To hide
טָמַןStrong’s H2934taman (ta-man)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taman is the Hebrew word usually translated “hidden”, “have hidden” and “hid”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“And they gave unto Jacob all the strange gods which were in their hand, and all their earrings which were in their ears; and Jacob hid them under the oak which was by Shechem.”
Meaning
- To hide, conceal, bury(Qal) · (Niphal) to hide oneself · (Hiphil) to hide
How it's translated
- hidden 5
- they have hidden 3
- and they hid 2
- people have hidden 2
- he hides 2
- and he hid 1
- and he hid him 1
- hidden of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 7
- Jeremiah 7
- Job 5
- Joshua 3
- Proverbs 2
- Genesis 1
10 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 2:12And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand.
- Deuteronomy 33:19They shall call the people unto the mountain; there they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness: for they shall suck of the abundance of the seas, and of treasures hid in the sand.
- Joshua 2:6But she had brought them up to the roof of the house, and hid them with the stalks of flax, which she had laid in order upon the roof.
- Joshua 7:21When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
- Joshua 7:22So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran unto the tent; and, behold, it was hid in his tent, and the silver under it.
- 2 Kings 7:8And when these lepers came to the uttermost part of the camp, they went into one tent, and did eat and drink, and carried thence silver, and gold, and raiment, and went and hid it; and came again, and entered into another tent, and carried thence also, and went and hid it.
Hebrew dictionary
טָמַן taman · to hide
1) to hide, conceal, bury 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to hide 1a2) hiding, concealing, secretly laying (participle) 1a3) darkness (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to hide oneself 1c) (Hiphil) to hide
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.