To hide
חָבָאStrong’s H2244chava (cha-va)
Appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chava is the Hebrew word usually translated “hid themselves”, “hiding himself” and “hid”. It appears in 33 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.”
Meaning
- To withdraw, hide(Niphal) to hide oneself · (Pual) to be forced into hiding · (Hiphil) to hide · (Hophal) to be hidden · (Hithpael)
How it's translated
- and they hid themselves 3
- hiding himself 3
- she hid 2
- and he hid himself 1
- and i hid myself 1
- did you hide yourself 1
- hidden 1
- they had hidden themselves 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 6
- Joshua 5
- Job 5
- Genesis 3
- 2 Chronicles 3
- 1 Kings 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 3:8And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
- Genesis 3:10And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
- Genesis 31:27Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
- Joshua 6:17And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
- Joshua 6:25And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
- Joshua 10:16But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
Hebrew dictionary
חָבָא chava · to hide
1) to withdraw, hide 1a) (Niphal) to hide oneself 1b) (Pual) to be forced into hiding 1c) (Hiphil) to hide 1d) (Hophal) to be hidden 1e) (Hithpael) 1e1) to hide oneself, draw back 1e2) to draw together, thicken, harden
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hide” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HIDE, verb transitive
preterit tense hid; participle passive hid, hidden.
- To conceal; to withhold or withdraw from sight; to place in any state or position in which the view is intercepted from the object.
- To conceal from knowledge; to keep secret.“Tell me now what thou hast done--hide it not from me” Joshua 7:19
- In Scripture, not to confess or disclose; or to excuse and extenuate.“I acknowledged my sin to thee, and my iniquity have I not hid” Psalms 32:5
- To protect; to keep in safety.“In the time of trouble, he shall hide me in his pavilion” Psalms 27:5“The prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself” Proverbs 22:3
All definitions and other forms of “hide”
HIDE, verb intransitive
To lie concealed; to keep one's self out of view; to be withdrawn from sight.
HIDE, noun
In the ancient laws of England, a certain portion of land, the quantity of which however is not well ascertained. Some authors consider it as the quantity that could be tilled with one plow; others, as much as would maintain a family. Some suppose it to be 60, some 80, and others 100 acres.
HIDE, noun
[Latin cutis; Gr. either a peel, from stripping, separating, or a cover.]
- The skin of an animal, either raw or dressed; more generally applied to the undressed skins of the larger domestic animals, as oxen, horses, etc.
- The human skin; in contempt.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.