Secure

Webster's Dictionary

(1): ( a.) Net exposed to danger; safe; - applied to persons and things, and followed by against or from.

(2): ( a.) Free from fear, care, or anxiety; easy in mind; not feeling suspicion or distrust; confident.

(3): ( a.) Overconfident; incautious; careless; - in a bad sense.

(4): ( a.) Confident in opinion; not entertaining, or not having reason to entertain, doubt; certain; sure; - commonly with of; as, secure of a welcome.

(5): ( v. t.) To make fast; to close or confine effectually; to render incapable of getting loose or escaping; as, to secure a prisoner; to secure a door, or the hatches of a ship.

(6): ( v. t.) To make safe; to relieve from apprehensions of, or exposure to, danger; to guard; to protect.

(7): ( v. t.) To put beyond hazard of losing or of not receiving; to make certain; to assure; to insure; - frequently with against or from, rarely with of; as, to secure a creditor against loss; to secure a debt by a mortgage.

(8): ( v. t.) To get possession of; to make one's self secure of; to acquire certainly; as, to secure an estate.

Vine's Expository Dictionary of NT Words

1: Περικρατής (Strong'S #4031 — Adjective — perikrates — per-ee-krat-ace' )

an adjective, signifies "having full command of" (peri, "around, about," krateo, "to be strong, to rule"); it is used with ginomai, "to become," in  Acts 27:16 , RV, "to secure (the boat)," AV, "to come by."

 Matthew 28:14Care.

King James Dictionary

SECU'RE, a. L. securus.

1. Free from danger of being taken by an enemy that may resist assault or attack. Teh place is well fortified and very secure. Gibraltar is a secure fortress. In this sense, secure is followed by against or from as secure against attack, or from an enemy. 2. Free from danger safe applied to persons with from. 3. Free from fear or apprehension of danger not alarmed not disturbed by fear confident of safety hence, careless of the means of defense. Men are often most in danger when they feel most secure.

Confidence then bore thee on, secure

Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible

Secure . To be secure, in the language of AV [Note: Authorized Version.] , does not mean to be free from danger; it means not to anticipate danger. Thus,   Judges 8:11 ‘Gideon smote the host, for the host was secure.’ The vb. ‘to secure’ occurs in   Matthew 28:14 ‘And if this come to the governor’s ears, we will persuade him, and secure you,’ where the Greek means literally make you free from care, i.e. make it all right for you.