Lexical Definition

‎טָמַן‎ ṭâman (taw-man') to hide ^H:V
a primitive root

hide, lay privily, in secret.

• to hide (by covering over)

1) to hide, conceal, bury
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to hide
1a2) hiding, concealing, secretly laying (participle)
1a3) darkness (participle)
1b) (Niphal) to hide oneself
1c) (Hiphil) to hide

See Greek: ἐγκρύπτω · ἐκπορεύομαι · κρύπτω · ὑπομένω

Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎טָמַן‎ verb hide, conceal, especially in earth (Late Hebrew id.; whence perhaps Aramaic ‎טְמֵן‎ keep, preserve; compare Arabic bury, hide (loan-word Frä¹³⁷); Aramaic , ‎טְמַר‎ id.); —

Qal Perfect ‎טְמֵן‎ Ps 35:8 + 2 t. etc; Imperfect ‎וַיִּטְמֹן‎ Gen 35:4, etc.; Imperative suffix ‎טָמְנֵהוּ‎ Jer 13:4 ‎טָמְנֵם‎ Job 40:13 Infinitive construct ‎לִטְמוֺן‎ Job 31:33; Ps 64:6* Passive participle ‎טָמוּן‎ Job 3:16 + 3 t.; ‎טְמוּנָה‎ Josh 7:22 plural ‎טְמֻנִים‎ Josh 7:21 construct ‎טְמוּנֵי‎Deut 33:19 —

1. hide, with accusative Gen 35:4 (E), Exod 2:12 (E; dead body in sand), Josh 2:6 (J E; spies under flax-stalks), Josh 7:21; Josh 7:22 (J E; Achan's theft), Jer 13:4; Jer 13:5; Jer 13:6; Jer 13:7 (Jeremiah's girdle), Jer 43:9; Jer 43:10 (stones at Tahpanhes); hide, bury hand in dish (‎צַלָּ֑חַת‎) Prov 19:24; Prov 26:15 (of ‎עָצֵל‎ the sluggard); ‎נֵפֶל‎ ‎טָמוּן‎ Job 3:16 hidden abortion, i.e. a lifeless child at once buried; ‎שְׂפֻנֵי טְמוּנֵי חול‎ Deut 33:19 (poem); of hiding iniquity ‎עון‎ Job 31:33 hiding the wicked in the dust ‎עפר‎ Job 40:13.

2. often of hiding, concealing, secretly laying a snare ‎רֶשֶׁת‎ Ps 9:16*; Ps 35:8, followed by ‎לִי‎ Ps 31:5* ‎שַׁחַת רִשְׁתָּם‎ Ps 35:7 ‎פַּח‎ followed by ‎לִי‎ Ps 140:6*; Ps 142:4* followed by ‎לרגלי‎ Jer 18:22 ‎חבל‎ Job 18:10 ‎מוֺקשׁים‎ Ps 64:5*.

3. ‎טָמוּן‎ that which is darkened = darkness, Job 40:13 nearly = ‎׃שְׁאוֺל‎ ‎׳‎‎פניהם חֲבשׁ בט‎ bind their faces in darkness (i.e. the wicked); hide = reserve Job 20:26 all darkness is held in reserve for his treasures, i.e. all calamities are stored up for them. Niph`al Imperative ‎חִטָּמֵן בֶּעָפָר‎ ‎׳‎‎מִפְּנֵי פַּחַד י‎ Isa 2:10 hide thyself in the dust, from before the terror of ‎׳‎‎י‎. Hiph`il (or Qal? Ba^{ZMG 1889, 180}) Imperfect ‎וַיֵּלִכוּ וַיַּטְמִנוּ‎ 2Kgs 7:8 (twice in verse) and they went and hid (it), i.e. plunder from Aramaic camp.

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