חָבָא
châbâʼ · khaw-baw'
to secrete
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root (compare H2245 (חָבַב));
to secrete
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] held, hide (self), do secretly.
Letters
- חHet8
Picture: courtyard wall or enclosure
- Concrete
- wall · fence · tent wall
- Extended
- to separate · protection · the inside vs. the outside · private
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to separate and protect › the house, what is within › strength, the leader
To separate and protect of the house, what is within of strength, the leader.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of חָבָא above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
33 occurrences · 33 OT · 0 NT · 32 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- because she hid2 · 7%
- and hid2 · 7%
- to hide2 · 7%
- hid themselves1 · 4%
- and i hid myself1 · 4%
- secretly1 · 4%
- hid1 · 4%
- wherein they had been hid1 · 4%
- for he hid1 · 4%
- behold, he hath hid1 · 4%
- did hide1 · 4%
- where they had hid1 · 4%
- which had hid1 · 4%
- place, and hide1 · 4%
- where he hideth1 · 4%
- behold, he is hid1 · 4%
- how i hid1 · 4%
- him: and she hath hid1 · 4%
- and he was with her hid1 · 4%
- with him hid1 · 4%
- him,(for he was hid1 · 4%
- and he was with them hid1 · 4%
- thou shalt be hid1 · 4%
- hide1 · 4%
- me, and hid1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.