taman · hide, bury

What it means

taman (טָמַן) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hide, bury”.

Hide by burying in the ground.

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 out of sight, under ground or in a hidden place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hidden ×14
• hide ×5
• buries ×2
• hid them ×2
• hiding ×2
• they hid ×2
• buried ×1
• he hid ×1
• hid him ×1
• hid it ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×3
• 2 Kings×2
• Job×6
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×7

• Genesis 35:4

  So they gave to Jacob all the foreign gods that were in their hands, and the rings that were in their ears; and Jacob buried them under the oak that was near Shechem.

• Exodus 2:12

  He looked this way and that, and when he saw that there was no one, he struck the Egyptian and hid him in the sand.

• Deuteronomy 33:19

  Peoples to the mountain they will call; there they will sacrifice sacrifices of righteousness, for they will suck the abundance of the seas and the hidden treasures of the sand.”

• Joshua 2:6

  But she had brought them up to the roof and hidden them among the stalks of flax that she had laid out on the roof.

• Joshua 7:21

  I saw among the spoil one fine cloak from Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and one tongue of gold whose weight was fifty shekels; and I coveted them and took them. And look, they are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver under it.”

• Joshua 7:22

  So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and look, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it.

• 2 Kings 7:8

  These lepers came to the edge of the camp and went into one tent and ate and drank, and they carried from there silver and gold and clothes, and went and hid them; and they came back and went into another tent and carried things from there and went and hid them.

• Job 3:16

  Or like a stillborn child hidden I would not be, like infants who did not see light.

• Job 18:10

  Hidden in the earth is his cord, and his snaring device on the path.

• 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 31:33

  if I covered like Adam my transgressions by hiding in my bosom my iniquity,

• Job 40:13

  Hide them in the dust together; bind their faces in the hidden place.

• Psalms 9:15

  The nations have sunk into the pit that they made; in the net that they hid their foot has been caught.

• Psalms 31:4

  You will bring me out of the net that they have hidden for me, for you are my stronghold.

• Psalms 35:7

  For without cause they hid for me the pit of their net; without cause they dug it for my soul.

• Psalms 35:8

  Let ruin come upon him that he does not know, and his net that he hid catch him; with ruin let him fall into it.

• Psalms 64:5

  They hold fast to an evil matter; they talk of hiding traps; they say, “Who will see them?”

• Psalms 140:5

  The proud have hidden a snare for me, and cords; they have spread a net beside the track; traps they have set for me. Selah.

• Psalms 142:3

  When my spirit grows faint within me, you know my pathway; in the path where I walk they have hidden a snare for me.

• Proverbs 19:24

  The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth.

• Proverbs 26:15

  The sluggard buries his hand in the dish; he is too weary to bring it back to his mouth.

• Isaiah 2:10

  Go into the rock and hide in the dust from before the dread of YHWH and from the majesty of his loftiness.

• Jeremiah 13:4

  “Take the belt that you bought, which is on your loins, and get up, go to the Euphrates, and hide it there in the cleft of the rock.”

• Jeremiah 13:5

  So I went and hid it by the Euphrates, as YHWH had commanded me.

• Jeremiah 13:6

  And it happened at the end of many days that YHWH said to me: “Get up, go to the Euphrates, and take from there the belt that I commanded you to hide there.”

• Jeremiah 13:7

  So I went to the Euphrates, and dug, and took the belt from the place where I had hidden it; and look, the belt was ruined; it was not good for anything.

• Jeremiah 18:22

  Let a cry be heard from their houses, when you bring upon them a raiding band suddenly; for they have dug a pit to capture me, and snares they have hidden for my feet.

• Jeremiah 43:9

  “Take in your hand large stones, and hide them in the mortar, in the brickwork that is at the entrance of the house of Pharaoh in Tahpanhes, before the eyes of Jewish men;

• Jeremiah 43:10

  and say to them, ‘Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Look, I am sending, and I will take Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, my servant, and I will set his throne above these stones that I have hidden; and he will spread his canopy over them.

And 2 more times.