safan · hide, reserve

What it means

safan (סָפַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hide, reserve”.

Keep covered, reserve; also to cover with a roof or with panels.

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 cover a building with boards above or inside.
2. To set a share apart in advance for the one to whom it belongs.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• it was roofed ×2
• paneled ×2
• he roofed ×1
• was reserved ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• 1 Kings×3
• Jeremiah×1
• Haggai×1

• Deuteronomy 33:21

  He chose the first part for himself, for there the portion of a commander was reserved; and he came with the heads of the people; he carried out the righteousness of YHWH and his judgments with Israel.”

• 1 Kings 6:9

  So he built the house and finished it, and he roofed the house with coffers and rows of cedar.

• 1 Kings 7:3

  And it was roofed with cedar above, over the beams that were on the pillars: forty and five, fifteen to the row.

• 1 Kings 7:7

  And the portico of the Throne, where he would judge, the portico of Judgment, he made; and it was roofed with cedar from the floor to the floor.

• Jeremiah 22:14

  who says, “I will build for myself a house of great dimensions and spacious upper rooms, and cuts out for it its windows, paneled with cedar and painted with vermilion.”

• Haggai 1:4

  “Is it a time for you, you yourselves, to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies desolate?