Hebrew verb · H6845
צָפַן
tsaphantsaw-fan'
to treasure
32 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: tsâphan
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6845is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 9 of 39Old Testament books
- 29spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6845
to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk
The King James renders it: esteem, hide(-den one, self), lay up, lurk (be set) privily, (keep) secret(-ly, place).
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
tsaphan is rendered "to treasure". It stands 32 times in the Hebrew text, across nine books.
- Nine of the uses stand in Proverbs, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 2:2and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-nine different ways.
The first use
and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.
Exodus 2:2וַֽתִּצְפְּנֵ֖הוּ
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
- they lie hidden3
- and she hid him2
- he stores up2
- you will treasure2
- and stored up1
- and treasured your1
- for treasured his1
- have they been stored up1
- he hides1
- he will conceal me1
- hide her1
- I have hidden1
and 15 more, 32 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.
All 32, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
29 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
- צָפַ֣נְתָּ2
- צָפַ֥נְתִּי2
- תִּצְפֹּ֥ן2
- הַצְּפִינוֹ֒1
- וְצָפ֥וּן1
- וּֽצְפוּנְךָ֮1
- וַֽתִּצְפְּנֵ֖הוּ1
- וַֽתִּצְפְּנ֑וֹ1
- יִצְפּ֗וֹנוּ1
- יִצְפֹּ֣ן1
- יִצְפֹּן־1
- יִ֝צְפְּנ֗וּ1
and 17 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural4HVqi3mp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular3HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular3HVqp2ms
- Hc/Vqw3fs/Sp3ms2Hc/Vqw3fs/Sp3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural2HVNp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular2HVqi2ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVqi3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular1HC/Vqsmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Vqsmsc/Sp2ms
- preposition + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Vqsmpc/Sp3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HVhcc/Sp3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HVhi2ms/Sp1bs
Exodus
two uses
and she conceived and gave birth to a son. When she saw that he was a beautiful child, she hid him for three months.
- וַֽתִּצְפְּנֵ֖הוּvatitzpenehuHc/Vqw3fs/Sp3mstagged: and she hid him
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
- הַצְּפִינוֹ֒hatzefinoverb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to hide him
Joshua
one use
But the woman had taken the two men and hidden them. So she said, “Yes, the men did come to me, but I did not know where they had come from.
- וַֽתִּצְפְּנ֑וֹvatitzpenoHc/Vqw3fs/Sp3mstagged: and she hid him
Job
eight uses
Yet You concealed these things in Your heart, and I know that this was in Your mind:
- צָפַ֣נְתָּtzafantaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you hid
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!
- תַּצְפִּנֵ֗נִיtatzpineniverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: you will hide me
A wicked man writhes in pain all his days; only a few years are reserved for the ruthless.
- נִצְפְּנ֥וּnitzpenuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been stored up
You have closed their minds to understanding; therefore You will not exalt them.
- צָפַ֣נְתָּtzafantaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have kept
Total darkness is reserved for his treasures. A fire unfanned will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.
- לִצְפּ֫וּנָ֥יוlitzpunavpreposition + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: for treasured his
It is said that God lays up one’s punishment for his children. Let God repay the man himself, so he will know it.
- יִצְפֹּן־yitzpon-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he stores up
I have not departed from the command of His lips; I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my daily bread.
- צָפַ֥נְתִּיtzafantiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have treasured up
“Why does the Almighty not reserve times for judgment? Why may those who know Him never see His days?
- נִצְפְּנ֣וּnitzpenuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: have they been stored up
Psalms
eight uses
He lies in wait near the villages; in ambush he slays the innocent; his eyes watch in stealth for the helpless.
- יִצְפֹּֽנוּ׃yitzponuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they lie hidden
from such men, O LORD, by Your hand— from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.
- וּֽצְפוּנְךָ֮utzefinekhaconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and treasured your
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.
- יִצְפְּנֵ֨נִי׀yitzpeneniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: he will conceal me
How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!
- צָפַ֪נְתָּtzafantaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have stored up
You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
- תִּצְפְּנֵ֥םtitzpenemverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you hide them
They conspire, they lurk, they watch my steps while they wait to take my life.
- יִצְפּ֗וֹנוּyitzponuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they lie hidden
With cunning they scheme against Your people and conspire against those You cherish,
- צְפוּנֶֽיךָ׃tzefuneikhaverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: treasured your
I have hidden Your word in my heart that I might not sin against You.
- צָפַ֣נְתִּיtzafantiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have hidden
Proverbs
nine uses
If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
- נִצְפְּנָ֖הnitzpenahverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: let us lie hidden
But they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own lives.
- יִ֝צְפְּנ֗וּyitzpenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they lie hidden
My son, if you accept my words and hide my commandments within you,
- תִּצְפֹּ֥ןtitzponverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will treasure
He stores up sound wisdom for the upright; He is a shield to those who walk with integrity,
- יִצְפֹּ֣ןvetzafanverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he stores up
My son, keep my words and treasure my commandments within you.
- תִּצְפֹּ֥ןtitzponverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will treasure
The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool invites destruction.
- יִצְפְּנוּ־yitzpenu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they store up
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.
- וְצָפ֥וּןvetzafunconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singulartagged: and stored up
restraining her is like holding back the wind or grasping oil with one’s right hand.
- צֹפְנֶ֥יהָtzofeneihaverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: hide her
- צָֽפַן־tzafan-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he hides
Song of Solomon
one use
The mandrakes send forth a fragrance, and at our door is every delicacy, new as well as old, that I have treasured up for you, my beloved.
- צָפַ֥נְתִּיtzafantiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have stored up
Jeremiah
one use
For My eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from My face, and their guilt is not concealed from My eyes.
- נִצְפַּ֥ןnitzpanverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been concealed
Ezekiel
one use
I will turn My face away from them, and they will defile My treasured place. Violent men will enter it, and they will defile it.
- צְפוּנִ֑יtzefuniverb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: treasured my
Hosea
one use
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is stored up.
- צְפוּנָ֖הtzefunahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: stored up
The letters
Gematria 220· 870 mispar gadol
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 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.
