Lexical Definition

‎סֵתֶר‎ çêther (say'-ther) secrecy ^H:N-M
or (feminine) סִתְרָה çithrâh (sith-raw'); (Deuteronomy [32:38), from ‎סָתַר‎

backbiting, covering, covert, [idiom] disguise(-th), hiding place, privily, protection, secret(-ly, place).

• a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense)

n m
1) covering, shelter, hiding place, secrecy
1a) covering, cover
1b) hiding place, shelter, secret place
1c) secrecy
1c1) secrecy (of tongue being slanderous)
n f
2) shelter, protection

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Brown-Driver-Briggs

‎סֵ֫תֶר‎ noun [masculine] covering, hiding-place, secrecy; — absolute ‎׳‎‎ס‎ Judg 3:19 +, ‎ס֑תֶר‎ 2Sam 12:12; Prov 25:23, ‎סֶ֑תֶר‎ Ps 139:15 construct ‎סֵ֫תֶר‎ 1Sam 25:20 +; suffix ‎סִתְרוֺ‎ Ps 18:12* (insert also || 2Sam 22:12 ᵐ5 ᵑ6 Th Bu HPS), ‎סִתְרִי‎ Ps 119:114 plural ‎סְתָרִים‎ Prov 9:17 —

1. covering, cover, ‎הָהָר‎ ‎׳‎‎בְּס‎ 1Sam 25:20 under cover of the mountain, concealed by it; of clouds as covering for ‎׳‎‎י‎ (shutting out his view) Job 22:14, of darkness (i.e. dark clouds) as ‎׳‎‎י‎'s hiding-place (in theoph.) Ps 18:12* (= 2Sam 22:12 see above), so ‎רַ֑עַם‎ ‎׳‎‎ס‎ 2Sam 81:8 hiding-place of thunder; of adulterer ‎פָּנִים‎ ‎׳‎‎ס‎ ‎יָשִׂים‎ Job 24:15 i.e. disguiseth himself.

2. a. hidng-place, 1Sam 19:2; Isa 28:17 ‎הַמַּדְרֵגָה‎ ‎׳‎‎ס‎ Song 2:14 (in figurative; || ‎חַגְוֵי הַסֶּלַע‎), of hippopotamus Job 40:21 figurative of Israel as shelter to Moab with ‎מִפְּנֵי‎ Isa 16:6, of ideal Israelite, as ‎זֶרֶם‎ ‎׳‎‎ס‎ Isa 32:2, especially of ‎׳‎‎י‎ as shelter: ‎אָהֳלוֺ‎ ‎׳‎‎ס‎ Ps 27:5, ‎פָּנֶיךָ‎ ‎׳‎‎ס‎ Ps 31:21*, ‎כְּנָפֶיךָ‎ ‎׳‎‎ס‎ Ps 61:5*, ‎עֶלְיוֺן‎ ‎׳‎‎ס‎ Ps 91:1, ‎לִי‎ ‎׳‎‎אַתָּה ס‎ Ps 32:7 compare Ps 119:114.
b. secret place, of womb Ps 139:15 (|| ‎תַּחְתִּיּוֺת אָ֑רֶץ‎).

3. secrecy: ‎׳‎‎דְּבַרסֿ‎ Judg 3:19 a matter of secrecy, secret matter; plural abstract intensive ‎לֶחֶם סְתָרִים‎ Prov 9:17 bread of utter secrecy (i.e. gained stealthily, || ‎מַיִם גְּנוּבִים‎); ‎לְשֹׁן סָ֑תֶר‎ Prov 25:23 tongue of secrecy, i.e. slanderous; elsewhere ‎׳‎‎בַּסּ‎ in secrecy, secretly Deut 13:7*; Deut 27:15; Deut 27:24; Deut 28:57; Deut 2:12; Deut 38:16; Deut 40:15; Deut 48:16; Deut 31:27; Ps 101:5.

‎סִתְרָה‎ noun feminine shelter, protection, ‎יְהִי עֲלֵיכֶם‎ ‎׳‎‎ס‎ Deut 32:38 (read perhaps ‎יהיו‎, compare Dr) let them (the strange gods) be over you as a shelter.

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