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צָפַן H6845

H6845 is the Hebrew word צָפַן, transliterated tsâphan and said tsaw-fan'. The King James Version most often renders it hide.

Word: צָפַןTransliteration: tsâphanSaid: tsaw-fan'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 28 verses

What it means

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

Where it comes from

a primitive root.

How the King James Version translates it

Across 22 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

hide 5×hid 3×layeth up 3×hidden 2×laid up 2×child she hid 1×things hast thou hid 1×wouldest hide 1×hast hid 1×secret places 1×esteemed 1×privily set 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: esteem, hide(-den one, self), lay up, lurk (be set) privily, (keep) secret(-ly, place).

Verses using צָפַן

All 28 verses, quoted in full.

Exodus 2:2 · KJV

And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

Exodus 2:3 · KJV

And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.

Joshua 2:4 · KJV

And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:

Job 10:13 · KJV

And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.

Job 14:13 · KJV

O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!

Job 15:20 · KJV

The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.

Job 17:4 · KJV

For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.

Job 20:26 · KJV

All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

Job 21:19 · KJV

God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.

Job 23:12 · KJV

Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Job 24:1 · KJV

Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?

Psalm 10:8 · KJV

He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.

Psalm 27:5 · KJV

For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.

Psalm 31:19 · KJV

Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

Psalm 31:20 · KJV

Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.

Psalm 56:6 · KJV

They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.

Psalm 119:11 · KJV

Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

Proverbs 1:11 · KJV

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Proverbs 1:18 · KJV

And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.

Proverbs 2:1 · KJV

My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

Proverbs 2:7 · KJV

He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.

Proverbs 7:1 · KJV

My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.

Proverbs 10:14 · KJV

Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

Proverbs 13:22 · KJV

A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.

Proverbs 27:16 · KJV

Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

Song of Solomon 7:13 · KJV

The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

Jeremiah 16:17 · KJV

For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

Ezekiel 7:22 · KJV

My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.

Common questions

What does Strong's H6845 mean?

H6845 is the Hebrew word צָפַן (tsâphan), meaning to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk.

How is H6845 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it hide (5 times), hid (3 times), layeth up (3 times), hidden (2 times), laid up (2 times), among others.

How many times does H6845 appear in the Bible?

צָפַן (tsâphan) is tagged in 28 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H6845 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: a primitive root.

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