tsafan · hide, treasure up

What it means

tsafan (צָפַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hide, treasure up”.

Hide, keep in a safe place; store up; also lie in wait.

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 something away in secret, safe.
2. To cherish and keep, like the word in the heart.
3. To lie in wait.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• stored up ×5
• hide ×3
• stores up ×2
• treasure up ×2
• I have stored them up ×1
• I have treasured up ×1
• against your hidden ones ×1
• concealed ×1
• he will keep me ×1
• hid them ×1
• others ×14

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Joshua×1
• Job×8
• Psalms×8
• Proverbs×9
• Song of Songs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1

• Exodus 2:2

  The woman conceived and bore a son, and when she saw him, that he was beautiful, she hid him three months.

• Exodus 2:3

  When she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of papyrus, coated it with bitumen and with pitch, put the child in it, and set it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.

• Joshua 2:4

  But the woman took the two men and hid them. And she said, “Yes, the men came to me, but I did not know where they were from.

• Job 10:13

  But these things you hid in your heart; I know that this was with you:

• 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 15:20

  All the days of the wicked, he writhes in pain, and through the number of years stored up for the tyrant.

• Job 17:4

  For you have hidden their heart from prudence; therefore you will not exalt them.

• Job 20:26

  All darkness is hidden for his treasures; a fire not blown will devour him; it will go ill with the survivor in his tent.

• Job 21:19

  ‘Eloah stores up his wickedness for his sons,’ they say. Let him repay it to him, and let him know it.

• Job 23:12

  From the commandment of his lips I have not departed; more than my portion I have stored up the sayings of his mouth.

• Job 24:1

  Why are times not stored up by Shaddai, and why do those who know him not see his days?

• Psalms 10:8

  He sits in the ambush of the villages; in the hiding places he kills the innocent; his eyes watch stealthily for the helpless.

• Psalms 17:14

  from men, by your hand, YHWH, from men of the world, whose share is in life; and with what you have stored up you fill their belly; the sons are satisfied and leave their remainder to their little ones.

• 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 31:19

  How great is your goodness that you have kept for those who fear you, that you have worked for those who take refuge in you before human beings!

• 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 56:6

  They gather together, they lurk; they watch my heels, as they wait for my soul.

• Psalms 83:3

  Against your people they craftily plot their intimate counsel, and they consult against your hidden ones.

• Psalms 119:11

  In my heart I have treasured up your saying, so that I may not sin against you.

• Proverbs 1:11

  If they say, “Come with us; let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause;

• Proverbs 1:18

  And they lie in wait for their own blood; they ambush their own souls.

• Proverbs 2:1

  My son, if you receive my sayings, and treasure up my commandments with you,

• Proverbs 2:7

  He stores up sound judgment for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity,

• Proverbs 7:1

  My son, keep my sayings, and treasure up my commandments with you.

• Proverbs 10:14

  The wise store up knowledge, but the mouth of the fool is ruin close at hand.

• Proverbs 13:22

  A good man leaves an inheritance to the sons of his sons, but stored up for the righteous is the wealth of the sinner.

• Proverbs 27:16

  those who hide her hide the wind, and his right hand calls oil.

• Song of Songs 7:13

  The mandrakes give fragrance, and at our doors are every kind of choice fruit, new and also old; my beloved, for you I have stored them up.

• Jeremiah 16:17

  For my eyes are on all their ways; they are not hidden from before me, nor is their iniquity concealed from before my eyes.

• Ezekiel 7:22

  And I will turn my face from them, and they will profane my hidden treasure, and violent men will enter it and profane it.

• Hosea 13:12

  The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up, his sin stored away.

And 1 more times.