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# טָמַן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2934

**hide** — used 31 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

hide [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2934/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

טָמַן: vb. hide, conceal Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2934/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. hide, conceal, especially in earth (NH id.; whence perhaps Aramaic טְמַן keep, preserve; cf. Arabic طَمَرَ bury, hide (loan-word Frä 137); Aramaic ܛܡܰܪ, טְמַר id.);— Pf. טָמַן ψ 35:8 + 2 times etc.; Impf. וַיִּטְמֹן Gn 35:4, etc.; Imv. sf. טָמְנֵהוּ Je 13:4; טָמְנֵם Jb 40:13; Inf. cstr. לִטְמוֹן Jb 31:33 ψ 64:6; Pt. pass. טָמוּן Jb 3:16 + 3 times; טְמוּנָה Jos 7:22; pl. טְמֻנִים Jos 7:21; cstr. טְמוּנֵי Dt 33:19;— hide, c. acc. Gn 35:4 (E), Ex 2:12 (E; dead body in sand), Jos 2:6 (JE; spies under flax-stalks), Jos 7:21, 22 (JE; Achan’s theft), Je 13:4, 5, 6, 7 (Jer.’s girdle), 43:9, 10 (stones at Tahpanhes); hide, bury hand in dish (צַלָּ֑חַת) Pr 19:24; 26:15 (of עָצֵל the sluggard); נֵפֶל טָמוּן Jb 3:16 hidden abortion, i.e. a lifeless child at once buried; שְׂפֻנֵי טְמוּנֵי חול Dt 33:19 (poem); of hiding iniquity עון Jb 31:33; hiding the wicked in the dust עפר Jb 40:13. often of hiding, concealing, secretly laying a snare רֶשֶׁת ψ 9:16; 35:8, sq. לִי 31:5; שַׁחַת רִשְׁתָּם 35:7; פַּח sq. לִי 140:6; 142:4; sq. לרגלי Je 18:22; חבל Jb 18:10; מוֹקשׁים ψ 64:5. טָמוּן that which is darkened = darkness, Jb 40:13 nearly = שְׁאוֹל: פניהם חֲבשׁ בט׳ bind their faces in darkness (i.e. the wicked); hide = reserve Jb 20:26 all darkness is held in reserve for his treasures, i.e. all calamities are stored up for them. Imv. הִטָּמֵן בֶּעָפָר מִפְּנֵי פַּחַד י׳ Is 2:10 hide thyself in the dust, from before the terror of י׳. (or Qal? BaZMG 1889, 180) Impf. וַיֵּלְכוּ וַיַּטְמִנוּ 2 K 7:8(×2) and they went and hid (it), i.e. plunder from Aramaic camp.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 29 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: hide (4); they have hidden (3); I (2).

## In the verses

[Job 3:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.16/#tree)

א֤וֹכְנֵ֣פֶל טָ֭מוּן לֹ֣א אֶהְיֶ֑ה כְּ֝עֹלְלִ֗ים לֹא־רָ֥אוּ אֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* or like a.miscarriage hidden not was.I? like children \[who\].not they.have.seen light

*JPS 1917:* Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that never saw light.

[Job 18:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.10/#tree)

טָמ֣וּן בָּאָ֣רֶץ חַבְל֑וֹ וּ֝מַלְכֻּדְתּ֗וֹ עֲלֵ֣י נָתִֽיב׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].hidden on the ground rope his and trap his on \[the\].path

*JPS 1917:* A noose is hid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2934.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1496/2934/): 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).