Secret
לָאטStrong’s H3814lat
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lat is the Hebrew word usually translated “enchantments their” and “secrecy”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then Pharaoh also called the wise men and the sorcerers: now the magicians of Egypt, they also did in like manner with their enchantments.”
Meaning
- Secrecy, mysterysecrecy, secretly · mystery, enchantment
How it's translated
- by enchantments their 1
- in secrecy 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
- Judges 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
לָאט lat · secret
1) secrecy, mystery 1a) secrecy, secretly 1b) mystery, enchantment
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “secret” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SE'CRET, adjective.
[Latin secretus. This is given as the participle of secerno, but is radically a different word. The radical sense of seg is to separate, as in Latin seco, to cut off; and not improbably this word is contracted into the Latin se, a prefix in segrego, separo, etc.]
- Properly, separate; hence, hid; concealed from the notice or knowledge of all persons except the individual or individuals concerned.“I have a secret errand to thee, O king” Judges 3:19
- Unseen; private; secluded; being in retirement.
- Removed from sight; private; unknown.
- Keeping secrets; faithful to secrets entrusted; as secret Romans. [Unusual.]
All definitions and other forms of “secret”
- Private; affording privacy.
- Occult; not seen; not apparent; as the secret operations of physical causes.
- Known to God only.“Secret things belong to the Lord our God” Deuteronomy 29:29
SE'CRET, noun.
[Latin secretum]
- Something studiously concealed.“A talebearer revealeth secrets” Proverbs 11:13
- A thing not discovered and therefore not known.“Hast thou heard the secret of God?” Job 15:8
- Secrets, plural, The parts which modesty and propriety require to be concealed.“Bread eaten in secret is pleasant” Proverbs 9:17
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.