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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