צָפַן tsâphan — to hide (by covering over)
Translated in the KJV as esteem, hide(-den one, self), lay up, lurk privily, secret(-ly, place).
a primitive root; to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk.
tsâphan in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 12Perfect (qatal) 7Participle (passive) 6Wayyiqtol 2Cohortative 1Participle (active) 1
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
Niph'al
Perfect (qatal) 3
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
Hiph'il
Infinitive construct 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
And when she could not longer hide 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.
O that thou wouldest hide 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!
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 ›