seter · secret, hiding place

What it means

seter (סֵתֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “secret, hiding place”.

A covering: something secret, a hidden place; also a shelter.

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. What is kept hidden, out of the sight of others.
2. A place where someone hides or is kept safe, as under God's shelter.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• secret ×17
• hiding place ×15
• covering ×1
• hidden place ×1
• secretly ×1
• under cover ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×5
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• Job×5
• Psalms×10
• Proverbs×3
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×3

• Deuteronomy 13:6

  If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son or your daughter or the wife of your bosom or your companion who is like your own soul incites you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” whom you have not known, you or your fathers,

• Deuteronomy 27:15

  ‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved image or a cast image, an abomination to YHWH, the work of the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 27:24

  ‘Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

• Deuteronomy 28:57

  and on her afterbirth that comes out from between her legs and on her children whom she bears; for she will eat them for lack of everything in secret, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy will distress you in your gates.

• Deuteronomy 32:38

  who ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them be a hiding place over you.

• Judges 3:19

  But he himself turned back from the carved images that are at Gilgal and said, “I have a secret word for you, O king.” He said, “Silence!” And all who were standing by him went out from him.

• 1 Samuel 19:2

  Jonathan told David, saying, “Saul my father is seeking to put you to death. Now therefore, be on your guard, please, in the morning, and stay in a hidden place and hide yourself.

• 1 Samuel 25:20

  As she was riding on the donkey and coming down under cover of the mountain, look, David and his men were coming down toward her, and she met them.

• 2 Samuel 12:12

  For you did it in secret, but I will do this thing before all Israel and before the sun.’”

• Job 13:10

  He will surely reprove you if in secret you show partiality.

• Job 22:14

  Clouds are a hiding place for him, and he does not see; and on the circle of the heavens he walks about.’

• Job 24:15

  And the eye of the adulterer watches for the twilight, saying, ‘No eye will catch sight of me,’ and he puts a covering on his face.

• Job 31:27

  and my heart was enticed in secret, and my hand has kissed at my mouth,

• Job 40:21

  Under the lotus plants it lies, in the hiding place of the reeds and the marsh.

• Psalms 18:11

  He made darkness his hiding place, his booth around him, darkness of waters, thick clouds.

• 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 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 32:7

  You are my hiding place; from distress you will guard me; with shouts of joy of deliverance you will surround me. Selah.

• Psalms 61:4

  I will reside in your tent forever; I will take refuge in the hiding place of your wings. Selah.

• Psalms 81:7

  In distress you called, and I rescued you; I answered you in the hiding place of thunder; I examined you at the waters of Meribah. Selah.

• Psalms 91:1

  He who dwells in the hiding place of Elyon will spend the night in the shadow of Shaddai.

• Psalms 101:5

  Whoever slanders in secret his neighbor, him I will destroy; whoever is high of eyes and wide of heart, him I will not endure.

• Psalms 119:114

  My hiding place and my shield are you; your word I have awaited.

• Psalms 139:15

  My bones were not hidden from you when I was made in secret, embroidered in the depths of the earth.

• Proverbs 9:17

  “Stolen waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant.”

• Proverbs 21:14

  A gift in secret pacifies anger, and a bribe in the bosom, strong wrath.

• Proverbs 25:23

  The north wind brings forth rain, and indignant faces, a secret tongue.

• Song of Songs 2:14

  My dove, in the clefts of the rock, in the hiding place of the steep slope, let me see your form, let me hear your voice, for your voice is sweet, and your form lovely.

• Isaiah 16:4

  Let my banished ones reside as aliens among you, Moab; be a hiding place for them from before the devastator. For the oppressor has come to an end, devastation has ceased, the tramplers have vanished from the land.

• Isaiah 28:17

  And I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the plumb line; and hail will carry away the refuge of lies, and the hiding place, waters will sweep it away.

• Isaiah 32:2

  And each one will be like a cover from the wind and a hiding place from the downpour, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shade of a heavy crag in a weary land.

• Isaiah 45:19

  I have not spoken in secret, in a place of a land of darkness; I did not say to the offspring of Jacob, ‘Seek me in emptiness.’ I, YHWH, speak righteousness, I declare uprightness.

• Isaiah 48:16

  Come near to me, hear this: from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it came to be, I was there.” And now Adonai YHWH has sent me, and his spirit.

• Jeremiah 37:17

  Then King Zedekiah sent and took him, and the king asked him in his house in secret and said, “Is there a word from YHWH?” And Jeremiah said, “There is.” And he said, “Into the hand of the king of Babylon you will be given.”

• Jeremiah 38:16

  And King Zedekiah swore to Jeremiah in secret, saying, “As YHWH lives, who made for us this soul, I will not put you to death, nor will I give you into the hand of these men who are seeking your life.”

• Jeremiah 40:15

  Then Johanan son of Kareah said to Gedaliah in secret at Mizpah, saying, “Let me go, please, and strike Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one will know. Why should he strike you dead, and all Judah be scattered, who are gathered to you, and the remnant of Judah perish?”