חָבָאchâbâʼ

withdraw, hide

Pronunciation: khaw-baw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2244

Meanings

Niph`al: hide oneself (Judges 9:5; 1 Samuel 10:22; 2 Samuel 17:9)

Pu`al: have been hidden, = are made to hide themselves (Job 24:4)

Hiph`il: hide (Isaiah 49:2; Joshua 6:17; 1 Kings 18:4)

Hoph`al: be hidden, i.e. imprisoned (Isaiah 42:22)

Hithpa`el

1. draw back, hide oneself (Genesis 3:8; 1 Samuel 13:6; 1 Samuel 14:11)

2. draw together, thicken, harden (Job 38:30)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 33 times in the Bible.

Genesis 3:8 When the cool evening breezes were blowing, the man and his wife heard the Lord God walking about in the garden. So they hid from the Lord God among the trees.
Genesis 3:10 He replied, “I heard you walking in the garden, so I hid. I was afraid because I was naked.”
Genesis 31:27 Why did you slip away secretly? Why did you deceive me? And why didn’t you say you wanted to leave? I would have given you a farewell feast, with singing and music, accompanied by tambourines and harps.
Joshua 6:17 Jericho and everything in it must be completely destroyed as an offering to the Lord. Only Rahab the prostitute and the others in her house will be spared, for she protected our spies.
Joshua 6:25 So Joshua spared Rahab the prostitute and her relatives who were with her in the house, because she had hidden the spies Joshua sent to Jericho. And she lives among the Israelites to this day.
Joshua 10:16 During the battle the five kings escaped and hid in a cave at Makkedah.

See every passage

Genesis 3:8, 3:10, 31:27
Joshua 6:17, 6:25, 10:16, 10:17, 10:27
Judges 9:5
1 Samuel 10:22, 13:6, 14:11, 14:22, 19:2, 23:23
2 Samuel 17:9
1 Kings 18:4, 18:13
2 Kings 6:29, 11:3
1 Chronicles 21:20
2 Chronicles 18:24, 22:9, 22:12
Job 5:21, 24:4, 29:8, 29:10, 38:30
Isaiah 42:22, 49:2
Daniel 10:7
Amos 9:3

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).