Definition

to hide (by covering over); by implication, to hoard or reserve; figuratively to deny; specifically (favorably) to protect, (unfavorably) to lurk

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

• esteem
• hide(-den one
• self)
• lay up
• lurk (be set) privily
• (keep) secret(-ly
• place)

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.