alam (to conceal)

Meaning

To conceal, hide, be hidden, be concealed, be secret(Qal) secret (participle) · (Niphal) · (Hiphil) to conceal, hide · (Hithpael) to hide oneself

How it's translated

and it will be hidden 5
and you will hide yourself 2
hidden 2
certainly 1
they will hide 1
to hide yourself 1
so i may hide 1
he has hidden 1

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

Where it's used most

Leviticus 5
Psalms 4
Deuteronomy 3
Job 3
Isaiah 2
Numbers 1

15 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Leviticus 5:2Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
Leviticus 5:3Or if he touch the uncleanness of man, whatsoever uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty.
Leviticus 5:4Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
Leviticus 20:4And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
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 22:1Thou shalt not see thy brother’s ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

All 27 verses, by book

Leviticus 5: 4:13 5:2 5:3 5:4 20:4
Numbers 1: 5:13
Deuteronomy 3: 22:1 22:3 22:4
1 Samuel 1: 12:3
1 Kings 1: 10:3
2 Kings 1: 4:27
2 Chronicles 1: 9:2
Job 3: 6:16 28:21 42:3
Psalms 4: 10:1 26:4 55:1 90:8
Proverbs 1: 28:27
Ecclesiastes 1: 12:14
Isaiah 2: 1:15 58:7
Lamentations 1: 3:56
Ezekiel 1: 22:26
Nahum 1: 3:11

Hebrew dictionary

עָלַם alam · to conceal

1) to conceal, hide, be hidden, be concealed, be secret 1a) (Qal) secret (participle) 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be concealed 1b2) concealed, dissembler (participle) 1c) (Hiphil) to conceal, hide 1d) (Hithpael) to hide oneself

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “conceal” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

CONCEAL, verb transitive

[Latin To withhold from sight,; G., To conceal and to heal; the primary sense is to strain, hold, stop, restrain, make fast or strong, all from the same root as the Shemitic.]

To keep close or secret; to forbear to disclose; to withhold from utterance or declaration; as, to conceal ones thoughts or opinions.“I have not concealed the words of the Holy One” Job 6:10
To hide; to withdraw from observation; to cover or keep from sight.“What profit is it if we slay our brother and conceal his blood?” Genesis 37:26

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.