חָבָא châbâʼ — to secrete
Translated in the KJV as × held, hide, do secretly.
a primitive root (compare H2245); to secrete.
châbâʼ in each stem
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 5Wayyiqtol 2Participle (passive) 2Infinitive construct 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 1Sequential perfect (weqatal) 1
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
Hitpa'el
Participle (active) 5Wayyiqtol 2Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Perfect (qatal) 1
And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.
And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 3Wayyiqtol 3
And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.
And Joshua saved Rahab the harlot alive, and her father’s household, and all that she had; and she dwelleth in Israel even unto this day; because she hid the messengers, which Joshua sent to spy out Jericho.
For it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of the Lord, that Obadiah took an hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)
Pu'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Hoph'al
Perfect (qatal) 1
But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
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 ›
