{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2244",
  "lemma": "חָבָא",
  "transliteration": "châbâʼ",
  "definition": "to secrete",
  "kjv": "[idiom] held, hide (self), do secretly.",
  "occurrences": 33,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[חָבָא] vb. withdraw, hide (not in Qal)",
    "Niph. hide oneself",
    "Pu. have been hidden",
    "Hiph. hide, trans.",
    "Hoph. be hidden",
    "Hithp.",
    "1. draw back, hide oneself",
    "2. draw together, thicken, harden"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 3:8",
      "text": "They heard the LORD God’s voice walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and the man and his wife hid themselves…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 3:10",
      "text": "The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Genesis 31:27",
      "text": "Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 6:17",
      "text": "The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/6?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 6:25",
      "text": "But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/6?v=25"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 10:16",
      "text": "These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/10?v=16"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 10:17",
      "text": "Joshua was told, saying, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/10?v=17"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 10:27",
      "text": "At the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and threw them into…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/10?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 9:5",
      "text": "He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 10:22",
      "text": "Therefore they asked of the LORD further, “Is there yet a man to come here?” The LORD answered, “Behold, he has hidden…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/10?v=22"
    }
  ],
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