chava · hide

What it means

chava (חָבָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hide”.

Oneself.

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 get where no one can see you, or put something or someone out of sight.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hid ×12
• hidden ×11
• hide ×6
• hiding ×2
• did you secretly ×1
• he hides ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Joshua×5
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×6
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×2
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Job×5
• Isaiah×2
• Daniel×1
• Amos×1

• Genesis 3:8

  And they heard the sound of YHWH Elohim walking about in the garden in the wind of the day, and the man and his wife hid from the presence of YHWH Elohim among the trees of the garden.

• Genesis 3:10

  And he said, “I heard your voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I am naked; and I hid.”

• Genesis 31:27

  Why did you secretly flee, deceive me, and not tell me? I would have sent you away with joy and with songs, with tambourine and with lyre.

• Joshua 6:17

  The city shall be a thing devoted to destruction, it and all that is in it, to YHWH. Only Rahab the prostitute shall live, she and all who are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers whom we sent.

• Joshua 6:25

  But Rahab the prostitute and the house of her father and all that she had, Joshua kept alive; and she has lived in the midst of Israel to this day, because she hid the messengers whom Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.

• Joshua 10:16

  Now these five kings fled and hid in the cave at Makkedah.

• Joshua 10:17

  And it was told Joshua, saying, “The five kings have been found hidden in the cave at Makkedah.”

• Joshua 10:27

  And it came about, at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua gave command, and they took them down from the trees and threw them into the cave where they had hidden, and they put great stones on the mouth of the cave, which are there until this very day.

• Judges 9:5

  He went to his father’s house at Ophrah and killed his brothers, the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, on one stone. But Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself.

• 1 Samuel 10:22

  So they asked YHWH again, “Has the man come here yet?” And YHWH said, “Look, he is hiding among the baggage.”

• 1 Samuel 13:6

  The men of Israel saw that they were in distress, for the people were hard pressed, and the people hid in the caves, in the thickets, in the rocks, in the strongholds, and in the cisterns.

• 1 Samuel 14:11

  The two of them showed themselves to the post of the Philistines, and the Philistines said, “Look, Hebrews are coming out of the holes where they had hidden themselves.”

• 1 Samuel 14:22

  And all the men of Israel who had hidden in the hill country of Ephraim heard that the Philistines had fled, and they too followed close after them in the war.

• 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 23:23

  See and find out about all the hiding places where he hides there, and come back to me with sure information, and I will go with you; and if he is in the land, I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”

• 2 Samuel 17:9

  Look, now he is hidden in one of the pits or in one of the places; and it will be, when some fall among them at the first, that whoever hears will say, ‘There has been a slaughter among the people who follow after Absalom.’

• 1 Kings 18:4

  and it happened, when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of YHWH, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets and hid them, fifty men to each cave, and fed them with bread and water.

• 1 Kings 18:13

  Has it not been told to my lord what I did when Jezebel was killing the prophets of YHWH, how I hid a hundred men of the prophets of YHWH, fifty by fifty men in each cave, and fed them with bread and water?

• 2 Kings 6:29

  So we cooked my son and ate him; and I said to her on the next day, ‘Give your son, and let us eat him’; but she has hidden her son.”

• 2 Kings 11:3

  He was with her in the house of YHWH, hidden, six years, while Athaliah was reigning over the land.

• 1 Chronicles 21:20

  Ornan turned and saw the angel, and his four sons who were with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.

• 2 Chronicles 18:24

  Micaiah said, “Look, you will see it on that day, when you go into a room within a room to hide.”

• 2 Chronicles 22:9

  He sought Ahaziah, and they captured him —he was hiding in Samaria— and brought him to Jehu, and put him to death; and they buried him, for they said, “He is the son of Jehoshaphat, who sought YHWH with all his heart.” And there was no one in the house of Ahaziah to retain strength for the kingdom.

• 2 Chronicles 22:12

  He was with them in the house of Elohim, hidden, six years, while Athaliah was reigning over the land.

• Job 5:21

  From the lash of the tongue you will be hidden, and you will not fear devastation when it comes.

• Job 24:4

  They push the needy off the road; together the humble of the land hide themselves.

• Job 29:8

  the young men saw me and hid, and the very old rose and stood;

• Job 29:10

  the voice of the leaders was hidden, and their tongue to their palate stuck.

• Job 38:30

  Like stone the waters hide themselves, and the face of the deep congeals.

• Isaiah 42:22

  But this is a people plundered and despoiled; all of them are trapped in the holes, and in houses of prison they are hidden; they have become plunder, and there is no one to deliver; spoil, and there is no one to say, “Give it back!”

• Isaiah 49:2

  And he made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand he hid me; and he made me a polished arrow; in his quiver he concealed me.

• Daniel 10:7

  And I, Daniel, alone saw the vision, and the men who were with me did not see the vision; but a great trembling fell on them, and they fled to hide.

• Amos 9:3

  And if they hide on the top of Carmel, from there I will search out and take them; and if they conceal themselves from my sight on the floor of the sea, from there I will command the snake, and it will bite them.