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Strong's #5643: cether (pronounced say'-ther)

or (feminine) cithrah (Deut. 32:38), {sith-raw'}; from 5641; a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense):--backbiting, covering, covert, X disguise(-th), hiding place, privily, protection, secret(-ly, place).




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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sêther / sithrâh

1) covering, shelter, hiding place, secrecy (noun masculine)

1a) covering, cover

1b) hiding place, shelter, secret place

1c) secrecy

1c1) secrecy (of tongue being slanderous)

2) shelter, protection (noun feminine)

Part of Speech: see above in Definition

Relation: from H5641

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1551a, 1551b



Usage:

This word is used 36 times:

Deuteronomy 13:6: "which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other"
Deuteronomy 27:15: "of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say,"
Deuteronomy 27:24: "Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbor secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen."
Deuteronomy 28:57: "for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith"
Deuteronomy 32:38: "let them rise up and help you, and be your protection."
Judges 3:19: "were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence."
1 Samuel 19:2: "take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:"
1 Samuel 25:20: "on the ass, that she came down by the covert of the hill, and, behold, David and his men"
2 Samuel 12:12: "For thou didst it secretly: but I will do this"
Job 13:10: "He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons."
Job 22:14: "Thick clouds are a covering to him, that he seeth not; and he walketh in the circuit of heaven."
Job 24:15: "No eye shall see me: and disguiseth his face."
Job 31:27: "And my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand:"
Job 40:21: "He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens."
Psalms 18:11: "He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters and thick clouds"
Psalms 27:5: "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."
Psalms 31:20: "Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence from the pride of man: thou shalt keep them secretly in a pavilion"
Psalms 32:7: "Thou art my hiding place; thou shalt preserve me from trouble; thou shalt compass me about with songs of deliverance."
Psalms 61:4: "in thy tabernacle forever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah."
Psalms 81:7: "in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters"
Psalms 91:1: "He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty."
Psalms 101:5: " Whoso privily slandereth his neighbor, him will I cut off: him that hath a high look and a proud heart"
Psalms 119:114: "Thou art my hiding place and my shield: I hope in thy word."
Psalms 139:15: "from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth."
Proverbs 9:17: "waters are sweet, and bread eaten in secret is pleasant."
Proverbs 21:14: "A gift in secret pacifieth anger: and a reward in the bosom strong wrath."
Proverbs 25:23: "rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue."
Song of Solomon 2:14: "O my dove, that art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs, let me see thy countenance,"
Isaiah 16:4: "dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for"
Isaiah 28:17: "of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place."
Isaiah 32:2: "shall be as a hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place,"
Isaiah 45:19: "I have not spoken in secret, in a dark place of the earth: I said not"
Isaiah 48:16: "ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time"
Jeremiah 37:17: "and took him out: and the king asked him secretly in his house, and said, Is there any word"
Jeremiah 38:16: "So Zedekiah the king swore secretly unto Jeremiah, saying, As the LORD"
Jeremiah 40:15: "to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay"









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