Strong's Hebrew · H2247
H2247 châbâh
חָבָה
khaw-bah'
to hide
Looking for Greek G2247 hēlos? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H2247. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
châbâh appears 5 times in Scripture, in Joshua, 1 Kings, 2 Kings, Isaiah and Jeremiah. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
to secrete
In the King James Version
hide (self).
Derivation
a primitive root (compare H2245 (חָבַב));
Appears 5 times in Scripture
“Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.”
“But I will strip Esau bare; I will uncover his hiding places, and he will be unable to conceal himself. His descendants will be destroyed along with his relatives and neighbors, and he will be no more.”
“So the king got up in the night and said to his servants, “Let me tell you what the Arameans have done to us. They know we are starving, so they have left the camp to hide in the field, thinking, ‘When they come out of the city, we will take them alive and enter the city.’””
“Micaiah replied, “You will soon see, on that day when you go and hide in an inner room.””
““Go to the hill country,” she said, “so that your pursuers will not find you. Hide yourselves there for three days until they have returned; then go on your way.””
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
