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Strong H42242 sensesמַחֲבֵא

hiding-place · refuge

Transliteration
machăbê' machăbô'
Pronunciation
{makh-ab-ay'} makh-b-o'

The 2 senses of Strong H4224

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H4224 appears in 2 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. hiding-placeH4224Ahiding place1 verse · Isaiah
  2. refugeמַחֲבֹאH4224Bnoun1 verse · 1 Samuel

General definition

From H2244; a refuge: - hiding (lurking) place.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • place2

First verses

  1. 1 Samuel 23:23
    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.
  2. Isaiah 32:2
    And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.