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# חָבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2247

**withdraw** — used 4 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

withdraw [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2247/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָבָה: vb. withdraw, hide [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2247/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. withdraw, hide, cf. חבא;— Imv. ms. חֲבִי Is 26:20 (Aramaic form, Ol§ 235, 3 Ew§ 224 c Du; Di reads חֲבֵי = חֲבֵה), withdraw into privacy (‖ בֹּא בַחֲדָרֶיךָ). Pf. וְנֶחְבָּה consec. Je 49:10; וְנַחְבֵּתֶם consec. Jos 2:16 (JE); Inf. לְהֵחָבֵה (as ל״א) 1 K 22:25 2 K 7:12; withdraw, hide oneself, lit. Jos 2:16 (JE), sq. שָׁמָּה; 2 K 7:12 c. בְּ loc.; 1 K 22:25; of Esau = Edom, hiding from judgment of י׳, וְנֶחְבָּה לֹא יוּכָ֑ל Je 49:10, as pointed, meant no doubt as pf., but constr. then hard; read rather inf. abs. נַחְבֹּה; so Gf Gie al. (v. Köi. 624).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: hide (1); hide themselves (1); hide yourself (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 22:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.22.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.22.25/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר מִיכָ֔יְהוּ הִנְּךָ֥ רֹאֶ֖ה בַּיּ֣וֹם הַה֑וּא אֲשֶׁ֥ר תָּבֹ֛א חֶ֥דֶר בְּחֶ֖דֶר לְהֵחָבֵֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Micaiah there you \[are\].about.to.see on the day (the) that when you.will.go a.room in a.room to hide.yourself

*JPS 1917:* And Micaiah said: 'Behold, thou shalt see on that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.'

[Isaiah 26:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.26.20/#tree)

לֵ֤ךְ עַמִּי֙ בֹּ֣א בַחֲדָרֶ֔יךָ וּֽסְגֹ֥ר דְּלָתְךָ֖ בַּעֲדֶ֑ךָ חֲבִ֥י כִמְעַט־רֶ֖גַע עַד־יַעֲבָר־זָֽעַם׃

*Word for word:* come my.people my go in rooms your and shut door your behind you hide like a.little of.a.moment until it.has.passed.by indignation

*JPS 1917:* Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee; hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2247.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2247/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).