# צָפַן (tsafan) Israeli respelling: tsa-fan. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew. Strong’s H6845. 31 Old Testament occurrences. to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk King James renderings: esteem, hide(-den one, self), lay up, lurk (be set) privily, (keep) secret(-ly, place). Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/tsafan-h6845 ## Occurrences - [Exodus 2:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/2) — And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months. - [Exodus 2:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/2/3) — 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 th… - [Joshua 2:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/4) — 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: - [Job 10:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/10/13) — And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee. - [Job 14:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/14/13) — 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… - [Job 15:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/15/20) — The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor. - [Job 17:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/17/4) — For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them. - [Job 20:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/20/26) — All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle. - [Job 21:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/21/19) — God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it. - [Job 23:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/23/12) — Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food. - [Job 24:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/24/1) — Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days? - [Psalms 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/10/8) — He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the po… - [Psalms 17:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/17/14) — From men which are thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hi… - [Psalms 27:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/27/5) — For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a ro… - [Psalms 31:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/31/19) — Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before t… - [Psalms 31:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/31/20) — Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of to… - [Psalms 56:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/56/6) — They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul. - [Psalms 83:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/83/3) — They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones. - [Psalms 119:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/119/11) — Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee. - [Proverbs 1:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/11) — If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: - [Proverbs 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/1/18) — And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives. - [Proverbs 2:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/2/1) — My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee; - [Proverbs 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/2/7) — He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly. - [Proverbs 7:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/7/1) — My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. - [Proverbs 10:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/10/14) — Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction. - [Proverbs 13:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/13/22) — A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just. - [Proverbs 27:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/proverbs/27/16) — Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself. - [Song of Solomon 7:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/song-of-solomon/7/13) — The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved. - [Jeremiah 16:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/16/17) — For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes. - [Ezekiel 7:22](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/7/22) — My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it. - [Hosea 13:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hosea/13/12) — The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.