alam · hide, be hidden

What it means

alam (עָלַם) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hide, be hidden”.

Be hidden, escape notice; hide, conceal.

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 stay out of someone's sight or knowledge; what is not revealed.
2. To turn the eyes away; to look the other way when something must be done.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hidden ×11
• hide ×3
• hide yourself ×3
• hides ×3
• ignore ×3
• do close ×2
• It is concealed ×1
• cover ×1
• secrets ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×6
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Nahum×1

• Leviticus 4:13

  And if the whole community of Israel errs and the matter is hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they do any one of all the commandments of YHWH concerning things that should not be done, and they become guilty,

• Leviticus 5:2

  Or if a person touches any unclean thing, whether the carcass of an unclean animal, or the carcass of an unclean beast, or the carcass of an unclean swarming thing, and it is hidden from him, he has become unclean and guilty.

• Leviticus 5:3

  Or if he touches human uncleanness, any uncleanness of his by which one becomes unclean, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it he will be guilty.

• Leviticus 5:4

  Or if a person swears, speaking rashly with his lips to do evil or to do good, in any matter that a man may speak rashly in an oath, and it is hidden from him, when he comes to know it he will be guilty in one of these.

• Leviticus 20:4

  And if the people of the land do close their eyes to that man when he gives some of his offspring to Molech, so as not to put him to death,

• 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 22:1

  You shall not see your brother’s ox or his lamb straying and ignore them; you shall surely bring them back to your brother.

• Deuteronomy 22:3

  And so you shall do with his donkey, and so you shall do with his garment, and so you shall do with any lost thing of your brother that is lost by him and you find; you may not ignore it.

• Deuteronomy 22:4

  You shall not see your brother’s donkey or his ox fallen on the road and ignore them; you shall surely lift them up with him.

• 1 Samuel 12:3

  Here I am; answer against me before YHWH and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken, or whose donkey have I taken, or whom have I exploited, whom have I crushed, or from the hand of whom have I taken compensation to cover my eyes with it? And I will return it to you.”

• 1 Kings 10:3

  And Solomon explained to her all her words; there was not a word hidden from the king that he did not explain to her.

• 2 Kings 4:27

  She came to the man of Elohim on the mountain and took hold of his feet. Gehazi came near to push her away, but the man of Elohim said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is bitter within her, and YHWH has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

• 2 Chronicles 9:2

  Solomon explained to her all her words; and there was no word hidden from Solomon that he did not explain to her.

• Job 6:16

  which are dark because of the ice; in them the snow hides itself.

• Job 28:21

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

• Job 42:3

  ‘Who is this that hides counsel without knowledge?’ Therefore I declared what I did not understand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.

• Psalms 10:1

  Why, YHWH, do you stand far off, why do you hide yourself in times of distress?

• Psalms 26:4

  I have not sat with men of falsehood, nor do I go in with those who hide themselves.

• Psalms 55:1

  For the director. With stringed instruments. A maskil of David. Give ear, Elohim, to my prayer, and do not hide yourself from my supplication.

• Psalms 90:8

  You have set our iniquities before you, our secrets in the light of your face.

• Proverbs 28:27

  Whoever gives to the poor will have no want, but whoever hides his eyes will have many curses.

• Ecclesiastes 12:14

  For every work Elohim will bring into judgment with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

• Isaiah 1:15

  When you spread out your palms, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you multiply prayer, I am not listening; your hands are full of blood.

• Isaiah 58:7

  Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and to bring the wandering afflicted home; when you see the naked, that you cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh?

• Lamentations 3:56

  My voice you heard; do not hide your ear to my relief, to my cry for help.

• Ezekiel 22:26

  Her priests have done violence to my instruction and have profaned my holy things; between the holy and the common they have not distinguished, and between the unclean and the clean they have not taught; and from my Sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, and I am profaned in their midst.

• Nahum 3:11

  You too will be drunk; you will be hidden; you too will seek a stronghold from the enemy.

And 1 more times.