מַחֲבֵא
machăbêʼ · H4224 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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hiding-place
Location where one can not be readily seen by others; and where one considers oneself safe from danger
ExamplesIsaiah 32:2 Each will be like a refuge from the wind And a shelter from the storm, Like streams of water in a dry country, Like the shade of a huge rock in an exhausted land.
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
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- רוּחַspirit, wind 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- חָבָאto hide oneself, to hide 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- מִןfrom 3
- כlike/as 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
- סֵתֶר çêther · H5643 · cover, shelter, disguise
- Both words denote places of hiding or concealment, referring to physical locations for concealment.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Hide002002001010
- מַחֲבֵא names a hiding or lurking place, as in 1 Samuel 23:23's search for David "in all the hiding places where he hides himself."
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4224. machabe ' מַחֲבֵא noun [masculine] hiding-place, only construct זֶרֶם וְסֵתֶר…
' מַחֲבֵא noun [masculine] hiding-place, only construct זֶרֶם וְסֵתֶר רוּחַ כְּמַחֲבֵא Isa 32:2 hiding-place from wind.
[מַחֲבֹא] noun [masculine] id., plural absolute שׁם יתחבא אשׁר הַמַּחֲבֹאִים מִכֹּל 1Sa 23:23.
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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