Tsaphan means “esteem” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6845 צָּפַן (tsaphan) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsaphan (tsaw-fan') v. 1. to hide (by covering over) 2. (by implication) to hoard or reserve It has 30 linked Bible usages across 9 books. Visible English usage signals include hide, lurk, and lurking. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
tsaphan (tsaw-fan') v. 1. to hide (by covering over) 2. (by implication) to hoard or reserve 3. (figuratively) to deny 4. (specifically, positively) to protect 5. (specifically, negatively) to lurk [a primitive root] KJV: esteem, hide(-den one, self), lay up, lurk (be set) privily, (keep) secret(-ly, place).
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to treasure
Usage: 1) to hide, treasure, treasure or store up 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to hide, treasure, treasure up 1a2) to lie hidden, lurk 1b) (Niphal) to be hidden, be stored up 1c) (Hiphil) to hide, hide from discovery
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render tsaphan, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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30 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
First 30 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6845.
And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.
And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river's brink.
And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:
And these things hast thou hid in thine heart: I know that this is with thee.
O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
The wicked man travaileth with pain all his days, and the number of years is hidden to the oppressor.
For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt them.
All darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.
God layeth up his iniquity for his children: he rewardeth him, and he shall know it.
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.
Why, seeing times are not hidden from the Almighty, do they that know him not see his days?
He sitteth in the lurking places of the villages: in the secret places doth he murder the innocent: his eyes are privily set against the poor.
For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
Oh how great is thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; which thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!
Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion from the strife of tongues.
They gather themselves together, they hide themselves, they mark my steps, when they wait for my soul.
They have taken crafty counsel against thy people, and consulted against thy hidden ones.
Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;
He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee.
Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.
A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.
The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.
My face will I turn also from them, and they shall pollute my secret place: for the robbers shall enter into it, and defile it.
The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.
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Tsaphan (Strong's H6845) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "esteem". tsaphan (tsaw-fan') v. 1. to hide (by covering over) 2. (by implication) to hoard or reserve
This page currently indexes 30 linked usages for Strong's H6845 across 9 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6845 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hide, lurk, and lurking. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.