Strong's Definition
a primitive root (compare 2245); to secrete
KJV Usage: X held, hide (self), do secretly
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
חָבָא (cha.va) — to hide. 1) to withdraw, hide 1a) (Niphal) to hide oneself 1b) (Pual) to be forced into hiding 1c) (Hiphil) to hide 1d) (Hophal) to be hidden 1e) (Hithpael) 1e1) to hide oneself, draw back 1e2) to draw together, thicken, harden
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · אֶלְיַחְבָּא
Solid | verb hit | ≈ לכד
to freeze = process by which liquids become solid, ◄ caused by low temperatures during cold weather
verb · חבה · מַחֲבֵא · מַחֲבֹוא · אֶלְיַחְבָּא
Hide | verb nif, verb pu'al, verb hit
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
GEN 3:8 · GEN 3:10 · JOS 2:16 · JOS 10:16 · JOS 10:17 · JOS 10:27 · JDG 9:5 · 1SA 10:22 · 1SA 13:6 · 1SA 14:11 · 1SA 14:22 · 1SA 19:2 · 1SA 23:23 · 2SA 17:9 · 2KI 11:3 · 1CH 21:20 · 2CH 18:24 · 2CH 22:9 · 2CH 22:12 · JOB 24:4 · JOB 29:8 · DAN 10:7 · AMO 9:3
Hide | verb hif, verb hof
to hide (someone) = causative action by which humans cause someone else to go to a location where that person will not be readily seen by others, ► in order to keep that person out of danger or to remove him/her from public life
JOS 6:17 · JOS 6:25 · 1KI 18:4 · 1KI 18:13 · 2KI 6:29 · ISA 42:22
Non-Know | verb nif
to act in secret = action by which humans act in a such a way that other people do not notice
Safe | verb nif, verb hif
to hide, to protect = causative action by which someone keep someone else from (physical or non-physical) harm
Non-Speak | verb nif
Collocation: קֹול חבא
(one's) voice hides > to refrain from speaking literally: to hide oneself (of one's voice); hence: = action by which humans refrain from speaking
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[חָבָא] vb. withdraw, hide (not in Qal) Niph. hide oneself
Pu. have been hidden
Hiph. hide, trans.
Hoph. be hidden
Hithp. draw back, hide oneself
draw together, thicken, harden
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