Hiding
מִסְתָּרStrong’s H4565mistar (mis-tar)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mistar is the Hebrew word usually translated “hiding places”, “secret places” and “hiding place”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.”
Meaning
- Secret place, hiding placesecret place · hiding place
How it's translated
- in hiding places 4
- in secret places 2
- in hiding place 1
- secret places 1
- hiding places its 1
- in the secret place 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 4
- Jeremiah 3
- Isaiah 1
- Lamentations 1
- Habakkuk 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 10:9He lieth in wait secretly as a lion in his den: he lieth in wait to catch the poor: he doth catch the poor, when he draweth him into his net.
- Psalms 17:12Like as a lion that is greedy of his prey, and as it were a young lion lurking in secret places.
- Psalms 64:4That they may shoot in secret at the perfect: suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.
- Isaiah 45:3And I will give thee the treasures of darkness, and hidden riches of secret places, that thou mayest know that I, the LORD, which call thee by thy name, am the God of Israel.
- Jeremiah 13:17But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD’s flock is carried away captive.
- Jeremiah 23:24Can any hide himself in secret places that I shall not see him? saith the LORD. Do not I fill heaven and earth? saith the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
מִסְתָּר mistar · hiding
1) secret place, hiding place 1a) secret place 1b) hiding place 1b1) for protection 1b2) for perpetration of crime
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hiding” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HI'DING, participle present
tense Concealing; covering or withdrawing from view; keeping close or secret.
All definitions and other forms of “hiding”
HI'DING, noun
Concealment.
- Withdrawment; a withholding; as the hidings of God's face.
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.