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מִסְתָּר

mistar · hiding place, covert

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4565 · appears 10 times in the Bible

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What it means

mistar (מִסְתָּר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hiding place, covert”.

A hiding place: a hidden spot where someone hides or takes cover.

How to say it

mis·tar

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. A hidden place, where someone hides or lies in ambush.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

  • hiding places ×5
  • secret places ×3
  • hiding place ×2

Related words

Comes from

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

Where it appears

  • 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 10:9

    He lies in wait in the hiding place like a lion in its lair; he lies in wait to seize the afflicted; he seizes the afflicted by dragging him into his net.

  • Psalms 17:12

    His likeness is like a lion that longs to tear, and like a young lion sitting in hiding places.

  • Psalms 64:4

    to shoot from hiding places at the blameless; suddenly they shoot at him and do not fear.

  • Isaiah 45:3

    and I will give you the treasures of darkness and the hidden riches of secret places, so that you may know that I am YHWH, who calls you by your name, the Elohim of Israel.

  • Jeremiah 13:17

    But if you do not hear it, in secret places my soul will weep because of pride, and will weep bitterly, and my eye will run down with tears, for the flock of YHWH has been taken captive.

  • Jeremiah 23:24

    Can anyone hide himself in secret places so that I do not see him? declares YHWH. Do I not fill the heavens and the earth? declares YHWH.

  • Jeremiah 49:10

    For I have stripped Esau bare; I have uncovered his hiding places, and he will not be able to hide himself; his offspring is devastated, and his brothers and his neighbors, and he is no more.

  • Lamentations 3:10

    A bear lying in wait he is to me, a lion in hiding places.

  • Habakkuk 3:14

    You pierced with his rods the head of his warriors; they stormed to scatter me; their exultation was as to devour the poor in the hiding place.