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# מִסְתָּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4565

**secret place** — used 10 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

secret place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4565/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִסְתָּר: secret place, hiding-place [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4565/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] secret place, hiding-place;—abs. מ׳ ψ 10:9; Hb 3:14; usually pl. מִסְתָּרִים Je 13:17 + 6 times; sf. מִסְתָּרָיו Je 49:10;— secret place(s), concealed from view, Je 13:17; where treasures are stored Is 45:3. hiding-place(s): for protection Je 23:24; 49:10. for perpetration of crime, especially murder: ψ 10:8 (‖ מַאֲרָב), sim. of lion v 9; 17:12, cf. Hb 3:14; ψ 64:5; of י׳ lying in wait La 3:10 (as a lion).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 10 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: places (4); secret places (3); place (2).

## In the verses

[Lamentations 3:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.3.10/#tree)

דֹּ֣ב אֹרֵ֥ב הוּא֙ לִ֔י אֲרִ֖י בְּמִסְתָּרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].a.bear \[which\].lies.in.wait he to me a.lion in secret.places

*JPS 1917:* He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

[Psalms 64:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.64.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.64.5/#tree)

לִיר֣וֹת בַּמִּסְתָּרִ֣ים תָּ֑ם פִּתְאֹ֥ם יֹ֝רֻ֗הוּ וְלֹ֣א יִירָֽאוּ׃

*Word for word:* to shoot in.(the) secret places \[the\].blameless suddenly they shoot.at.him and not they.are.afraid

*JPS 1917:* That they may shoot in secret places at the blameless; suddenly do they shoot at him, and fear not.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4565/): 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).