kachad (to hide) · Rightly

Meaning

To hide, conceal, cut off, cut down, make desolate, kick(Niphal) · (Piel) to cover, hide · (Hiphil)

How it's translated

you hide 6
we will hide 2
it is hidden 2
i have hidden 2
they have hidden 2
and you were destroyed 1
and i will annihilate it 1
you will hide 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Job 7
Psalms 5
Jeremiah 3
Zechariah 3
Exodus 2
1 Samuel 2

13 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Zechariah 11:9In contextThen said I, I will not feed you: that that dieth, let it die; and that that is to be cut off, let it be cut off; and let the rest eat every one the flesh of another.
Zechariah 11:16In contextFor, lo, I will raise up a shepherd in the land, which shall not visit those that be cut off, neither shall seek the young one, nor heal that that is broken, nor feed that that standeth still: but he shall eat the flesh of the fat, and tear their claws in pieces.
Genesis 47:18When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:
Exodus 9:15For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
Exodus 23:23For mine Angel shall go before thee, and bring thee in unto the Amorites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites: and I will cut them off.
Joshua 7:19And Joshua said unto Achan, My son, give, I pray thee, glory to the LORD God of Israel, and make confession unto him; and tell me now what thou hast done; hide it not from me.

All 30 verses, by book

Genesis 1: 47:18
Exodus 2: 9:15 23:23
Joshua 1: 7:19
1 Samuel 2: 3:17 3:18
2 Samuel 2: 14:18 18:13
1 Kings 1: 13:34
2 Chronicles 1: 32:21
Job 7: 4:7 6:10 15:18 15:28 20:12 22:20 27:11
Psalms 5: 40:10 69:5 78:4 83:4 139:15
Isaiah 1: 3:9
Jeremiah 3: 38:14 38:25 50:2
Hosea 1: 5:3
Zechariah 3: 11:8 11:9 11:16

Hebrew dictionary

כָּחַד kachad · to hide

1) to hide, conceal, cut off, cut down, make desolate, kick 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to be hidden 1a2) to be effaced, be destroyed, be cut off 1b) (Piel) to cover, hide 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to hide 1c2) to efface, annihilate

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.