# H6845 צָפַן

צָפַן (tsâphan), Strong’s H6845: to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk KJV: esteem…

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*tsâphan* — to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk

KJV: esteem, hide(-den one, self), lay up, lurk (be set) privily, (keep) secret(-ly, place).

Occurs 31 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- צָפַן vb. hide, treasure up
- Qal
- 1 trans. hide
- 2 intrans. lie hid, lurk
- Niph. be hidden from before
- Hiph. hide

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 2:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=2) — The woman conceived and bore a son. When she saw that he was a fine child, she hid him three months.
- [Exodus 2:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/2?v=3) — When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put…
- [Joshua 2:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/2?v=4) — The woman took the two men and hid them. Then she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I didn’t know where they came…
- [Jeremiah 16:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/16?v=17) — For my eyes are on all their ways. They are not hidden from my face. Their iniquity isn’t concealed from my eyes.
- [Ezekiel 7:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/7?v=22) — I will also turn my face from them, and they will profane my secret place. Robbers will enter into it, and profane it.
- [Hosea 13:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/hosea/13?v=12) — The guilt of Ephraim is stored up. His sin is stored up.
- [Psalms 10:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/10?v=8) — He lies in wait near the villages. From ambushes, he murders the innocent. His eyes are secretly set against the…
- [Psalms 27:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/27?v=5) — For in the day of trouble, he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the secret place of his tabernacle, he will…
- [Psalms 31:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/31?v=20) — Oh how great is your goodness, which you have laid up for those who fear you, which you have worked for those who take…
- [Psalms 31:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/31?v=21) — In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling…
