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Proverbs 28:1
Excerpted from: Speaking With Boldness

Now, when speaking of boldness, the Bible adds further understanding to the quality by what it relates boldness to. In Proverbs 28:1, "the righteous are as bold as a lion." The traits of the lion give us an explanation that being bold is related to fearlessness, courage, and confidence. We can see even more clarification to being bold in the word that is translated here, what it is translated from. The word is Strong's 982, batach. And according to the definition I found in my study Bible, it is, "a verb indicating to trust, to be confident. It expresses the feeling of safety and security that is felt when one can rely on someone or something else."

The word batach is broken into three Hebrew letters, bet, tet, and het. (Hope I did that right.) The author of the article, "What is the Original Hebrew Word Picture of Batach," states the following. "Picture batach, trust, as bet, house representing the family within, tet, basket, to contain or surround, and het, wall, unshakable and everlasting like Mount Zion." See, the author of the article had taken where these letters were used in other scriptural words, and that is how he gave that word picture there. This definition and the breakdown are very interesting considering boldness in Scripture. It differs from what we heard from the world's definitions. Those definitions did not relate boldness to trust. Well, maybe trust in oneself, but this breakdown and this definition relates trust to someone or something else. Even the lions shown in Psalm 104:21 seek their food from God.

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New Covenant Priesthood (Part 5)
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