TBESH · H5643A
סֵ֫תֶר · se.ter · secrecy
1) covering, shelter, hiding place, secrecy 1a) covering, cover 1b) hiding place, shelter, secret place 1c) secrecy 1c1) secrecy (of tongue being slanderous)
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se.ter H5643
סֵ֫תֶר (se.ter) means “secrecy” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
סֵ֫תֶר Hebrew · H5643 36 tagged occurrences in 36 verses
Pronunciation guide: say'-ther Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
Lexicon entries
TBESH · H5643B
סִתְרָה · sit.rah · shelter
shelter, protection
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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary
or (feminine) סִתְרָה; (Deuteronomy [32:38), from H5641 (סָתַר); a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense)
KJV glosses: backbiting, covering, covert, [idiom] disguise(-th), hiding place, privily, protection, secret(-ly, place).
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How translators render H5643
Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| in secret | 8 |
| a refuge | 2 |
| are my hiding place | 2 |
| in the shelter | 2 |
| privately | 2 |
| secretly | 2 |
| a secret place | 1 |
| eaten in secret | 1 |
| he covers | 1 |
| hidden | 1 |
| his hiding place | 1 |
| i have a secret | 1 |
| in the crevices | 1 |
| in the secret place | 1 |
| ravine | 1 |
| she will secretly | 1 |
| shelter | 1 |
| so a backbiting | 1 |
| under the cover | 1 |
| veil | 1 |
| was secretly | 1 |
| you from the cloud | 1 |
| you secretly | 1 |
| your hiding place | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| in secret | 5 |
| secretly | 5 |
| in the secret | 3 |
| in the covert | 2 |
| my hiding place | 2 |
| a backbiting | 1 |
| a covering | 1 |
| and a covert | 1 |
| be your protection | 1 |
| by the covert | 1 |
| hath been secretly | 1 |
| him secretly | 1 |
| his secret place | 1 |
| i have a secret | 1 |
| in a secret | 1 |
| me and disguiseth | 1 |
| secret | 1 |
| the hiding place | 1 |
| thee in the secret place | 1 |
| thee secretly | 1 |
| them in the secret | 1 |
| thou a covert | 1 |
| whoso privily | 1 |
| you if ye do secretly | 1 |
Verses containing H5643
Page 1 of 1. 36 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
- Deuteronomy 13:6
· BSB · 1 occurrence
If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you embrace, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (which neither you nor your fathers have known,
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 13.7
- Deuteronomy 27:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 27:24
· BSB · 1 occurrence
‘Cursed is he who strikes down his neighbor in secret.’ And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 28:57
· BSB · 1 occurrence
the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
Read word by word - Deuteronomy 32:38
· BSB · 1 occurrence
which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!
Read word by word - Judges 3:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But upon reaching the idols near Gilgal, he himself turned back and said, “I have a secret message for you, O king.” “Silence,” said the king, and all his attendants left him.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 19:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
so he warned David, saying, “My father Saul intends to kill you. Be on your guard in the morning; find a secret place and hide there.
Read word by word - 1 Samuel 25:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As Abigail came riding her donkey into a mountain ravine, she saw David and his men coming down toward her, and she met them.
Read word by word - 2 Samuel 12:12
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You have acted in secret, but I will do this thing in broad daylight before all Israel.’”
Read word by word - Job 13:10
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Surely He would rebuke you if you secretly showed partiality.
Read word by word - Job 22:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Thick clouds veil Him so He does not see us as He traverses the vault of heaven.’
Read word by word - Job 24:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
The eye of the adulterer watches for twilight. Thinking, ‘No eye will see me,’ he covers his face.
Read word by word - Job 31:27
· BSB · 1 occurrence
so that my heart was secretly enticed and my hand threw a kiss from my mouth,
Read word by word - Job 40:21
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He lies under the lotus plants, hidden among the reeds of the marsh.
Read word by word - Psalms 18:11
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He made darkness His hiding place, and storm clouds a canopy around Him.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 18.12
- Psalms 27:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; He will conceal me under the cover of His tent; He will set me high upon a rock.
Read word by word - Psalms 31:20
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You hide them in the secret place of Your presence from the schemes of men. You conceal them in Your shelter from accusing tongues.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 31.21
- Psalms 32:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah
Read word by word - Psalms 61:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Let me dwell in Your tent forever and take refuge in the shelter of Your wings. Selah
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 61.5
- Psalms 81:7
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You called out in distress, and I rescued you; I answered you from the cloud of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Meribah. Selah
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 81.8
- Psalms 91:1
· BSB · 1 occurrence
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
Read word by word - Psalms 101:5
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Whoever slanders his neighbor in secret, I will put to silence; the one with haughty eyes and a proud heart, I will not endure.
Read word by word - Psalms 119:114
· BSB · 1 occurrence
You are my hiding place and my shield; I put my hope in Your word.
Read word by word - Psalms 139:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
My frame was not hidden from You when I was made in secret, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Read word by word - Proverbs 9:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
“Stolen water is sweet, and bread eaten in secret is tasty!”
Read word by word - Proverbs 21:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
A gift in secret soothes anger, and a covert bribe pacifies great wrath.
Read word by word - Proverbs 25:23
· BSB · 1 occurrence
As the north wind brings forth rain, so a backbiting tongue brings angry looks.
Read word by word - Song of Solomon 2:14
· BSB · 1 occurrence
O my dove in the clefts of the rock, in the crevices of the cliff, let me see your face, let me hear your voice; for your voice is sweet, and your countenance is lovely.
Read word by word - Isaiah 16:4
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Let my fugitives stay with you; be a refuge for Moab from the destroyer.” When the oppressor has gone, destruction has ceased, and the oppressors have vanished from the land,
Read word by word - Isaiah 28:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I will make justice the measuring line and righteousness the level. Hail will sweep away your refuge of lies, and water will flood your hiding place.
Read word by word - Isaiah 32:2
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Each will be like a shelter from the wind, a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shadow of a great rock in an arid land.
Read word by word - Isaiah 45:19
· BSB · 1 occurrence
I have not spoken in secret, from a place in a land of darkness. I did not say to the descendants of Jacob, ‘Seek Me in a wasteland.’ I, the LORD, speak the truth; I say what is right.
Read word by word - Isaiah 48:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Come near to Me and listen to this: From the beginning I have not spoken in secret; from the time it happened, I was there.” And now the Lord GOD has sent me, accompanied by His Spirit.
Read word by word - Jeremiah 37:17
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Later, King Zedekiah sent for Jeremiah and received him in his palace, where he asked him privately, “Is there a word from the LORD?” “There is,” Jeremiah replied. “You will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 38:16
· BSB · 1 occurrence
But King Zedekiah swore secretly to Jeremiah, “As surely as the LORD lives, who has given us this life, I will not kill you, nor will I deliver you into the hands of these men who are seeking your life.”
Read word by word - Jeremiah 40:15
· BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”
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