מַחֲבֵא
machave · hiding place
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4224 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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machave (מַחֲבֵא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hiding place”.
A place where someone hides.
How to say it
ma·cha·ve
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
- A secret spot where one stays safe.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- hiding places ×1
- like a cover ×1
Where it appears
- 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.”
- 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.