Strong's Hebrew · H2244

חָבָא

châbâʼ · khaw-baw'

[idiom] held, hide (self), do secretly.

Definition

to secrete

Derivation

a primitive root (compare H2245 (חָבַב));

Appears 33 times in Scripture

Joshua 10:27

At sunset Joshua ordered that they be taken down from the trees and thrown into the cave in which they had hidden. Then large stones were placed against the mouth of the cave, and the stones are there to this day.

Joshua 10:16

Now the five kings had fled and hidden in the cave at Makkedah.

Genesis 3:8

Then the man and his wife heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the breeze of the day, and they hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

Joshua 6:25

And Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and all who belonged to her, because she hid the men Joshua had sent to spy out Jericho. So she has lived among the Israelites to this day.

Genesis 3:10

“I heard Your voice in the garden,” he replied, “and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

Genesis 31:27

Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.

2 Samuel 17:9

Surely by now he is hiding in a cave or some other location. If some of your troops fall first, whoever hears of it will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the troops who follow Absalom.’

Joshua 10:17

And Joshua was informed: “The five kings have been found; they are hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”

Joshua 6:17

Now the city and everything in it must be devoted to the LORD for destruction. Only Rahab the prostitute and all those with her in her house will live, because she hid the spies we sent.

Judges 9:5

He went to his father’s house in Ophrah, and on one stone murdered his seventy brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal. But Jotham, the youngest son of Jerubbaal, survived, because he hid himself.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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