Word study
Hide
13 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: hidden, hide, hid, hiding, hides. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
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How often each original word is translated “hide” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- סָתַר sâtharhide, concealtranslated this way 68 times of its 80 uses · Strong’s H5641Verb · Translated: hide 34, hidden 13, hid 9, hiding 5Full study and all 80 verses →
Genesis 4:14 Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
Exodus 3:6 Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
- חָבָא châbâwithdraw, hidetranslated this way 28 times of its 33 uses · Strong’s H2244Verb · Translated: hid 10, hidden 8, hiding 6, hide 3Full study and all 33 verses →
Genesis 3:8 Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.
Joshua 6:17 Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.
- טָמַן ṭâmanhide, concealtranslated this way 20 times of its 31 uses · Strong’s H2934Verb · Translated: hidden 9, hid 4, hide 4, hiding 2Full study and all 29 verses →
Exodus 2:12 After looking this way and that and seeing no one, he struck down the Egyptian and hid his body in the sand.
Joshua 2:6 (But Rahab had taken them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out there.)
- כָּחַד kâchadhide, effacetranslated this way 12 times of its 32 uses · Strong’s H3582Verb · Translated: hide 8, hidden 4, conceal 3, destroyed 2Full study and all 30 verses →
Genesis 47:18 When that year was over, they came to him the second year and said, “We cannot hide from our lord that our money is gone and all our livestock belongs to you. There is nothing left for our lord except our bodies and our land.
Joshua 7:19 So Joshua said to Achan, “My son, give glory to the LORD, the God of Israel, and make a confession to Him. I urge you to tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me.”
- עָלַם âlamconcealtranslated this way 8 times of its 27 uses · Strong’s H5956Verb · Translated: ignore 5, even if he is unaware 3, hide 3, hidden 3Full study and all 27 verses →
Leviticus 20:4 And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech,
2 Kings 4:27 When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”
- עוֹר ôrskintranslated this way 8 times of its 81 uses · Strong’s H5785Noun · Translated: skin 48, leather 13, skins 7, hide 7Full study and all 72 verses →
Exodus 29:14 But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.
Leviticus 4:11 But the hide of the bull and all its flesh, with its head and legs and its entrails and dung—
- צָפַן tsâphanhide, treasure uptranslated this way 7 times of its 31 uses · Strong’s H6845Verb · Translated: hide 4, hidden 2, concealed 2, treasured 2Full study and all 30 verses →
Exodus 2:2 and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.
Joshua 2:4 But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
- סֵתֶר sêthercovering, hiding-place, secrecytranslated this way 5 times of its 36 uses · Strong’s H5643Noun · Translated: secret 10, secretly 5, hiding place 4, shelter 3Full study and all 36 verses →
Job 40:21 He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds of the marsh.
Psalm 18:11 He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
- מַטְמוֹן maṭmônhidden treasure, treasuretranslated this way 4 times of its 5 uses · Strong’s H4301Noun · Translated: like hidden treasure 2, treasure 1, riches hidden 1, hidden treasure 1Full study and all 5 verses →
Job 3:21 who long for death that does not come, and search for it like hidden treasure,
Proverbs 2:4 if you seek it like silver and search it out like hidden treasure,
- חָבָה châbâhwithdraw, hidetranslated this way 4 times of its 5 uses · Strong’s H2247Verb · Translated: Hide 4, conceal 1Full study and all 5 verses →
Joshua 2:16 “Go to the hill country,” she said, “so that your pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they have returned; then go on your way.”
1 Kings 22:25 Micaiah replied, “You will soon see, on that day when you go and hide in an inner room.”
- יָשַׁב yâshabsit, remain, dwelltranslated this way 3 times of its 1,049 uses · Strong’s H3427Verb · Translated: lived 103, dwell 89, live 84, sit 70Full study and all 960 verses →
Judges 16:9 While the men were hidden in her room, she called out, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings like a strand of yarn seared by a flame. So the source of his strength remained unknown.
1 Samuel 24:3 Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.
- כָּסָה kâsâhcovertranslated this way 2 times of its 150 uses · Strong’s H3680Verb · Translated: covered 51, cover 36, covers 16, covering 9Full study and all 148 verses →
Genesis 18:17 And the LORD said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am about to do?
Psalm 32:5 Then I acknowledged my sin to You and did not hide my iniquity. I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the LORD,” and You forgave the guilt of my sin. Selah
- מִסְתָּר mistârsecret place, hiding placetranslated this way 2 times of its 9 uses · Strong’s H4565Noun · Translated: ambush 2, secret places 2Full study and all 9 verses →
Jeremiah 49:10 But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.
Lamentations 3:10 He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.
Greek words (New Testament)
- κρύπτω krýptōI hide, conceal, lay uptranslated this way 17 times of its 19 uses · Strong’s G2928Verb · Translated: hidden 9, hid 5Full study and all 18 verses →
Matthew 5:14 You are the light of the world. A city on a hill cannot be hidden.
Luke 18:34 But the disciples did not understand any of these things. The meaning was hidden from them, and they did not comprehend what He was saying.
- κρυπτός kryptóshidden, secrettranslated this way 5 times of its 19 uses · Strong’s G2927Adjective · Translated: secret 8, hidden 5, unseen 2, secrets 2Full study and all 16 verses →
Matthew 10:26 So do not be afraid of them. For there is nothing concealed that will not be disclosed, and nothing hidden that will not be made known.
Mark 4:22 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be brought to light.
- ἀποκρύπτω apokrýptōI hide away, concealtranslated this way 4 times of its 4 uses · Strong’s G613Verb · Translated: hidden 3, kept hidden 1Full study and all 4 verses →
Luke 10:21 At that time Jesus rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and declared, “I praise You, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because You have hidden these things from the wise and learned, and revealed them to little children. Yes, Father, for this was well-pleasing in Your sight.
1 Corinthians 2:7 No, we speak of the mysterious and hidden wisdom of God, which He destined for our glory before time began.
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- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
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Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.