Asphaleia means “certainty” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H803 — ashuyah (“foundation”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G803 ἀσφάλεια (asphaleia) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. asphaleia (as-fal'-ei-ah) n. 1. security {literally or figuratively} It has 20 linked Bible usages across 13 books. Visible English usage signals include safety and certainty. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
asphaleia (as-fal'-ei-ah) n. 1. security {literally or figuratively} [from G804] KJV: certainty, safety Root(s): G804
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security
Usage: ἀσφάλεια, -ας, ἡ (ἀσφαλής), [in LXX for בָּטַח, etc. ;] __1. firmness. __2. certainty: Luk.1:4. __3. security: Act.5:23, 1Th.5:3. (In π. it is used as a law-term, proof, security; see MM, see word; M, Th., l.with)† (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render asphaleia, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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Strong's G803 (ἀσφάλεια) appears 17 times in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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3 indexed usages in New Testament.
That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
8 indexed usages in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
And your threshing time shall overtake the vintage, and your vintage shall overtake your seed time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full; and ye shall dwell safely upon your land, and war shall not go through your land.
And ye shall go over Jordan, and shall dwell in the land, which the Lord our God takes as an inheritance for you; and he shall give you rest from all your enemies round about, and ye shall dwell safely.
Who establishes the earth on her sure foundation: It shall not be moved forever.
9 indexed usages in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
for I was ashamed to ask the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for safeguard against our adversaries.
So shall all nations praise the Lord, and his people shall confess God, and the Lord shall exalt his people; and all those which love the Lord God in truth and justice shall rejoice, showing mercy to our brethren.
but he placed Jews therein, and fortified it for the safety of the country and the city, and raised up the walls of Jerusalem.
First 20 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G803.
And your threshing time shall overtake the vintage, and your vintage shall overtake your seed time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full; and ye shall dwell safely upon your land, and war shall not go through your land.
And ye shall go over Jordan, and shall dwell in the land, which the Lord our God takes as an inheritance for you; and he shall give you rest from all your enemies round about, and ye shall dwell safely.
Who establishes the earth on her sure foundation: It shall not be moved forever.
Counsel and safety are mine: Prudence is mine, and strength is mine.
A bad man does harm wherever he meets a just man: And he hates the sound of safety.
Therefore many among them shall be weak, and fall, and be crushed; and they shall draw nigh, and men shall be taken securely.
For thus said the Lord to me, There shall be security in my city, as the light of noonday heat, and it shall be as a cloud of dew in the day of harvest.
There has the hedgehog made its nest, and the earth has safely preserved its young: there have the deer met, and seen one another’s faces.
That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.
Saying, The prison truly found we shut with all safety, and the keepers standing without before the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.
for I was ashamed to ask the king footmen, and horsemen, and conduct for safeguard against our adversaries.
So shall all nations praise the Lord, and his people shall confess God, and the Lord shall exalt his people; and all those which love the Lord God in truth and justice shall rejoice, showing mercy to our brethren.
but he placed Jews therein, and fortified it for the safety of the country and the city, and raised up the walls of Jerusalem.
They then called upon the Almighty Lord to keep the things committed of trust safe and sure for those that had committed them.
Now when Apollonius the son of Menestheus was sent into Egypt for the coronation of King Ptolemy Philometor, Antiochus, understanding him not to be well affected to his affairs, provided for his own safety: whereupon he came to Joppa, and from thence to Jerusalem:
As for me, I was weak, or else I would have remembered kindly your honor and good will. Returning out of Persia, and being taken with a grievous disease, I thought it necessary to care for the common safety of all:
But Nicanor, hearing that Judas and his company were in the strong places about Samaria, resolved without any danger to set upon them on the Sabbath day.
Thus he armed every one of them, not so much with defense of shields and spears, as with comfortable and good words: and beside that, he told them a dream worthy to be believed, as if it had been so indeed, which did not a little rejoice them.
The underlings appointed for the purpose went out about eventide and bound the hands of the miserable victims, and took other precautions for their security at night, thinking that the whole race would perish together.
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Asphaleia (Strong's G803) is a Greek word most simply glossed "certainty". asphaleia (as-fal'-ei-ah) n. 1. security {literally or figuratively}
This page currently indexes 20 linked usages for Strong's G803 across 13 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G803 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament, Septuagint / Greek Old Testament, and Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as safety and certainty. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 8 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament and 9 in Deuterocanonical / Apocrypha for Strong's G803, with linked reader references where each row is available.