סָתַר çâthar — to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively
Translated in the KJV as be absent, keep close, conceal, hide, secret, × surely.
a primitive root; to hide (by covering), literally or figuratively.
çâthar in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 15Perfect (qatal) 9Wayyiqtol 7Jussive 5Infinitive absolute 2Imperative 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1Cohortative 1Participle (active) 1Infinitive construct 1
Moreover he said, I am the God of thy father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses hid his face; for he was afraid to look upon God.
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?
And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evils which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 12Imperfect (yiqtol) 10Participle (active) 3Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Wayyiqtol 1Infinitive construct 1Participle (passive) 1Imperative 1
Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the earth; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay me.
And Mizpah; for he said, The Lord watch between me and thee, when we are absent one from another.
And a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and be kept close, and she be defiled, and there be no witness against her, neither she be taken with the manner;
Hitpa'el
Participle (active) 4Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
Then came up the Ziphites to Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself with us in strong holds in the wood, in the hill of Hachilah, which is on the south of Jeshimon?
And the Ziphites came unto Saul to Gibeah, saying, Doth not David hide himself in the hill of Hachilah, which is before Jeshimon?
Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth.
Pu'al
Participle (passive) 1
Open rebuke is better than secret love.
Pi'el
Imperative 1
Take counsel, execute judgment; make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; bewray not him that wandereth.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›