טָמַן
ṭâman · taw-man'
to hide (by covering over)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to hide (by covering over)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: hide, lay privily, in secret.
Letters
- טTet9
Picture: a basket, or something coiled
- Concrete
- basket · coil · snake · container
- Extended
- to surround · to contain · to store · to twist
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- נNun50
Picture: a sprouting seed, or a fish in water
- Concrete
- seed · sprout · fish · offspring
- Extended
- life · continuation · heir · to perpetuate
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to surround and contain › water, chaos, the mighty deep › the seed, life continuing
To surround and contain of water, chaos, the mighty deep of the seed, life continuing.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of טָמַן 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
31 occurrences · 31 OT · 0 NT · 30 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and hid4 · 13%
- and hide3 · 10%
- hid2 · 6%
- of the house, and hid1 · 3%
- them; and, behold, they are hid1 · 3%
- and, behold, it was hid1 · 3%
- or as an hidden1 · 3%
- is laid1 · 3%
- shall be hid1 · 3%
- by hiding1 · 3%
- hide1 · 3%
- in secret1 · 3%
- they hid1 · 3%
- they have laid privily1 · 3%
- have they hid1 · 3%
- that he hath hid1 · 3%
- of laying1 · 3%
- privily1 · 3%
- have hid1 · 3%
- have they privily laid1 · 3%
- man hideth1 · 3%
- hideth1 · 3%
- thee to hide1 · 3%
- where i had hid1 · 3%
- me, and hid1 · 3%
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.