# H2244 חָבָא

חָבָא (châbâʼ), Strong’s H2244: to secrete KJV: [idiom] held, hide (self), do secretly.. Occurs 33 times.

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*châbâʼ* — to secrete

KJV: [idiom] held, hide (self), do secretly.

Occurs 33 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 3:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=8) — 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…
- [Genesis 3:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=10) — The man said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; so I hid myself.”
- [Genesis 31:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/31?v=27) — Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with…
- [Joshua 6:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/6?v=17) — The city shall be devoted, even it and all that is in it, to the LORD. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and…
- [Joshua 6:25](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/6?v=25) — But Rahab the prostitute, her father’s household, and all that she had, Joshua saved alive. She lives in the middle of…
- [Joshua 10:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/10?v=16) — These five kings fled, and hid themselves in the cave at Makkedah.
- [Joshua 10:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/10?v=17) — Joshua was told, saying, “The five kings have been found, hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”
- [Joshua 10:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/10?v=27) — At the time of the going down of the sun, Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and threw them into…
- [Judges 9:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/9?v=5) — He went to his father’s house at Ophrah, and killed his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, being seventy persons, on one…
- [1 Samuel 10:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/10?v=22) — Therefore they asked of the LORD further, “Is there yet a man to come here?” The LORD answered, “Behold, he has hidden…