סָתַר
sa.tar
“to hide”
Definition
to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively
a primitive root;
- 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)
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
סָתַר appears 62 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
He said: “I will hide My face from them;I will see what will be their end.For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.
Woe to those who dig deepto hide their plans from the LORD.In darkness they do their works and say,“Who sees us, and who will know?”
The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those places with the corpses of the men I will strike down in My anger and in My wrath. I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness.
by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),
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