חָפָא
châphâʼ · H2644 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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to do things in secret
Literally: to cover; hence: causative action by which humans perform events in such a way that they will not become generally known; associated with evil
Examples2 Kings 17:9 And the sons of Israel did things secretly against the LORD their God which were not right. Moreover, they built for themselves high places in all their towns, from watchtower to fortified city.
How it’s used In 3 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
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בֵּןson 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- דָּבָרword, thing, matter 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- עַלon, upon, over, against+ יְהֹוָהthe LORD, YHWH 1
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 1 word
- סָתַר çâthar · H5641 · to be hidden, to hide oneself
- Both lexemes genuinely overlap in sense—both express concealment/secrecy/hiddenness—and could substitute for each other in contexts of keeping something unknown or hidden.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Non-Know002004002008
- The word denotes doing something secretly or covertly, as in 2 Kings 17:9's account of the sons of Israel doing things secretly against the LORD.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H2644. chapha [חָפָא] verb do secretly (properly cover, = חפה, q. v.); — only Pi`el…
[חָפָא] verb do secretly (properly cover, = חפה, q. v.); — only
Pi`el Imperfect וַיְחַמְּאוּד֗֗֗ברים and they did things secretly 2Ki 17:9.
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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