סֵ֫תֶר
hiding place
also: covering, shelter, secrecy fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 22 times (61%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 12 times (33%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (3%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (3%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 36 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5643 appears — 36 distinct verses across 10 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 5 verses
- Deuteronomy 13:6 בַּ/סֵּ֣תֶר prep det + n c ms If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entice you secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which you have not known, you, nor your fathers;
- Deuteronomy 27:15 בַּ/סָּ֑תֶר prep det + n c ms Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to Yahweh, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 27:24 בַּ/סָּ֑תֶר prep det + n c ms Cursed be he who strikes his neighbor in secret. All the people shall say, Amen.
- Deuteronomy 28:57 בַּ/סָּ֑תֶר prep det + n c ms and toward her young one who comes out from between her feet, and toward her children whom she shall bear; for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemy shall distress you in your gates.
- Deuteronomy 32:38 סִתְרָֽה n c fs Which ate the fat of their sacrifices, And drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your protection.
Judges 1 verse
1 Samuel 2 verses
- 1 Samuel 19:2 בַ/סֵּ֖תֶר prep det + n c ms Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeks to kill you: now therefore, please take care of yourself in the morning, and live in a secret place, and hide yourself:
- 1 Samuel 25:20 בְּ/סֵ֣תֶר prep + n c ms cs It was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.
2 Samuel 1 verse
Job 5 verses
- Job 13:10 בַּ֝/סֵּ֗תֶר prep det + n c ms He will surely reprove you If you secretly show partiality.
- Job 22:14 סֵֽתֶר n c ms Thick clouds are a covering to him, so that he doesn't see. He walks on the vault of the sky.'
- Job 24:15 וְ/סֵ֖תֶר conj + n c ms cs The eye also of the adulterer waits for the twilight, Saying, 'No eye shall see me.' He disguises his face.
- Job 31:27 בַּ/סֵּ֣תֶר prep det + n c ms And my heart has been secretly enticed, My hand threw a kiss from my mouth:
- Job 40:21 בְּ/סֵ֖תֶר prep + n c ms cs He lies under the lotus trees, In the covert of the reed, and the marsh.
Psalms 10 verses
- Psalms 18:11 סִתְר֗/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He made darkness his hiding-place, his pavilion around him, Darkness of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
- Psalms 27:5 בְּ/סֵ֣תֶר prep + n c ms cs For in the day of trouble he will keep me secretly in his pavilion. In the covert of his tent he will hide me. He will lift me up on a rock.
- Psalms 31:20 בְּ/סֵ֥תֶר prep + n c ms cs In the shelter of your presence you will hide them from the plotting of man. You will keep them secretly in a dwelling away from the strife of tongues.
- Psalms 32:7 סֵ֥תֶר n c ms You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
- Psalms 61:4 בְ/סֵ֖תֶר prep + n c ms cs I will dwell in your tent forever. I will take refuge in the shelter of your wings. Selah.
- Psalms 81:7 בְּ/סֵ֣תֶר prep + n c ms cs You called in trouble, and I delivered you. I answered you in the secret place of thunder. I tested you at the waters of Meribah." Selah.
- Psalms 91:1 בְּ/סֵ֣תֶר prep + n c ms cs He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High Will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
- Psalms 101:5 בַ/סֵּ֨תֶר prep det + n c ms I will silence whoever secretly slanders his neighbor. I won't tolerate one who is haughty and conceited.
- Psalms 119:114 סִתְרִ֣/י n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs You are my hiding place and my shield. I hope in your word.
- Psalms 139:15 בַ/סֵּ֑תֶר prep det + n c ms My frame wasn't hidden from you, When I was made in secret, Woven together in the depths of the earth.
Proverbs 3 verses
- Proverbs 9:17 סְתָרִ֣ים n c mp "Stolen water is sweet. Food eaten in secret is pleasant."
- Proverbs 21:14 בַּ֭/סֵּתֶר prep det + n c ms A gift in secret pacifies anger; And a bribe in the cloak, strong wrath.
- Proverbs 25:23 סָֽתֶר n c ms The north wind brings forth rain: So a backbiting tongue brings an angry face.
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Isaiah 5 verses
- Isaiah 16:4 סֵ֥תֶר n c ms Let my outcasts dwell with you; as for Moab, be a covert to him from the face of the destroyer. For the extortioner is brought to nothing, destruction ceases, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.
- Isaiah 28:17 וְ/סֵ֥תֶר conj + n c ms I will make justice the line, and righteousness the plummet; and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding-place.
- Isaiah 32:2 וְ/סֵ֣תֶר conj + n c ms cs A man shall be as a hiding-place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest, as streams of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a weary land.
- Isaiah 45:19 בַ/סֵּ֣תֶר prep det + n c ms I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I didn't say to the seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain: I, Yahweh, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.
- Isaiah 48:16 בַּ/סֵּ֣תֶר prep det + n c ms Come you near to me, hear you this; from the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord Yahweh has sent me, and his Spirit.
Jeremiah 3 verses
- Jeremiah 37:17 בַּ/סֵּ֔תֶר prep det + n c ms Then Zedekiah the king sent, and fetched him: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word from Yahweh? Jeremiah said, There is. He said also, You shall be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.
- Jeremiah 38:16 בַּ/סֵּ֣תֶר prep det + n c ms So Zedekiah the king swore secretly to Jeremiah, saying, As Yahweh lives, who made us this soul, I will not put you to death, neither will I give you into the hand of these men who seek your life.
- Jeremiah 40:15 בַ/סֵּ֨תֶר prep det + n c ms Then Johanan the son of Kareah spoke to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Please let me go, and I will kill Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: why should he take your life, that all the Jews who are gathered to you should be scattered, and the remnant of Judah perish?
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, סתר (çêther) means “hiding place.” It first appears in Deuteronomy 13:6. Spanning 36 verses in 10 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in Psalms (28% of all occurrences). Beyond its headline sense, its full sense range takes in “covering”, “shelter”, and “secrecy”. Dig into 36-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5643 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 36
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 36 distinct verses.
- 10 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 10 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #990
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 990 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 36 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 10 verses 28%
- Deuteronomy 5 verses 14%
- Job 5 verses 14%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 36 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 19 verses · 53%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 12 verses · 33%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 14%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Secret 10×, Secretly 5×, Covert 4×
- American Standard Version†: Covert 6×, Secret 6×, Secretly 4×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Secret 9×, Hiding place 3×, Shelter 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Secret 6×, Secretly 4×, Secrecy 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5643 across 36† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5643 across 35† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5643 across 36† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5643 across 35† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 4 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
סתר I [m.] covering, hiding-place, secrecy
- 1. covering, cover, בְּס׳ הָהָר 1 S 25:20 under cover of the mt., concealed by it; of clouds as covering for י׳ (shutting out his view) Jb 22:14, of darkness (i.e. dark clouds) as י׳’s shiding-place (in theoph.) ψ 18:12 (= 2 S 22:12 v. supr.), so ס׳ רַ֑עַם 81:8 hiding-place of thundur; of adulterer ס׳ פָּנִים יָשִׂים Jb 24:15 i.e. disguiseth himself. e.g. 1 Samuel 25:20
- 2.
- a. hiding-place, 1 S 19:2; Is 28:17 ס׳ הַמַּדְרֵגָה Ct 2:14 (in fig.; ‖ חַגְוֵי הַסֶּלַע), of hippopot. Jb 40:21; fig. of Isr. as shelter to Moab c. מִפְּנֵי Is 16:6, of ideal Israelite, as ס׳ זֶרֶם 32:2, especially of י׳ as shelter: ס׳ אָהֳלוֹ ψ 27:5, ס׳ פָּנֶיךָ 31:21, ס׳ בְּנָפֶיךָ 61:5, ס׳ עֶלְיוֹן 91:1, אַתָּה ס׳ לִי 32:7 cf. 119:114. e.g. 1 Samuel 19:2
- b. secret place, of womb ψ 139:15 (‖ תַּחְתִּיּוֹת אָ֑רֶץ). e.g. Psalms 139:15
- 3. secrecy: דְּבַר־ס׳ Ju 3:19 a matter of secrecy, secret matter; pl. abstr. intens. לֶחֶם סְתָרִים Pr 9:17 bread of utter secrecy (i.e. gained stealthily, ‖ מַיִם גְּנוּבִים); לְשֹׁן סָ֑תֶר 25:23 tongue of secrecy, i.e. slanderous; elsewhere בַּסּ׳ in secrecy, secretly Dt 13:7; 27:15, 24; 28:57; 2 S 12:12; Je 37:17; 38:16; 40:15; Is 45:19; 48:16; Jb 13:10; 31:27; Pr 21:14 ψ 101:5. e.g. Judges 3:19
סתר II shelter, protection, יְהִי עֲלֵיכֶם ס׳ Dt 32
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. n.[m.] covering, hiding-place, secrecy;—abs. ס׳ Ju 3:19 +, סָ֑תֶר 2 S 12:12; Pr 25:23, סֶ֑תֶר ψ 139:15; cstr. סֵ֫תֶר 1 S 25:20 +; sf. סִתְרוֹ ψ 18:12 (ins. also ‖ 2 S 22:12 𝔊 𝔖 Th Bu HPS), סִתְרִי ψ 119:114; pl. סְתָרִים Pr 9:17;—
I. n.f. shelter, protection, יְהִי עֲלֵיכֶם ס׳ Dt 32:38 (read perhaps יהיו, cf. Dr) let them (the strange gods) be over you as a shelter.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from סתר (çâthar) (H5641) — to hide.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
סָתַר I
- (b. h.) to cover, hide.
- to conceal. Meg. 13ᵃ (play on אסתר) שהיתה מְסַתֶּרֶת דבריה she used her words with discretion (ref. to Esth. II, 20); Yalk. Esth. 1053 (not שסתרת).—Part. pass. מְסוּתָּר; pl. מְסוּתָּרִים. Ab. d’R. N. ch. VI דברים המס׳ מבניִ אדם הוציאם וכ׳ things which are concealed to men, R. ‘Akiba brought forth to the light. e.g. Esther 2:20
- to hide. Yalk. Deut. 941 אע"פ שהִסְתַּרְתִּי פני וכ׳ although I hide my face before them, I will speak to him in a dream.
- to be hidden, protected; to hide one’s self. Midr. Till. to Ps. XIX, 7 לע׳'ל מי נִסְתָּר מחמתו וכ׳ in the future who will be protected from his heat?—Esp. to retire under suspicious circumstances (Num. V, 13). Sot. 3ᵃ קינא לה ונִסְתָּרָה he was jealous of her (forewarned her), and she retired (with the man). Y. ib. I, 16ᵇ bot. מה טיבה להִיסָּתֵר what business had she to retire? Bab. ib. 5ᵇ אל תִּסָּתְרִי do not hide thyself (with that man); ib. 2ᵇ (in Chald. dict.) לא תִיסָּתְרִי וכ׳ do not hide thyself with that man. Ber. 31ᵇ אלך ואֶסְתַּתֵּר וכ׳ I will go and seclude myself (with a man) before my husband. Ib. אם כן ילכו … ויִסְתַּתְּרוּ if this be so, all childless women would go and hide themselves; a. fr.—נִסְתָּרוֹת f.pl. a) secret things, mysteries. Ḥag. 13ᵃ (fr. Ben Sira) אין לך עסק בנ׳ thou must have nothing to do with (must not speculate on) mysteries; Gen. R. s. 8; a. e.—b) secret sins for which the whole community is made responsible. Snh. 43ᵇ לא ענש על הנ׳ וכ׳ the Lord did not punish (Israel) for secret sins until &c. Y. Sot. VII, end, 22ᵃ אין לכם עסק בנ׳ you will no more be made responsible for undetected sins. e.g. Numbers 5:13
סְתַר
- Pa. סַתֵּר same, to hide.—Part. pass. מְסַתַּר. Targ. Is. LXV, 16. Targ. Jer. XVI, 17 (ed. Wil. מִסַתְּרָן, corr. acc.).
- to hide one’s self; to find shelter. Targ. Koh. VII, 12.—*Targ. Y. I Deut. XXIX, 5 מִסְתְּרָא וכ׳ finding shelter in your schools.—Ber. 31ᵇ כיון דמִסְתַּתַּרְנָא when I closet myself (with a stranger), v. preced. Sot. 2ᵇ זמנין דלא אִיסְתַּתְּרָא ואמר איסתתרא (not איסתתר) it may happen that she did not closet herself with a man, but he (the husband) says that she did &c. Ib. ומִסְתַּתְּרָא וליכא וכ׳ Rashi (ed. ומיסתתרה) and she may closet herself, and we have in our days no waters … to test her &c.; a. e.
סָתַר II
- (= סחתר, Saf. of חתר; cmp. Arab. šatar) [to dig under,]
- 1. to upset, tear down. Meg. 31ᵇ אם אמרו לך זקנים סְתוֹר וכ׳ if the old tell thee, tear down, and the young, build, tear down and build not, v. סְתִירָה II; Ned. 40ᵃ. Sabb. VII, 2 הבונה והסוֹתֵר he who builds (on the Sabbath) or who tears down. Yoma 10ᵃ שיפלו בונין ביד סוֹתְרִין that the builders (of the Temple, the Persians) should fall through the hands of the destroyers (the Romans), v. סָתוֹרָא. Ab. d’R. N. ch. VI סְתָרוֹ ועקרו וכ׳ he dug under it (the rock) and broke it loose &c. Koh. R. to VII, 26 כותל קשה … וסוֹתְרוֹ a wall is strong, but man has more power and tears it down; a. fr.
- 2. [to stir up,] to loosen, unravel. Sot. I, 5 סותר את שערה the priest loosens her hair (Num. V, 18 ופרע); אם … לא היה סוֹתְרוֹ if her hair was beautiful, he did not loosen it. Treat. S’maḥ.ch. ch. VIII סוֹתְרִים שערות וכ׳ you may untie the hair of dead brides; a. e. e.g. Numbers 5:18
- 3. to dissolve, decompose. Lam. R. introd. (R. Ḥănina 1) (ref. to Prov. XXV, 20) כזה … וסוֹתְרוֹ כך היו סוֹתְרִים וכ׳ as one pours vinegar on natron and decomposes it, so they decomposed (counteracted) the words of the Law; v. infra. e.g. Proverbs 25:20
- 4. to undo, reverse, invalidate. Snh. III, 8 כל זמן … סותר את הדין whenever he offers new evidence, he reverses the decision, i.e. the court has to try his case again; לאחר שלשים יום אינו סותר after thirty days, the judgment cannot be disturbed.—Esp. to make void the days of a Nazarite’s vow which have been observed, to begin anew. Naz. II, 10 סותר שבעים he must count seventy days again. Ib. III, 3 ס׳ את הכל he must count over the whole period (of days); אינו ס׳ אלא שבעה he has to count only seven days over. Tosef. ib. II, 13 יש לו לִסְתּוֹר סותר וכ׳ if there is a portion of the period left to undo, i.e., if the period of his vow has not yet expired, he must count thirty days again; כל … ואין לו לסתור סותר וכ׳ whenever he becomes unclean on a day on which it is improper to offer a sacrifice, and he has nothing left to undo, i.e. his term has expired, and he lacks only a sacrifice to be released: he must count seven days; a. fr.—5 (logics) to contradict, disprove. Succ. 26ᵇ, a. fr. מעשה לסתור, v. מַעֲשֶׂה. Sabb. 13ᵇ שאלמלא … שהיו דבריו סוֹתְרִין וכ׳ but for him, the Book of Ezekiel would have been expunged from the canon, because its words seemed to contradict the words of the Law. Ib. 30ᵃ לא דייך שדבריך סותרין וכ׳ not only do thy words contradict those of David, but they contradict one another; a. fr.—Num. R. s. 13 לא אחד מהן סותר על חבירו neither of them conflicts with the other.—[Yalk. Ex. 356 שלא יסתרו, v. סָרַס I Hithpa.]
- to be disarranged, be undone. Y. Kil. IX, end, 32ᵈ; Y. Sabb. XIII, beg. 14ᵃ מִיסְתַּתֵּר הוא the web will go apart again, opp. מתקיים.
סְתַר ²
- 1. to tear down, destroy. Targ. Y. Deut. VII, 5. Targ. Jer. I, 19; a. fr.—Taan. 20ᵇ כל אשיתא … הווה ס׳ לה every threatening wall he ordered to be torn down. B. Bath. 3ᵇ לא לִיסְתּוֹר וכ׳ one must not tear down a synagogue before having built another one. Ib. סֵתְרֵי ובנו, v. סִתְוָא; a. fr.
- 2. to unravel, wind up. Ḥull. 60ᵃ, v. דַּוְלָלָא.
- same. Targ. Prov. XV, 25 (Var. ed. Lag. נסטר, corr. acc.). Targ. II Kings XI, 18; a. e.—Yeb. 116ᵇ קרע סַתְּרִי מזייך … rend thy garments, disarrange thy hair (in mourning). Ned. 50ᵇ עד דמְסַתְּרִין וכ׳ until the people of his household disarranged their hair for him (in sympathy with his pain).
- to be torn down. Meg. Taan. ch. VIII, v. סוֹרִיגָא.
סֵתֶר
- secrecy. Sot. I, 2 (2ᵃ) נכנסה עמו לבית הס׳ (not בס׳) if she went with him to a closeted place, v. סְתִירָה. Gen. R. s. 45 סִיתְרָהּ, v. גָּלוּי.—בַּסֵּ׳ in secret. B. Bath. 9ᵇ גדול העושה צדקה בס׳ וכ׳ he that dispenses charity in secret, is greater than Moses. Ḥag. 16ᵃ העובר עבירה בס׳ וכ׳ he who selects a secret place for committing a sin, is considered as though he pushed away the feet of the Divine Presence (denying the omniscience of God). Ab. IV, 4; a. fr.—Pl. סְתָרִים, constr. סִתְרֵי, סִי׳. Mikv. IX, 3; Lev. R. s. 15, a. fr. בית הס׳ covered parts of the body, posteriors &c. Meg. 3ᵃ מי הוא זה שגילה סְתָרַיי וכ׳ who is he that revealed my secrets to men? Ib. אני … סְתָרֶיךָ I did reveal thy secrets. Ḥag. 11ᵇ סתרי עריות the secrets of the laws of incest, i.e. the laws not explicitly stated (cmp. סְתָם). Y. Keth. V, 29ᵈ bot. סיתרי תורה the secrets of the Law, i.e. logical deductions; a. fr.
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Forms in the corpus
The 25 distinct written forms H5643 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5643, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- מסתור miçtôwr H4563 shelter
- מסתר maçtêr H4564 hiding
- מסתר miçtâr H4565 hiding place
- סתר çᵉthar H5642 to hide
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 32 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 36 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Deuteronomy 13:6
- Judges 3:19
- 1 Samuel 19:2
- 2 Samuel 12:12
- Job 13:10
- Psalms 18:11
- Proverbs 9:17
- Song of Solomon 2:14
- Isaiah 16:4
- Jeremiah 37:17
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
