Strong's #2664: chaphas (pronounced khaw-fas')

a primitive root; to seek; causatively, to conceal oneself (i.e. let be sought), or mask:--change, (make) diligent (search), disquise self, hide, search (for, out).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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châphaś

1) to search, search for, to search out, disguise oneself

1a) (Qal)

1a1) to search for

1a2) to think out, devise

1a3) to search, test

1b) (Niphal) to be searched out, be exposed

1c) (Piel) to search, search through, search for

1d) (Pual) to be searched for, be sought out

1e) (Hithpael)

1e1) to disguise oneself

1e2) to let oneself be searched for

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 23 times:

 

Genesis 31:35: "rise up before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found"
Genesis 44:12: " And he searched, and began at the eldest, and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's"
1 Samuel 23:23: "you: and it shall come to pass, he be in the land, that I will search him out throughout all"
1 Samuel 28:8: "And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two"
1 Kings 20:6: "thee tomorrow about this time, and they shall search thine house, and the houses of thy servants;"
1 Kings 20:38: "for the king by the way, and disguised himself with ashes upon his face."
1 Kings 22:30: "said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and enter into the battle; but put thou"
1 Kings 22:30: "on thy robes. And the king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle."
2 Kings 10:23: "and said unto the worshipers of Baal, Search, and look that here"
2 Chronicles 18:29: "said unto Jehoshaphat, I will disguise myself, and will go to the battle; but put thou on"
2 Chronicles 18:29: "but put thou on thy robes. So the king of Israel disguised himself; to the battle."
2 Chronicles 35:22: "his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto"
Job 30:18: "By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat."
Psalms 64:6: " They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart,"
Psalms 64:6: "They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart,"
Psalms 77:6: "with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search."
Proverbs 2:4: "If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;"
Proverbs 20:27: "of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly."
Proverbs 28:12: "but when the wicked rise, a man is hidden."
Lamentations 3:40: " Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD."
Amos 9:3: "they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though"
Obadiah 1:6: "How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!"
Zephaniah 1:12: "And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish"