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Lexicon :: Strong's H2244 - ḥāḇā'

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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׳.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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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 -

And they heard the sound of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool [afternoon breeze] of the day, so the man and his wife hid and kept themselves hidden from the [fn]presence of the LORD God among the trees of the garden.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 3:10 - He said, “I heard the sound of You [walking] in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked; so I hid myself.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 31:27

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 31:27 - “Why did you run away secretly and deceive me and not tell me, so that [otherwise] I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with [music on the] tambourine and lyre?

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:17 - “The city and everything that is in it shall be under the ban [that is, designated to be destroyed as a form of tribute] to the LORD; only Rahab the prostitute and all [the people] who are with her in her house shall [be allowed to] live, because she hid and protected the messengers (scouts) whom we sent.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 6:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 6:25 - So Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute, with her father’s household and everything that she had; and she has lived among Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers (scouts) whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:16 -

Now these five [Amorite] kings fled and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:17 - And Joshua was told, “The five kings have been found and are hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jos 10:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 10:27 - At sunset Joshua gave a command, and they took the bodies down from the trees and threw them into the cave where the kings had hidden themselves, and placed large stones over the mouth of the cave, [where they remain] to this very day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 9:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:5 - Then he went to his father’s house at Ophrah and murdered his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, [in a public execution] on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left alive, because he had hidden himself.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 10:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 10:22 - So they inquired further of the LORD, “Has the man come here yet?” And the LORD answered, “He is there, hiding himself by the [fn]provisions and supplies.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 13:6

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:6 - When the men of Israel saw that they were in a tight situation (for their troops were hard-pressed), they hid in caves, in thickets, in cellars, and in [dry] cisterns (pits).

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:11

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:11 - When both of them revealed themselves to the garrison of the Philistines, the Philistines said, “Look, the Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they have hidden themselves.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 14:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:22 - When all the men of Israel who had hidden themselves in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines had fled, they too pursued them closely in the battle.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 19:2

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 19:2 - So he told David, “Saul my father is seeking to kill you. Now then, please be on guard in the morning, and stay in a secret place and hide yourself.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 23:23

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 23:23 - “So look, and take note of all the places where he hides and come back to me with the established facts, then I will go with you. If he is [anywhere] in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 17:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:9 - “Behold, he has hidden himself [even] now in one of the ravines or in another place; and when some of [fn]your troops fall at the first attack, whoever hears about it will say, ‘There has been a defeat among the people who follow Absalom.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:4

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:4 - for when Jezebel destroyed the prophets of the LORD, Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water.)

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 18:13

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:13 - “Has it not been told to my lord [Elijah] what I did when Jezebel killed the prophets of the LORD, how I hid a hundred of the LORD’S prophets by fifties in a cave, and provided them with bread and water?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 6:29

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:29 - “So we cooked my son and ate him. The next day I said to her, ‘Give your son so that we may eat him’; but she had hidden her son.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 11:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 11:3 - Joash was hidden with his nurse in the house (temple) of the LORD for six years, while Athaliah reigned over the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 21:20

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 21:20 - Now Ornan was threshing wheat, and he turned back and saw the angel; and his four sons who were with him hid themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 18:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 18:24 - Micaiah said, “Behold, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room [desperately trying] to hide yourself.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 22:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:9 - Jehu also searched for Ahaziah, who was hiding in Samaria; he was captured, brought to Jehu, and put to death. They buried him, for they said, “After all, he is the grandson of Jehoshaphat, who sought the LORD with all his heart.” So the house of Ahaziah had no one left to retain the power to rule over the kingdom.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 22:12

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 22:12 - Joash was hidden with them in the house (temple) of God for six years, and Athaliah reigned over the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 5:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 5:21 -

“You will be hidden from the scourge of the tongue,

And you will not be afraid of destruction when it comes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 24:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 24:4 -

“They crowd the needy off the road;

The poor of the land all hide themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:8 -

The young men saw me and hid themselves,

The aged arose and stood [respectfully];

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 29:10 -

The voices of the nobles were hushed,

And their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 38:30

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“Water becomes like stone [and hides itself],

And the surface of the deep is frozen and imprisoned.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:22

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But this is a people despoiled and plundered;

All of them are trapped in holes,

Or are hidden away in prisons.

They have become a prey with no one to rescue them,

And a spoil, with no one to say, “Give them back!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 49:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:2 -

He has made My mouth like a sharp sword,

In the shadow of His hand He has kept Me hidden;

And He has made Me a sharpened arrow,

In His quiver He has hidden Me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Dan 10:7

Unchecked Copy BoxDan 10:7 - And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision [of this heavenly being], for the men who were with me did not see the vision; nevertheless, a great panic overwhelmed them, so they ran away to hide themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Amo 9:3

Unchecked Copy BoxAmo 9:3 -

“Though they hide on the summit of [Mount] Carmel,

I will track them down and take them from there;

And though they hide from My sight on the floor of the sea,

From there I shall command the serpent and it will bite them.

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