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Lexicon :: Strong's H2244 - ḥāḇā'

Aa
חָבָא
Transliteration
ḥāḇā'
Pronunciation
khaw-baw'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root [compare חָבַב (H2245)]
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TWOT Reference: 588

Strong’s Definitions

חָבָא châbâʼ, khaw-baw'; a primitive root (compare H2245); to secrete:—× held, hide (self), do secretly.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 33x

The KJV translates Strong's H2244 in the following manner: hide (31x), held (1x), secretly (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 33x
The KJV translates Strong's H2244 in the following manner: hide (31x), held (1x), secretly (1x).

  1. to withdraw, hide

    1. (Niphal) to hide oneself

    2. (Pual) to be forced into hiding

    3. (Hiphil) to hide

    4. (Hophal) to be hidden

    5. (Hithpael)

      1. to hide oneself, draw back

      2. to draw together, thicken, harden

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
חָבָא châbâʼ, khaw-baw'; a primitive root (compare H2245); to secrete:—× held, hide (self), do secretly.
STRONGS H2244: Abbreviations
† [חָבָא] verb withdraw, hide (not in Qal); compare also חבה (Late Hebrew id.; Arabic خَبَأَ; Ethiopic ኀብአ፡ Assyrian ḫabû DlPr 175; Targum Ethpa. hide oneself) —
Niph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular נֶחְבָּא Judges 9:5 + 1 Samuel 10:22; 2 Samuel 17:9 (both may be participle); נַחְבֵּאתָ Genesis 31:37; וְנַחְ׳ consecutive 1 Samuel 19:2; נֶחְבְּאוּֿ Joshua 10:27; נֶחְבָּ֑אוּ Job 29:8, 10; Imperfect 2nd person masculine singular תֵּחָבֵא Job 5:21; Infinitive construct הֵחָבֵא 2 Chronicles 18:24; Daniel 10:7; Participle plural (compare also above) נֶחְבְּאִים Joshua 10:17, etc. — hide oneself in fear Genesis 3:10 (J), Joshua 10:16, 17, 27 (all J E), Judges 9:5; 1 Samuel 19:2; 2 Samuel 17:9; Amos 9:3; 2 Chronicles 18:24; Daniel 10:7; from modesty 1 Samuel 10:22; compare Job 29:8; also לָ֫מָּה נַחְבֵּאתָ לִבְרֹחַ Genesis 31:27 (E), i.e. why didst thou flee secretly? passive, be hidden Job 29:10 קול נְגִידִים נְחְבָ֑אוּ (|| ולשׁונם לְחִכָּם דָּבֵ֑קָה, compare also see 9) i.e. in reverence, = hushed (so we speak of a veiled voice); be hidden for protection בִּשׁוֺט לָשׁוֺן Job 5:21.
Pu. Perfect 3rd person plural חֻבְּאוּ have been hidden (= are made to hide themselves, Di on the passage) Job 24:4.
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person masculine singular suffix הֶחְבִּיאָ֑נִי Isaiah 49:2; 3rd person feminine singular הֶחְבְּאַ֔תָֹה Joshua 6:17, compare Ges§ 75, Rem. 21 a Köi. 624 ff. etc.; Imperfect וַיַּחְבִּיאֵם 1 Kings 18:4; 3rd person feminine singular וַתַּחְבִּא 2 Kings 6:29; וָאַחְבִּא 1 Kings 18:13; — hide, transitive, with accusative Joshua 6:17, 25; 1 Kings 18:4, 13; 2 Kings 6:29; metaphor, of divine protection Isaiah 49:2 בְּצֵל יָדוֺ ה׳.
Hoph. Perfect be hidden הָחְבָּ֑אוּ Isaiah 42:22 (בְּבָתֵּי כלאים), i.e. imprisoned.
Hithp. Perfect הִתְחַבְּאוּ 1 Samuel 14:11; Imperfect יִתְחַבֵּא 1 Samuel 23:23; וַיִּתְ׳ Genesis 3:8; יִתְחַבָּ֑אוּ Job 38:30; וַיִּתְחַבְּאוּ 1 Samuel 13:6; Participle מִתְחַבֵּא 2 Kings 11:3 + 2 times; מִתְחַבְּאִים 1 Samuel 14:22; 1 Chronicles 21:20; —
1. draw back, hide oneself, usually with בְּ local; Genesis 3:8 (J), 1 Samuel 13:6; 1 Samuel 14:11, 22; 1 Samuel 23:23; 2 Kings 11:3; 1 Chronicles 21:20; 2 Chronicles 22:9, 12.
2. draw together, thicken, harden, of water becoming ice Job 38:30 כאבן מים יִתְחַ׳.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:8; 3:8; 3:10; 31:27; 31:37

Joshua

6:17; 6:17; 6:25; 10:16; 10:17; 10:17; 10:27; 10:27

Judges

9:5; 9:5

1 Samuel

10:22; 10:22; 13:6; 13:6; 14:11; 14:11; 14:22; 14:22; 19:2; 19:2; 23:23; 23:23

2 Samuel

17:9; 17:9

1 Kings

18:4; 18:4; 18:13; 18:13

2 Kings

6:29; 6:29; 11:3; 11:3

1 Chronicles

21:20; 21:20

2 Chronicles

18:24; 18:24; 22:9; 22:12

Job

5:21; 5:21; 24:4; 29:8; 29:8; 29:10; 29:10; 38:30; 38:30

Isaiah

42:22; 49:2; 49:2

Daniel

10:7; 10:7

Amos

9:3

H2244

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Strong's Number H2244 matches the Hebrew חָבָא (ḥāḇā'),
which occurs 33 times in 33 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:8 - And there came to them the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the evening wind: and the man and his wife went to a secret place among the trees of the garden, away from the eyes of the Lord God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:10 - And he said, Hearing your voice in the garden I was full of fear, because I was without clothing: and I kept myself from your eyes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:27 - Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17 - And the town will be put to the curse, and everything in it will be given to the Lord: only Rahab, the loose woman, and all who are in the house with her, will be kept safe, because she kept secret the men we sent.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:25 - But Joshua kept Rahab, the loose woman, and her father's family and all she had, from death, and so she got a living-place among the children of Israel to this day; because she kept safe the men whom Joshua had sent to make a search through the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:16 - But these five kings went in flight secretly to a hole in the rock at Makkedah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:17 - And word was given to Joshua that the five kings had been taken in a hole in the rock at Makkedah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:27 - And when the sun went down, they were taken down from the trees, by Joshua's orders, and put into the hole where they had gone to be safe; and great stones were placed at the mouth of the hole, where they are to this day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:5 - Then he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and put his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, to death on the same stone; however, Jotham, the youngest, kept himself safe by going away to a secret place.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:22 - So they put another question to the Lord, Is the man present here? And the answer of the Lord was, He is keeping himself from view among the goods.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, (for the people were troubled,) they took cover in cracks in the hillsides and in the woods and in rocks and holes and hollows.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:11 - And they let the Philistine force see the two of them: and the Philistines said, Look! the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have taken cover.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:22 - And all the men of Israel who had taken cover in the hill-country of Ephraim, hearing that the Philistines had been put to flight, went after them, attacking them.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:2 - And Jonathan said to David, Saul, my father, is purposing your death: so now, take care in the morning, and keep yourself safe in a secret place:

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:23 - So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:9 - But he will certainly have taken cover now in some hole or secret place; and if some of our people, at the first attack, are overcome, then any hearing of it will say, There is destruction among the people who are on Absalom's side.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4 - For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.)

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13 - Has my lord not had word of what I did when Jezebel was putting the Lord's prophets to death? how I kept a hundred of them in a secret hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:29 - So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:3 - And for six years she kept him safe in the house of the Lord, while Athaliah was ruling over the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:20 - And Ornan, turning back, saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him went to a secret place. Now Ornan was crushing his grain.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:24 - And Micaiah said, Truly, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to keep yourself safe.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:9 - And he went in search of Ahaziah; and when they came where he was, (for he was in a secret place in Samaria,) they took him to Jehu and put him to death; then they put his body to rest in the earth, for they said, He is the son of Jehoshaphat, whose heart was true to the Lord. So the family of Ahaziah had no power to keep the kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:12 - And she kept him safe with her in the house of God for six years, while Athaliah was ruling the land.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:21 - He will keep you safe from the evil tongue; and you will have no fear of wasting when it comes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:4 - The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:8 - The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:10 - The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 38:30 - The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:22 - But this is a people whose property has been taken away from them by force; they are all taken in holes, and shut up in prisons: they are made prisoners, and no one makes them free; they are taken by force and no one says, Give them back.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:2 - And he has made my mouth like a sharp sword, in the shade of his hand he has kept me; and he has made me like a polished arrow, keeping me in his secret place;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:7 - And I, Daniel, was the only one who saw the vision, for the men who were with me did not see it; but a great shaking came on them and they went in flight to take cover.

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Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:3 - Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:
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