Hiding-place
מַחֲבֵאStrong’s H4224machave (ma-cha-ve)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Machave is the Hebrew word usually translated “hiding places” and “like a hiding place of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all the thousands of Judah.”
Meaning
- Hiding place
How it's translated
- the hiding places 1
- like a hiding place of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Samuel 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַחֲבֵא machave · hiding-place
hiding place Another spelling of ma.cha.bo (מַחֲבֹא "refuge" H4224B)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hidingplace” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HI'DING-PLACE, noun
A place of concealment.
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.