Hebrew verb · H5641
סָתַר
satharsaw-thar'
to hide
80 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çâthar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5641is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 18 of 39Old Testament books
- 70spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5641
to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively
The King James renders it: be absent, keep close, conceal, hide (self), (keep) secret, [idiom] surely.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
sathar is rendered "to hide". It stands 80 times in the Hebrew text, across eighteen books.
- Twenty-two of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 4:14Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
- The Greek text spells it seventy different ways.
The first use
Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
Genesis 4:14אֶסָּתֵ֑ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- you hide6
- do you hide3
- I hid3
- I will hide3
- it is hidden3
- and I hid2
- he has hidden2
- he hides himself2
- hidden2
- hide2
- hiding himself2
- you will hide me2
and 48 more, 80 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| סָתַם | satham | to close | Uses14 |
The words it stands beside
All 80, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
70 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַסְתֵּ֣ר3
- וָאַסְתִּ֥ר2
- נִסְתָּֽרָה׃2
- נִסְתְּר֖וּ2
- תַסְתִּ֑יר2
- תַּסְתִּ֖יר2
- תַּ֭סְתִּירֵנִי2
- תַּסְתֵּ֬ר2
- תַּסְתֵּ֣ר2
- אַסְתִּ֤יר1
- אַסְתִּ֥יר1
- אַסְתִּ֤ירָה1
and 58 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular5HVhi2ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singular5HVhj2ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular4HVNp3fs
- verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolute3HVhaa
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular3HVhi2ms/Sp1bs
- verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular3HVhp1cs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVNi3ms
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singular3HVtrmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singular2HC/Vhj3ms
- Hc/Vhw1cs2Hc/Vhw1cs
- Hc/Vhw3ms2Hc/Vhw3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular2HVhi1cs
Genesis
two uses
Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
- אֶסָּתֵ֑רʾesaterverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will be hidden
It was also called Mizpah, because Laban said, “May the LORD keep watch between you and me when we are absent from each other.
- נִסָּתֵ֖רnisaterverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will be hidden
Exodus
one use
Then He said, “I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.” At this, Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.
- וַיַּסְתֵּ֤רvaiyasterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and he hid
Numbers
one use
by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),
- וְנִסְתְּרָ֖הvenisterahHc/VNq3fstagged: and she will be undiscovered
Deuteronomy
six uses
Moreover, the LORD your God will send the hornet against them until even the survivors hiding from you have perished.
- וְהַנִּסְתָּרִ֖יםvehanistarimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: and who hide themselves
The secret things belong to the LORD our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, so that we may follow all the words of this law.
- הַ֨נִּסְתָּרֹ֔תhanistarotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: the hidden
On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
- וְהִסְתַּרְתִּ֨יvehistartiHc/Vhq1cstagged: and I will hide
And on that day I will surely hide My face because of all the evil they have done by turning to other gods.
- הַסְתֵּ֨רhasterverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to hide
- אַסְתִּ֤ירʾastirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will hide
He said: “I will hide My face from them; I will see what will be their end. For they are a perverse generation—children of unfaithfulness.
- אַסְתִּ֤ירָהʾastirahverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will hide
1 Samuel
six uses
“Far from it!” Jonathan replied. “You will not die. Indeed, my father does nothing, great or small, without telling me. So why would he hide this matter from me? This cannot be true!”
- יַסְתִּ֨ירyastirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he hide
So David told him, “Look, tomorrow is the New Moon, and I am supposed to dine with the king. Instead, let me go and hide in the field until the third evening from now.
- וְנִסְתַּרְתִּ֣יvenistartiHc/VNq1cstagged: and I will hide myself
When you have stayed three days, hurry down to the place you hid on the day this trouble began, and remain beside the stone Ezel.
- נִסְתַּ֥רְתָּnistartaverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you hid yourself
So David hid in the field, and when the New Moon had come, the king sat down to eat.
- וַיִּסָּתֵ֥רvaiyisaterHc/VNw3mstagged: and he hid himself
Then the Ziphites came up to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah south of Jeshimon?
- מִסְתַּתֵּ֨רmistaterverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: hiding himself
Then the Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah and said, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, opposite Jeshimon?”
- מִסְתַּתֵּר֙mistaterverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: hiding himself
1 Kings
one use
“Leave here, turn eastward, and hide yourself by the Brook of Cherith, east of the Jordan.
- וְנִסְתַּרְתָּ֙venistartaHc/VNq2mstagged: and you will hide yourself
2 Kings
one use
But Jehosheba daughter of King Joram, the sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered. She put him and his nurse in a bedroom to hide him from Athaliah, and he was not killed.
- וַיַּסְתִּ֧רוּvaiyastiruHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they hid
2 Chronicles
one use
But Jehoshabeath daughter of King Jehoram took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him away from among the sons of the king who were being murdered, and she put him and his nurse in a bedroom. Because Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Jehoram and the wife of Jehoiada the priest, was Ahaziah’s sister, she hid Joash from Athaliah so that she could not kill him.
- וַתַּסְתִּירֵ֡הוּvatastirehuHc/Vhw3fs/Sp3mstagged: and she hid him
Job
eight uses
For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.
- וַיַּסְתֵּ֥רvaiyasterHc/Vhw3mstagged: and it hid
Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
- נִסְתָּ֑רָהnistarahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is hidden
Only grant these two things to me, so that I need not hide from You:
- אֶסָּתֵֽר׃ʾesaterverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will hide myself
Why do You hide Your face and consider me as Your enemy?
- תַסְתִּ֑ירtastirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: do you hide
If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
- תַּ֭סְתִּירֵנִיtastireniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you will conceal me
It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.
- נִסְתָּֽרָה׃nistarahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has been hidden
There is no darkness or deep shadow where the workers of iniquity can hide.
- לְהִסָּ֥תֶרlehisaterpreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to hide themselves
But when He remains silent, who can condemn Him? When He hides His face, who can see Him? Yet He watches over both man and nation,
- וְיַסְתֵּ֣רveyasterconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and he may hide
Psalms
twenty-two uses
He says to himself, “God has forgotten; He hides His face and never sees.”
- הִסְתִּ֥ירhistirverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has hidden
How long, O LORD? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
- תַּסְתִּ֖ירtastirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you hide
Keep me as the apple of Your eye; hide me in the shadow of Your wings
- תַּסְתִּירֵֽנִי׃tastireniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you will hide me
it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.
- נִ֝סְתָּ֗רnistarverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: hidden
Who can discern his own errors? Cleanse me from my hidden faults.
- מִֽנִּסְתָּר֥וֹתministarotpreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: from hidden
For He has not despised or detested the torment of the afflicted. He has not hidden His face from him, but has attended to his cry for help.
- הִסְתִּ֣ירhistirverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has hidden
For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
- יַ֭סְתִּרֵנִיyastireniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he will hide me
Hide not Your face from me, nor turn away Your servant in anger. You have been my helper; do not leave me or forsake me, O God of my salvation.
- תַּסְתֵּ֬רtasterverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you hide
O LORD, You favored me; You made my mountain stand strong. When You hid Your face, I was dismayed.
- הִסְתַּ֥רְתָּhistartaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you hid
You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
- תַּסְתִּירֵ֤ם׀tastiremverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you hide them
O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
- נִסְתָּֽרָה׃nistarahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is hidden
Why do You hide Your face and forget our affliction and oppression?
- תַסְתִּ֑ירtastirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: do you hide
Hide Your face from my sins and blot out all my iniquities.
- הַסְתֵּ֣רhasterverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: hide
For it is not an enemy who insults me; that I could endure. It is not a foe who rises against me; from him I could hide.
- וְאֶסָּתֵ֥רveesaterHC/VNu1cstagged: then I may hide myself
Hide me from the scheming of the wicked, from the mob of workers of iniquity,
- תַּ֭סְתִּירֵנִיtastireniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you will hide me
Hide not Your face from Your servant, for I am in distress. Answer me quickly!
- תַּסְתֵּ֣רtasterverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you hide
Why, O LORD, do You reject me? Why do You hide Your face from me?
- תַּסְתִּ֖ירtastirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: do you hide
How long, O LORD? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath keep burning like fire?
- תִּסָּתֵ֣רtisaterverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you hide yourself
Do not hide Your face from me in my day of distress. Incline Your ear to me; answer me quickly when I call.
- תַּסְתֵּ֬רtasterverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you hide
When You hide Your face, they are terrified; when You take away their breath, they die and return to dust.
- תַּסְתִּ֥ירtastirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you hide
I am a stranger on the earth; do not hide Your commandments from me.
- תַּסְתֵּ֥רtasterverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you hide
Answer me quickly, O LORD; my spirit fails. Do not hide Your face from me, or I will be like those who descend to the Pit.
- תַּסְתֵּ֣רtasterverb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you hide
Proverbs
five uses
The prudent see danger and take cover, but the simple keep going and suffer the consequences.
- וְנִסְתָּ֑רveyisaterHc/VNq3mstagged: and he hides himself
It is the glory of God to conceal a matter and the glory of kings to search it out.
- הַסְתֵּ֣רhasterverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: to conceal
Better an open rebuke than love that is concealed.
- מְסֻתָּֽרֶת׃mesutaretverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: hidden
The prudent see danger and take cover; but the simple keep going and pay the penalty.
- נִסְתָּ֑רnistarverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he hides himself
When the wicked come to power, people hide themselves; but when they perish, the righteous flourish.
- יִסָּתֵ֣רyisaterverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he hides himself
Isaiah
fourteen uses
I will wait for the LORD, who is hiding His face from the house of Jacob. I will put my trust in Him.
- הַמַּסְתִּ֥ירhamastirthe definite article (“the”) + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: who is hiding
“Give us counsel; render a decision. Shelter us at noonday with shade as dark as night. Hide the refugees; do not betray the one who flees.
- סַתְּרִי֙sateriverb · intensive (piel), command · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: hide
For you said, “We have made a covenant with death; we have fashioned an agreement with Sheol. When the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not touch us, because we have made lies our refuge and falsehood our hiding place.”
- נִסְתָּֽרְנוּ׃ סnistarenuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have hidden ourselves
Therefore I will again confound these people with wonder upon wonder. The wisdom of the wise will vanish, and the intelligence of the intelligent will be hidden.”
- תִּסְתַּתָּֽר׃ סtistatarverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will hide itself
Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
- לַסְתִּ֣רlastirpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to hide
Why do you say, O Jacob, and why do you assert, O Israel, “My way is hidden from the LORD, and my claim is ignored by my God”?
- נִסְתְּרָ֤הnisterahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is hidden
Truly You are a God who hides Himself, O God of Israel, the Savior.
- מִסְתַּתֵּ֑רmistaterverb · reflexive (hithpael), participle · masculine singulartagged: hides himself
He made My mouth like a sharp sword; He hid Me in the shadow of His hand. He made Me like a polished arrow; He hid Me in His quiver.
- הִסְתִּירָֽנִי׃histiraniverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he concealed me
I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
- הִסְתַּ֔רְתִּיhistartiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I hid
In a surge of anger I hid My face from you for a moment, but with everlasting kindness I will have compassion on you,” says the LORD your Redeemer.
- הִסְתַּ֨רְתִּיhistartiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I hid
I was enraged by his sinful greed, so I struck him and hid My face in anger; yet he kept turning back to the desires of his heart.
- הַסְתֵּ֣רhasterverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive absolutetagged: I hid
But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.
- הִסְתִּ֧ירוּhistiruverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have hidden
No one calls on Your name or strives to take hold of You. For You have hidden Your face from us and delivered us into the hand of our iniquity.
- הִסְתַּ֤רְתָּhistartaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have hidden
Whoever invokes a blessing in the land will do so by the God of truth, and whoever takes an oath in the land will swear by the God of truth. For the former troubles will be forgotten and hidden from My sight.
- נִסְתְּר֖וּnisteruverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they will be hidden
Jeremiah
five uses
For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.
- נִסְתְּר֖וּnisteruverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been hidden
“Can a man hide in secret places where I cannot see him?” declares the LORD. “Do I not fill the heavens and the earth?” declares the LORD.
- יִסָּתֵ֨רyisaterverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he hide himself
The Chaldeans are coming to fight and to fill those places with the corpses of the men I will strike down in My anger and in My wrath. I have hidden My face from this city because of all its wickedness.
- הִסְתַּ֤רְתִּיhistartiverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have hidden
Then the officials said to Baruch, “You and Jeremiah must hide yourselves and tell no one where you are.”
- הִסָּתֵ֖רhisaterverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: hide yourself
Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.
- וַיַּסְתִּרֵ֖םvaiyastiremHc/Vhw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he hid them
Ezekiel
three uses
And the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.
- וָאַסְתִּ֥רvaastirHc/Vhw1cstagged: and I hid
I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and transgressions, and I hid My face from them.
- וָאַסְתִּ֥רvaastirHc/Vhw1cstagged: and I hid
And I will no longer hide My face from them, for I will pour out My Spirit on the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”
- אַסְתִּ֥ירʾastirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will hide
Hosea
one use
I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from Death. Where, O Death, are your plagues? Where, O Sheol, is your sting? Compassion is hidden from My eyes.
- יִסָּתֵ֥רyisaterverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be hidden
Amos
one use
Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.
- יִסָּ֨תְר֜וּyisateruverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will hide themselves
Micah
one use
Then they will cry out to the LORD, but He will not answer them. At that time He will hide His face from them because of the evil they have done.
- וְיַסְתֵּ֨רveyasterconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and he will hide
Zephaniah
one use
Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.
- תִּסָּ֣תְר֔וּtisateruverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will be hidden
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
