חָבָהchâbâh

withdraw, hide

Pronunciation: khaw-bah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H2247

Meanings

Qal: withdraw (Isaiah 26:20)

Niph`al: withdraw, hide oneself (Jeremiah 49:10; Joshua 2:16; 1 Kings 22:25)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 5 times in the Bible.

  • Joshua 2:16 “Escape to the hill country,” she told them. “Hide there for three days from the men searching for you. Then, when they have returned, you can go on your way.”
  • 1 Kings 22:25 And Micaiah replied, “You will find out soon enough when you are trying to hide in some secret room!”
  • 2 Kings 7:12 The king got out of bed in the middle of the night and told his officers, “I know what has happened. The Arameans know we are starving, so they have left their camp and have hidden in the fields. They are expecting us to leave the city, and then they will take us alive and capture the city.”
  • Isaiah 26:20 Go home, my people, and lock your doors! Hide yourselves for a little while until the Lord’s anger has passed.
  • Jeremiah 49:10 But I will strip bare the land of Edom, and there will be no place left to hide. Its children, its brothers, and its neighbors will all be destroyed, and Edom itself will be no more.

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).