To hide
חָבָהStrong’s H2247chavah (cha-vah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Chavah is the Hebrew word usually translated “hide yourselves”, “hide yourself” and “hide themselves”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And she said unto them, Get you to the mountain, lest the pursuers meet you; and hide yourselves there three days, until the pursuers be returned: and afterward may ye go your way.”
Meaning
- To withdraw, hide, hide oneself(Qal) to withdraw · (Niphal) to hide oneself, remain hidden, withdraw
How it's translated
- and you will hide yourselves 1
- to hide yourself 1
- to hide themselves 1
- hide 1
- and it will hide itself 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Joshua 1
- 1 Kings 1
- 2 Kings 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 22:25And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
- 2 Kings 7:12And the king arose in the night, and said unto his servants, I will now shew you what the Syrians have done to us. They know that we be hungry; therefore are they gone out of the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, When they come out of the city, we shall catch them alive, and get into the city.
- Isaiah 26:20Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.
- Jeremiah 49:10But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.
Hebrew dictionary
חָבָה chavah · to hide
1) to withdraw, hide, hide oneself 1a) (Qal) to withdraw 1b) (Niphal) to hide oneself, remain hidden, withdraw
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.