חָבָא chava

Hebrew word for “to hide” · Strong’s H2244 · used 33 times in 33 verses

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Meaning

1) to withdraw, hide;

How it is translated

Glosses given for chava in context, with how often each is used:

• hid 5
• hid themselves 3
• hidden 3
• hiding himself 3
• hid himself 2
• hiding themselves 2
• hid myself 1
• did you hide yourself 1
• had hidden themselves 1
• have hidden themselves 1
• who had hidden themselves 1
• will hide yourself 1

Where it is used

Also in 1 more book.

Chapters where it is used most

Joshua 10 (3), Genesis 3 (2), Joshua 6 (2), 1 Samuel 14 (2), 1 Kings 18 (2), 2 Chronicles 22 (2), Job 29 (2), Genesis 31 (1), Judges 9 (1), 1 Samuel 10 (1)

Forms

• נחבא 3
• מתחבא 3
• ואחבא 2
• נחבאו 2
• ויתחבא 1
• נחבאת 1
• החבאתה 1
• החביאה 1
• ויחבאו 1
• נחבאים 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chava more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מְעָרָה mearah “cave” 6
• רָאָה raah “to see” 6
• רָחָב rachav “Rahab” 2
• נָגַד nagad “to tell” 4
• מַקֵּדָה maqqedah “Makkedah” 2
• עֲתַלְיָהוּ atalyah “Athaliah” 2
• מַלְאָךְ maleakh “messenger” 3
• יְהוֹשׁוּעַ yehoshua “Joshua” 3
• אִיזֶבֶל izevel “Jezebel” 2
• חָפַשׂ chaphas “to search” 2
• שָׁם sham “there” 4
• אֶבֶן even “stone” 3

Key verses

The verses using chava that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 3:8 — And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God…
• Genesis 3:10 — And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
• Joshua 6:17 — And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the LORD: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house,…
• 1 Samuel 13:6 — When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in…
• 1 Samuel 23:23 — See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will go with you: and it…
• 1 Kings 18:4 — For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the LORD, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread…
• 1 Kings 18:13 — Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them…
• Job 24:4 — They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
• Isaiah 42:22 — But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for…
• Isaiah 49:2 — And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he hid me;
• Daniel 10:7 — And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled to hide themselves.
• Amos 9:3 — And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea,…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.