Tsâphan — H6845

Definition

verb

to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk

1. to hide, treasure, treasure or store up
1. (Qal)
1. to hide, treasure, treasure up
2. to lie hidden, lurk
2. (Niphal) to be hidden, be stored up
3. (Hiphil) to hide, hide from discovery

Usually translated as

hide, privily, secret, secretly, esteem, hidden one, lay up, lurk

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• hágion (G39)
• apoblépō (G578)
• dídōmi (G1325)
• enkrýptō (G1470)
• ekleípō (G1587)
• episkopḗ (G1984)
• échō (G2192)
• thēsaurízō (G2343)
• krýptō (G2928)
• tēréō (G5083)

Occurrences

Tsâphan occurs 32 times in 31 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (2), Joshua (1), Job (8), Psalms (8), Proverbs (8), Song of Songs (1), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (1), Hosea (1)

• Exodus 2:2 — And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid (וַֽתִּצְפְּנֵ֖הוּ) him three months.
• Exodus 2:3 — And when she could not longer hide (הַצְּפִינוֹ֒) him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.
• Joshua 2:4 — And the woman took the two men, and hid (וַֽתִּצְפְּנ֑וֹ) them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
• Job 10:13 — And these things hast thou hid (צָפַ֣נְתָּ) in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
• Job 14:13 — O that thou wouldest hide (תַּצְפִּנֵ֗נִי) me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
• Job 15:20 — The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden (נִצְפְּנ֥וּ) to the oppressor.
• Job 17:4 — For thou hast hid (צָפַ֣נְתָּ) their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
• Job 20:26 — All darkness shall be hid in his secret places (לִצְפּ֫וּנָ֥יו): a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
• Job 21:19 — God layeth up (יִצְפֹּן) his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
• Job 23:12 — Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed (צָפַ֥נְתִּי) the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
• Job 24:1 — Why, seeing times are not hidden (נִצְפְּנ֣וּ) from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
• Psalms 10:8 — He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set (יִצְפֹּֽנוּ) against the poor.
• Psalms 17:14 — From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid (וּֽצְפוּנְךָ֮) treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.
• Psalms 27:5 — For in the time of trouble he shall hide (יִצְפְּנֵ֨נִי) me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
• Psalms 31:19 — Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up (צָפַ֪נְתָּ) for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
• Psalms 31:20 — Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly (תִּצְפְּנֵ֥ם) in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
• Psalms 56:6 — They gather themselves together, they hide (יִצְפּ֗וֹנוּ) themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
• Psalms 83:3 — They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones (צְפוּנֶֽיךָ).
• Psalms 119:11 — Thy word have I hid (צָפַ֣נְתִּי) in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
• Proverbs 1:11 — If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily (נִצְפְּנָ֖ה) for the innocent without cause:
• Proverbs 1:18 — And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily (יִ֝צְפְּנ֗וּ) for their own lives.
• Proverbs 2:1 — My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide (תִּצְפֹּ֥ן) my commandments with thee;
• Proverbs 2:7 — He layeth up (יִצְפֹּ֣ן) sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
• Proverbs 7:1 — My son, keep my words, and lay up (תִּצְפֹּ֥ן) my commandments with thee.
• Proverbs 10:14 — Wise men lay up (יִצְפְּנוּ) knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
• Proverbs 13:22 — A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up (וְצָפ֥וּן) for the just.
• Proverbs 27:16 — Whosoever hideth (צֹפְנֶ֥יהָ) her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
• Proverbs 27:16 — Whosoever hideth her hideth (צָֽפַן) the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
• Song of Songs 7:13 — The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up (צָפַ֥נְתִּי) for thee, O my beloved.
• Jeremiah 16:17 — For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid (נִצְפַּ֥ן) from mine eyes.
• Ezekiel 7:22 — My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret (צְפוּנִ֑י) place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
• Hosea 13:12 — The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid (צְפוּנָ֖ה).