Strong's Hebrew · H2247

חָבָה

châbâh · khaw-bah'

hide (self).

Definition

to secrete

Derivation

a primitive root (compare H2245 (חָבַב));

Appears 5 times in Scripture

Isaiah 26:20

Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. Hide yourselves a little while until the wrath has passed.

Jeremiah 49:10

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.

2 Kings 7:12

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.’”

1 Kings 22:25

Micaiah replied, “You will soon see, on that day when you go and hide in an inner room.”

Joshua 2:16

“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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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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