satar · hide

What it means

satar (סָתַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hide”.

Conceal; be hidden.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To put someone or something out of sight, to keep it safe or to flee.
2. "Hide the face": withdraw favor.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To hide, conceal; in a reflexive form, to hide oneself. To ‘hide the face’ is to withdraw favor or attention. BDB: to hide, by covering; literally or figuratively. Of the same root is סֵתֶר, “hiding place”.

• Hiding from someone Genesis 4:141 Kings 17:3
• Moses hid his face Exodus 3:6
• YHWH hides his face Deuteronomy 31:17Psalms 13:1
• YHWH hides to protect: “hide me” Psalms 17:8Psalms 27:5
• “The hidden things {belong} to YHWH”; “an El who hides himself” Deuteronomy 29:29Isaiah 45:15

How we translate it

“Hide” 36 times, “hidden” 21, “hid” 7, “I hid” 4, “conceal” 3, “hides himself” 3, “hiding” 3. It is “hide” also in Exodus 3:6 (“Moses hid his face”) and in the phrase “hide my face” (Deuteronomy 31:17).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• hide ×36
• hidden ×21
• hid ×7
• I hid ×4
• conceal ×3
• hides himself ×3
• hiding ×3
• he concealed me ×1
• secret ×1
• when he hides ×1
• others ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×6
• 1 Samuel×6
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×8
• Psalms×23
• Proverbs×5
• Isaiah×14
• Jeremiah×5
• Ezekiel×3
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1
• Micah×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 4:14

  Look, you have driven me out today from the face of the ground, and from your presence I will be hidden; and I will be a wanderer and a drifter on the earth, and it will happen that whoever finds me will kill me.”

• Genesis 31:49

  and Mizpah, for he said, “May YHWH watch between me and you when we are hidden each of us from the other.

• Exodus 3:6

  And he said, “I am the Elohim of your father, the Elohim of Abraham, the Elohim of Isaac, and the Elohim of Jacob.” Then Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at Elohim.

• Numbers 5:13

  and a man lies with her with emission of semen, and it is hidden from the eyes of her husband, and she has made herself unclean in secret, and there is no witness against her, and she has not been caught,

• Deuteronomy 7:20

  Moreover YHWH your Elohim will send the hornet among them until those who are left and those who hide from you perish.

• Deuteronomy 29:29

  The hidden things belong to YHWH our Elohim, but the revealed things belong to us and to our sons forever, to do all the words of this instruction.

• Deuteronomy 31:17

  And my anger will burn against them on that day, and I will forsake them and hide my face from them, and they will be devoured, and many evils and troubles will find them; and they will say on that day, ‘Is it not because my Elohim is not in my midst that these evils have found me?’

• Deuteronomy 31:18

  And I will surely hide my face on that day because of all the evil that they have done, for they have turned to other gods.

• Deuteronomy 32:20

  And he said, ‘I will hide my face from them; I will see what their end will be, for they are a generation of perversities, children in whom there is no faithfulness.

• 1 Samuel 20:2

  He said to him, “Far be it! You shall not die. Look, my father does not do anything great or anything small without making it known to me; why then would my father hide from me this thing? It is not so.”

• 1 Samuel 20:5

  David said to Jonathan, “Look, tomorrow is the new moon, and I should surely sit with the king to eat; but let me go, and I will hide in the field until the evening of the third day.

• 1 Samuel 20:19

  And on the third day you shall go down quickly and come to the place where you hid yourself on the day of the deed, and stay beside the stone of Ezel.

• 1 Samuel 20:24

  David hid in the field. And the new moon came, and the king sat down at the meal to eat.

• 1 Samuel 23:19

  Then the Ziphites went up to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding among us in the strongholds at Horesh, on the hill of Hachilah, which is to the south of the wasteland?

• 1 Samuel 26:1

  The Ziphites came to Saul at Gibeah, saying, “Is not David hiding on the hill of Hachilah, facing the wasteland?”

• 1 Kings 17:3

  “Go from here and turn eastward, and hide yourself by the brook Cherith, which is east of the Jordan.

• 2 Kings 11:2

  But Jehosheba, the daughter of King Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, him and his nurse, and put them in the room of the beds; and they hid him from Athaliah, and he was not put to death.

• 2 Chronicles 22:11

  But Jehoshabeath, the daughter of the king, took Joash son of Ahaziah and stole him from among the king’s sons who were being put to death, and she put him and his nurse in the room of the beds. So Jehoshabeath, the daughter of King Joram, the wife of Jehoiada the priest —for she was the sister of Ahaziah— hid him from Athaliah, and she did not put him to death.

• Job 3:10

  because it did not shut the doors of my belly and hide suffering from my eyes.

• Job 3:23

  to the man whose way is hidden, and around whom Eloah has put a hedge?

• Job 13:20

  Only two things do not do to me, then from your face I will not hide myself:

• Job 13:24

  Why do you hide your face and count me as your enemy?

• Job 14:13

  Who would grant that in Sheol you would keep me hidden, that you would conceal me until your anger turned away, that you would set me a limit and remember me.

• Job 28:21

  It is concealed from the eyes of every living thing, and from the birds of the sky it is hidden.

• Job 34:22

  There is no darkness, and no shadow of death where those who work wickedness may hide.

• Job 34:29

  And when he gives quiet, who can declare him wicked? And when he hides his face, who can perceive him? So it is over a nation and over a human being alike,

• Psalms 10:11

  He says in his heart, “El has forgotten; he has hidden his face; he will not see it ever.”

• Psalms 13:1

  For the director. A psalm of David. How long, YHWH? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?

• Psalms 17:8

  Keep me as the pupil of the eye; in the shadow of your wings hide me

• Psalms 19:6

  From the end of the heavens is its going out, and its circuit to their ends; and nothing is hidden from its heat.

• Psalms 19:12

  Errors —who can discern them? Hold me innocent of hidden ones.

• Psalms 22:24

  For he has not despised nor detested the affliction of the afflicted, nor has he hidden his face from him; and when he cried for help to him, he heard.

• Psalms 27:5

  For he will keep me in his shelter in the day of evil; he will hide me in the hiding place of his tent; on a rock he will lift me high.

• Psalms 27:9

  Do not hide your face from me; do not turn away your servant in anger; my help you have been; do not leave me nor abandon me, Elohim of my salvation.

• Psalms 30:7

  YHWH, by your favor you set firm my mountain with strength; you hid your face; I was dismayed.

• Psalms 31:20

  You hide them in the hiding place of your face from the conspiracies of man; you keep them in a shelter from the strife of tongues.

• Psalms 38:9

  Adonai, before you is all my desire, and my groaning from you is not hidden.

• Psalms 44:24

  Why do you hide your face, and forget our affliction and our oppression?

• Psalms 51:9

  Hide your face from my sins, and all my iniquities blot out.

• Psalms 54:1

  For the director. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David, when the Ziphites came and said to Saul, “Is not David hiding among us?” Elohim, by your name save me, and by your might judge me.

And 41 more times.