H982 " bāṭa : Trust, reliance on, feel secure in
<p>Strong's Talking Greek & Hebrew Dictionary: H982, bāṭa. properly to hie for refuge; figurative to trust, be confident or sure :- be bold (confident, secure, sure), careless (one, woman), put confidence, (make to) hope, (put, make to) trust.</p>
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<p>Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament: This is one of two words used in the OT to express trust or reliance upon, the other being ḥāsâ (q.v.). There is no clear cognate in the other Semitic languages although KB sees a connection with Arabic baṭaḥa "to be stretched out, taut" (cf. especially the VII stem). The basic idea would then have to do with firmness or solidity. Be that as it may, in Hebrew, baṭaḥa expresses that sense of well-being and security which results from having something or someone in whom to place confidence. It is significant that the LXX never translates this word with πιοτευω "believe in" but with ελπιξω "to hope," in the positive sense "to rely on God" or πειφομαι "to be persuaded," for the negative notion for relying on what turns out to be deceptive. This would seem to indicate that bāṭaḥ does not connote that full-orbed intellectual and volitional response to revelation which is involved in "faith," rather stressing the feeling of being safe or secure. Likewise, all the derivatives have the same meaning "to feel secure," "be unconcerned".</p>