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Trust
King James Dictionary
or TRUST, n.
1. Confidence a reliance or resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship or other sound principle of another person.
He that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. Proverbs 29
2. He or that which is the ground of confidence.
O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth. Psalms 71
3. Charge received in confidence.
Reward them well, if they observe their trust.
4. That which is committed to one's care. Never violate a sacred trust.
5. Confident opinion of any event.
His trust was with th' Eternal to be deem'd
Equal in strength.
6. Credit given without examination as, to take opinions on trust.
7. Credit on promise of payment, actual or implied as, to take or purchase goods on trust.
8. Something committed to a person's care for use or management, and for which an account must be rendered. Every man's talents and advantages are a trust committed to him by his Maker, and for the use or employment of which he is accountable.
9. Confidence special reliance on supposed honesty.
10. State of him to whom something is entrusted.
I serve him truly, that will put me in trust.
11. Care management. 1 Timothy 6
12. In law, an estate, devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will of another an estate held for the use of another.
TRUST, To place confidence in to rely on. We cannot trust those who have deceived us.
He that trusts every one without reserve, will at last be deceived.
1. To believe to credit.
Trust me, you look well.
2. To commit to the care of, in confidence. Trust your Maker with yourself and all your concerns.
3. To venture confidently.
Fool'd by thee, to trust thee from my side.
4. To give credit to to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment. The merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods to the value of millions.
It is happier to be sometimes cheated, than not to trust.
TRUST, To be confident of something present or future.
I trust to come to you, and speak face to face. 2 John 1:12 .
We trust we have a good conscience. Hebrews 13
1. To be credulous to be won to confidence.
Well, you may fear too far--
Safer than trust too far.
To trust in, to confide in to place confidence in to rely on a use frequent in the Scriptures.
Trust in the Lord, and do good. Psalms 37
They shall be greatly ashamed that trust in graven images. Isaiah 42
To trust to, to depend on to have confidence in to rely on.
The men of Israel--trusted to the liars in wait. Judges 20 .
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Trust'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/t/trust.html.
