name by which it will be called: The LORD Our Righteousness.

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Greek words (New Testament)

  • ἀσφαλῶς asphalōssafely, securely, assuredlytranslated this way 2 times of its 3 uses · Strong’s G806Adverb  ·  Translated: securely 2, certainty 1

    Mark 14:44 Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them: “The One I kiss is the man; arrest Him and lead Him away securely.”

    Acts 16:23 And after striking them with many blows, they threw them into prison and ordered the jailer to guard them securely.

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How to study a word well
  1. Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
  2. Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
  3. Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
  4. Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
  5. See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
  6. Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
  7. Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.

Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.