צָפַן tsaphan

Hebrew word for “to treasure” · Strong’s H6845 · used 32 times in 31 verses

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Meaning

1) to hide, treasure, treasure or store up;

How it is translated

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

• hid 3
• lie hidden 3
• hide 2
• stores up 2
• will treasure 2
• stored up 2
• will hide 1
• which they have been stored up 1
• have kept 1
• treasured things 1
• have treasured up 1
• have they been stored up 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Exodus 2 (2), Psalms 31 (2), Proverbs 1 (2), Proverbs 2 (2), Joshua 2 (1), Job 10 (1), Job 14 (1), Job 15 (1), Job 17 (1), Job 20 (1)

Forms

• צפנת 3
• צפנתי 3
• יצפנו 3
• נצפנו 2
• יצפן 2
• תצפן 2
• ותצפנהו 1
• הצפינו 1
• ותצפנו 1
• תצפנני 1

Words used with it

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

• סָתַר satar “to hide” 4
• אֵמֶר emer “word” 3
• מִצְוָה mitsvah “commandment” 3
• יָדַע yada “to know” 4
• סֵתֶר seter “secrecy” 2
• אָרַב arav “to ambush” 2
• נָקִי naqi “innocent” 2
• הֵמָּה hemmah “they(masc.)” 3
• חֹק choq “statute” 2
• נֶגֶד neged “before” 2
• אֵת et “with” 3
• שָׂפָה saphah “lips” 2

Key verses

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

• Job 23:12 — Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
• Job 24:1 — Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
• Psalms 17:14 — From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid they are full of…
• Psalms 27:5 — For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
• Psalms 31:19 — Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
• Psalms 31:20 — Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
• Psalms 56:6 — They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
• Psalms 119:11 — Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
• Proverbs 1:11 — If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
• Proverbs 2:1 — My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
• Proverbs 13:22 — A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
• Jeremiah 16:17 — For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

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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.