Strong H5641סָתַר

to hide

Transliteration
sâthar
Pronunciation
saw-thar'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

A primitive root; to hide (by {covering}) literally or figuratively: - be {absent} keep {close} {conceal} hide ({self}) (keep) {secret} X surely.

Detailed definition

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)

In the Bible

Strong H5641 appears in 79 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • hide40
  • hid21
  • hideth5
  • secret3
  • close2
  • hidest2
  • wherefore2
  • thou2
  • absent1
  • conceal1
  • will1

First verses

  1. Genesis 4:14
    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.
  2. Genesis 31:49
    And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
  3. Exodus 3:6
    Moreover 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.
  4. Numbers 5:13
    And 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;
  5. Deuteronomy 7:20
    Moreover the Lord thy God will send the hornet among them, until they that are left, and hide themselves from thee, be destroyed.
  6. Deuteronomy 29:29
    The 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.
  7. Deuteronomy 31:17
    Then 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?
  8. Deuteronomy 31:18
    And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
  9. Deuteronomy 32:20
    And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.
  10. 1 Samuel 20:2
    And he said unto him, God forbid; thou shalt not die: behold, my father will do nothing either great or small, but that he will shew it me: and why should my father hide this thing from me? it is not so.
  11. 1 Samuel 20:5
    And David said unto Jonathan, Behold, to morrow is the new moon, and I should not fail to sit with the king at meat: but let me go, that I may hide myself in the field unto the third day at even.
  12. 1 Samuel 20:19
    And when thou hast stayed three days, then thou shalt go down quickly, and come to the place where thou didst hide thyself when the business was in hand, and shalt remain by the stone Ezel.
  13. 1 Samuel 20:24
    So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat meat.
  14. 1 Samuel 23:19
    Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
  15. 1 Samuel 26:1
    And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
  16. 1 Kings 17:3
    Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.
  17. 2 Kings 11:2
    But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.
  18. 2 Chronicles 22:11
    But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons that were slain, and put him and his nurse in a bedchamber. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of king Jehoram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest, (for she was the sister of Ahaziah,) hid him from Athaliah, so that she slew him not.
  19. Job 3:10
    Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
  20. Job 3:23
    Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?
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