Strong’s H2244 · Hebrew

חָבָא
châbâʼ
khaw-baw'

Definition

to secrete

Etymology

a primitive root (compare H2245 (חָבַב));

Where the KJV renders it

  • held
  • hide (self)
  • do secretly

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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