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# חָפָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2644

**do secretly** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

do secretly [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2644/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָפָא: vb. do secretly cover [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2644/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. do secretly (proposes cover, = חפה, q.v.);—only Impf. וַיְחַפְּאוּ … דברים and they did things secretly 2 K 17:9.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they did secretly (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 17:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.9/#tree)

וַיְחַפְּא֣וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל דְּבָרִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־כֵ֔ן עַל־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם וַיִּבְנ֨וּ לָהֶ֤ם בָּמוֹת֙ בְּכָל־עָ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם מִמִּגְדַּ֥ל נוֹצְרִ֖ים עַד־עִ֥יר מִבְצָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and they.did.secretly the.people of.Israel things which \[were\].not right on Yahweh God their and they.built for themselves high.places in all cities their from a.tower of.watchmen unto a.city of.fortification

*JPS 1917:* and the children of Israel did impute things that were not right unto the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2644.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2644/): 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).