בָּטַח bâṭach — figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure
Translated in the KJV as be bold (confident, secure, sure), careless (one, woman), put confidence, hope, (put, make to) trust.
a primitive root; properly, to hie for refuge (but not so precipitately as H2620); figuratively, to trust, be confident or sure.
bâṭach in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (active) 36Perfect (qatal) 35Imperfect (yiqtol) 13Wayyiqtol 9Imperative 9Jussive 6Infinitive construct 3Participle (passive) 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Infinitive absolute 1
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.
And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem: and the men of Shechem put their confidence in him.
Then the five men departed, and came to Laish, and saw the people that were therein, how they dwelt careless, after the manner of the Zidonians, quiet and secure; and there was no magistrate in the land, that might put them to shame in any thing; and they were far from the Zidonians, and had no business with any man.
Hiph'il
Jussive 2Participle (active) 1Perfect (qatal) 1Wayyiqtol 1
Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us, and this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother’s belly.
Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the Lord, saying, The Lord will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›