חָבָה
châbâh · H2247 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences
Meanings
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to hide oneself
Action by which humans go to a location where they will not be readily seen by others, in order to be safe from danger or to attack someone else
Examples1 Kings 22:25 And Micaiah said, “Behold, you are going to see how on that day when you go from one inner room to another trying to hide yourself.”
2 Kings 7:12 Then the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “I will now tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know that we are hungry; so they have left the camp to hide themselves in the field, saying, ‘When they come out of the city, we will capture them alive and get into the city.’”
Isaiah 26:20 Come, my people, enter your rooms And close your doors behind you; Hide for a little while Until indignation runs its course.
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
3 occurrences in 2 groups
- Not stated (infinitive) 2
- Not stated: you (one person) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with+ שָׂדֶהfield, countryside 1
- כlike/as+ רֶגַעmoment 1
What is done to itIt is the object
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- יָכֹלto be able to 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 5 words
- טָמַן ṭâman · H2934 · to hide oneself, to hide
- Both words denote concealing or hiding oneself, and could be substituted for each other in context.
- חָבָא châbâʼ · H2244 · to freeze, to hide oneself
- Both lexemes denote concealment/hiding actions with nearly identical glosses ("hide (self)"). This is genuine same-language near-synonymy—two distinct Hebrew roots expressing the same core action.
- חָפַשׂ châphas · H2664 · to search, to examine, to look for
- Both include hiding among their senses—חָבָה (châbâh, H2247) "to hide oneself," חָפַשׂ (châphas, H2664) "to hide, disguise oneself" (among broader senses of searching)—overlapping directly in the sense of concealment.
- עָלַם ʻâlam · H5956 · to go into hiding, hypocrite
- Both center on the action of hiding or concealment; עָלַם (ʻâlam, H5956) also extends to senses of blindness, ignorance, or unwillingness, but its core "hide" sense overlaps directly with חָבָה (châbâh, H2247)'s primary meaning.
- צָפַן tsâphan · H6845 · to lurk, to lie in wait, to ambush
- Both words center on hiding or concealing, חָבָה (châbâh, H2247) meaning “to hide oneself” and צָפַן (tsâphan, H6845) “to hide, keep secret, lay up.”
In the other Testament 1 word
- κρύπτω krýptō · G2928 · to keep safe, to cause to be protected, to protect
- Greek κρύπτω renders Hebrew חָבָה in contexts of hiding or concealment, with both terms denoting the action of covering or making something (including oneself) hidden from view.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Hide002002001010
- חָבָה denotes hiding oneself, as Micaiah warns Ahab's false prophet that he will try to hide in an inner room, and the Arameans hide in the field to ambush Samaria.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2247. chabah [חָבָה] verb withdraw, hide, compare חבא; — Qal Imperative masculine…
[חָבָה] verb withdraw, hide, compare חבא; —
Qal Imperative masculine singular חֲבִי Isa 26:20 (Aramaic form, Ol§ 235, 3 Ew§ 224.c Du; Di reads חֲבֵּי = חֲבֵה), withdraw into privacy (|| בַחֲדָרֶיךָ בּאֹ).
Niph`al Perfect וְנֶחְבָּה consecutive Jer 49:10; לְנַחְבֵּתֶם consecutive Jos 2:16 (JE); Infinitive לְהֵחָבֵה (as א׳׳ל) 1Ki 22:25; 2Ki 7:12; withdraw, hide oneself, literal Josh 216 (JE), followed by שָׁמָּה; 2Ki 7:12 with בְּ local; 1Ki 22:25; of Esau = Edom, hiding from judgment of יוּכָּ֑ל לֹא וְנֶחְבָּה ׳י, Jer 49:10, as pointed, meant no doubt as perfect, but construction then hard; read rather infinitive absolute נַחְבֹּה; so Gf Gie and others (see Köi. 624).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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