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Strong's #949: bebaios (pronounced beb'-ah-yos)

from the base of 939 (through the idea of basality); stable (literally or figuratively):--firm, of force, stedfast, sure.




Thayer's Greek Lexicon:

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bebaios

1) stable, fast, firm

2) metaphorically sure, trusty

Part of Speech: adjective

Relation: from the base of G939 (through the idea of basality)

Citing in TDNT: 1:600, 103




Usage:

This word is used 9 times:

Romans 4:16: "grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed;"
2 Corinthians 1:7: "hope of you is steadfast, knowing, that as ye are"
Hebrews 2:2: "by angels was steadfast, and every transgression and"
Hebrews 3:6: "the rejoicing of the hope firm unto the end."
Hebrews 3:14: "we hold the beginning of our confidence steadfast unto the end;"
Hebrews 6:19: "both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within"
Hebrews 9:17: "For a testament is of force after men are dead: otherwise it is of no strength at all"
2 Peter 1:10: "calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never"
2 Peter 1:19: "We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well"









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