# batach (בָּטַח)

pronounced: ba-TAKH


**To trust, to rely on — the settled confidence that lets a person lie down and sleep**

## In Scripture

> Rabshakeh said to them, “Say now to Hezekiah, ‘Thus says the great king, the king of Assyria, “What confidence is this in which you trust?
> — 2 Kings 18:19 (The Assyrian envoy mocks Hezekiah’s trust; the verb and the noun bitachon stand side by side.)

> When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
> — Psalm 56:3 (Fear and trust in a single line: the psalmist trusts while still afraid.)


## How to read this entry

The definition comes from the IsraelForYou lexicon. Scripture quotations and their translation are named below; later tradition or modern usage is identified when it appears.


https://israelforyou.com/hebrew/batach/