# חָבָא (chava)

Israeli respelling: cha-va. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H2244. 33 Old Testament occurrences.

to secrete

King James renderings: [idiom] held, hide (self), do secretly.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/chava-h2244

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 3:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/3/8) — 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 presen…
- [Genesis 3:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/3/10) — And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
- [Genesis 31:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/31/27) — 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 wi…
- [Joshua 6:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/17) — 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…
- [Joshua 6:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/6/25) — 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; b…
- [Joshua 10:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/10/16) — But these five kings fled, and hid themselves in a cave at Makkedah.
- [Joshua 10:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/10/17) — And it was told Joshua, saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah.
- [Joshua 10:27](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/10/27) — And it came to pass at the time of the going down of the sun, that Joshua commanded, and they took them down off the trees, and cast them i…
- [Judges 9:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/9/5) — And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one ston…
- [1 Samuel 10:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/10/22) — Therefore they enquired of the LORD further, if the man should yet come thither. And the LORD answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among t…
- [1 Samuel 13:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/13/6) — 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…
- [1 Samuel 14:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/11) — And both of them discovered themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out o…
- [1 Samuel 14:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/14/22) — Likewise all the men of Israel which had hid themselves in mount Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled, even they also followe…
- [1 Samuel 19:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/19/2) — But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pra…
- [1 Samuel 23:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/23/23) — See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me with the certainty, and I will…
- [2 Samuel 17:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/9) — Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them be overthrown at the first, that who…
- [1 Kings 18:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/4) — 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 f…
- [1 Kings 18:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/18/13) — Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the LORD, how I hid an hundred men of the LORD’s prophets by fifty in…
- [2 Kings 6:29](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/6/29) — So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.
- [2 Kings 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-kings/11/3) — And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.
- [1 Chronicles 21:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/21/20) — And Ornan turned back, and saw the angel; and his four sons with him hid themselves. Now Ornan was threshing wheat.
- [2 Chronicles 18:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/18/24) — And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.
- [2 Chronicles 22:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/9) — And he sought Ahaziah: and they caught him, (for he was hid in Samaria,) and brought him to Jehu: and when they had slain him, they buried…
- [2 Chronicles 22:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/22/12) — And he was with them hid in the house of God six years: and Athaliah reigned over the land.
- [Job 5:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/5/21) — Thou shalt be hid from the scourge of the tongue: neither shalt thou be afraid of destruction when it cometh.
- [Job 24:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/4) — They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
- [Job 29:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/8) — The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.
- [Job 29:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/29/10) — The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
- [Job 38:30](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/38/30) — The waters are hid as with a stone, and the face of the deep is frozen.
- [Isaiah 42:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/42/22) — 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…
- [Isaiah 49:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/49/2) — And he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me, and made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he…
- [Daniel 10:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/daniel/10/7) — And I Daniel alone saw the vision: for the men that were with me saw not the vision; but a great quaking fell upon them, so that they fled…
- [Amos 9:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/9/3) — And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the b…