Strong's #5956: `alam (pronounced aw-lam')

a primitive root; to veil from sight, i.e. conceal (literally or figuratively):--X any ways, blind, dissembler, hide (self), secret (thing).

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âlam

1) to conceal, hide, be hidden, be concealed, be secret

1a) (Qal) secret (participle)

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to be concealed

1b2) concealed, dissembler (participle)

1c) (Hiphil) to conceal, hide

1d) (Hithpael) to hide oneself

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 28 times:

 

Leviticus 4:13: "of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done"
Leviticus 5:2: "the carcass of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty."
Leviticus 5:3: "uncleanness it be that a man shall be defiled withal, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty."
Leviticus 5:4: "whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth"
Leviticus 20:4: "And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man,"
Leviticus 20:4: "And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man,"
Numbers 5:13: "lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband,"
Deuteronomy 22:1: "his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother."
Deuteronomy 22:3: "likewise: thou mayest not hide thyself."
Deuteronomy 22:4: "his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again."
1 Samuel 12:3: "or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore"
1 Kings 10:3: "there was not any thing hid from the king, which he told"
2 Kings 4:27: "her soul is vexed within her: and the LORD hath hid it from me, and hath not told"
2 Chronicles 9:2: "all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which"
Job 6:16: "the ice, and wherein the snow is hid:"
Job 28:21: " Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls"
Job 42:3: "Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered"
Psalms 10:1: "standest thou afar off, O LORD? why hidest thou thyself in times of trouble?"
Psalms 26:4: "neither will I go in with dissemblers."
Psalms 55:1: "Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication."
Psalms 90:8: "Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance."
Proverbs 28:27: "unto the poor shall not lack: but he that hideth his eyes shall have many a curse."
Ecclesiastes 12:14: "into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil."
Isaiah 1:15: "And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many"
Isaiah 58:7: "thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?"
Lamentations 3:56: "Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry."
Ezekiel 22:26: "have they showed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths,"
Nahum 3:11: "also shalt be drunken: thou shalt be hid, thou also shalt seek strength"