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Confidence:

kon'-fi-dens (baTach, and forms, kecel; parrhesia; peitho, pepoithesis, hupostasis): The chief Hebrew word translated "confidence" (baTach, and its forms) means, perhaps, radically, "to be open," showing thus what originated the idea of "confidence"; where there was nothing hidden a person felt safe; it is very frequently rendered "trust." In Ps 118:8,9 we have "It is better to take refuge in Yahweh than to put confidence in princes," and in 65:5, "O God of our salvation, thou that art the confidence (mibhTach) of all the ends of the earth." MibhTach is translated "confidence" in Job 18:14; 31:24; Pr 21:22, etc.

Kecel ("firmness," "stoutness") is rendered "confidence" in Pr 3:26, and kiclah in Job 4:6; peitho ("to persuade") is translated "confidence" in 2Co 2:3; Ga 5:10, etc.; pepoithesis, in 2Co 1:15; 8:22, etc.; hupostasis ("what stands under"), in 2Co 11:17; Heb 3:14; 2Co 9:4; parrhesia ("out- spokenness," "boldness") is invariably translated in the Revised Version (British and American) "boldness" (Ac 28:31; Heb 3:6; 4:16; 10:35; 1Jo 2:28; 3:21; 5:14); tharseo or tharrheo ("to have good courage") is so translated in the Revised Version (British and American), "being therefore always of good courage" (2Co 5:6); "I am of good courage concerning you" (2Co 7:16), the King James Version "confident" and "confidence." Revised Version has "confidence" for "hope" (Job 8:14); for "assurance" (Isa 32:17); for "trust" (2Co 3:4); for "same confident boasting" (2Co 9:4); "is confident" for "trusted" (Job 40:23); "to have confidence" for "thinketh that he hath whereof he might trust" (Php 3:4); "confidently" for "constantly" (Ac 12:15); "confidently affirm" for "affirm" (1Ti 1:7); conversely, we have for "his confidence" (Job 18:14), "wherein he trusteth," for "with confidence" (Eze 28:26) "securely therein."

The Bible teaches the value of confidence (Isa 30:15; Heb 10:35), but neither in "gold" (Job 31:24), nor in man, however great (Ps 118:8,9; Jer 17:5), nor in self as revealed in Christ (Eph 3:12; 1Jo 5:13,14). (Pr 14:16; Php 3:3), but in God (Ps 65:5; Pr 3:26; 14:26),

Written by W. L. Walker

Nave's Topical Bible

Confidence: Betrayed

INSTANCES OF:

Joshua, by the Gibeonites,

Jos 9:3-15.

Eglon, by Ehud,

Jdg 3:15-23.

Ahimelech, by David,

1Sa 21:1-9.

Abner, by Joab,

2Sa 3:27.

Amasa, by Joab,

2Sa 20:9, 10.

The worshipers of Baal, by Jehu,

2Ki 10:18-28.

See BETRAYAL

Confidence: False

Deu 29:18, 19; 1Ki 20:11; 2Ki 18:21; Isa 36:6; Job 11:20; 15:31; 29:18; Psa 10:6; 20:7, 8; 30:6; 33:16, 17; 36:2; 44:6; 49:6, 7; 52:7; 60:11; 108:12; Pro 14:16; 16:25; 18:11; 23:4; 26:12; 28:26; 29:26; Isa 2:22; 5:21; 8:12; 9:9, 10; 20:5; 22:11; 28:15, 18; 30:1, 2, 5, 7, 10, 15, 16; 31:1, 3; 47:7, 8, 10; 56:12; 57:13; Jer 2:13, 18, 22, 23, 37; 3:23; 5:17; 6:14; 7:8; 8:11; 12:5; 14:13; 17:5; 21:13; 23:17; 48:7, 11; 49:4, 5; Lam 4:17; Eze 8:12; 13:10, 11; 29:6, 7; 30:8; Hsa 5:13; 7:9-16; 10:13; 12:1; 14:3; Amo 6:1-7, 13; 9:10; Oba 1:3; Mic 3:11; Zep 1:12; 2:15; Zec 4:6; Mat 25:5; 26:33-35; Mar 10:24; 14:29-31; Luk 11:35; 12:19, 20; 17:26-30; 18:9-14; 22:33, 34; Jhn 5:45; 13:37, 38; Rom 2:3; 12:16; 1Cr 3:21; 2Cr 1:9; Gal 6:7, 8; 1Th 5:3; 1Ti 6:17; Jam 4:13-15; Rev 18:7, 8

See BLINDNESS, SPIRITUAL; CONCEIT.

Confidence: Instances Of

Builders of Babel,

Gen 11:4.

Saul,

1Sa 13:8-14.

Sennacherib,

2Ki 19:23.

Asa,

2Ch 16:7-9.

Hezekiah,

Isa 22:11.

Jonah,

Jon 1:3-5.

Peter,

Mat 26:33-35; Luk 22:33, 34.

Paul,

Phl 1:25; 2:23, 24.