סֵ֫תֶר
se.ter
“secrecy”
Definition
a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense)
or (feminine) סִתְרָה; (Deuteronomy [32:38), from H5641 (סָתַר);
- covering, shelter, hiding place, secrecy 1a) covering, cover 1b) hiding place, shelter, secret place 1c) secrecy 1c1) secrecy (of tongue being slanderous)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
סֵ֫תֶר appears 31 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.
which ate the fat of their sacrificesand drank the wine of their drink offerings?Let them rise up and help you;let them give you shelter!
But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.”“Silence,” said the king, and all his attendants left him.
The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight.Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret,I will put to silence;the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart,I will not endure.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.