To hide
סָתַרStrong’s H5641satar (sa-tar)
Appears in 80 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Satar is the Hebrew word usually translated “hide”, “hiding himself” and “it is hidden”. It appears in 80 verses of the Old Testament.
“Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.”
Meaning
- To hide, conceal(Niphal) · (Piel) to hide carefully · (Pual) to be hidden carefully, be concealed · (Hiphil) to conceal, hide · (Hithpael) to hide oneself carefully
How it's translated
- you hide 6
- i will hide 3
- hiding himself 3
- it is hidden 3
- do you hide 3
- i hid 3
- he has hidden 2
- you will hide me 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 23
- Isaiah 14
- Job 8
- 1 Samuel 6
- Deuteronomy 5
- Proverbs 5
18 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 31:49And Mizpah; for he said, The LORD watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
- Exodus 3:6Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
- Numbers 5:13And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
- Deuteronomy 7:20Moreover the LORD thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 29:29The secret things belong unto the LORD our God: but those things which are revealed belong unto us and to our children for ever, that we may do all the words of this law.
- Deuteronomy 31:17Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
All 80 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
סָתַר satar · to hide
1) to hide, conceal 1a) (Niphal) 1a1) to hide oneself 1a2) to be hidden, be concealed 1b) (Piel) to hide carefully 1c) (Pual) to be hidden carefully, be concealed 1d) (Hiphil) to conceal, hide 1e) (Hithpael) to hide oneself carefully Aramaic equivalent: se.tar (סְתַר "to hide" H5642A)
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.