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title: חָפָא — do secretly · The Tanakh dictionary
description: חָפָא (2644), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: do secretly. BDB 1906: vb. do secretly cover. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# חָפָא

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«חָפָא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **do secretly** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2644 · **BDB:** חָפָא

### Glosses

they.did.secretly (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

do secretly [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2644/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. do secretly cover [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2644/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. do secretly (proposes cover, = חפה, q.v.);—only Impf. וַיְחַפְּאוּ … דברים and they did things secretly 2 K 17:9.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «חָפָא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2644/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[2 Kings 17:9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.17.9/)

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וַיְחַפְּא֣וּ בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל דְּבָרִים֙ אֲשֶׁ֣ר לֹא־כֵ֔ן עַל־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיהֶ֑ם וַיִּבְנ֨וּ לָהֶ֤ם בָּמוֹת֙ בְּכָל־עָ֣רֵיהֶ֔ם מִמִּגְדַּ֥ל נוֹצְרִ֖ים עַד־עִ֥יר מִבְצָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and they.did.secretly the.people of.Israel things which \[were\].not right on Yahweh God their and they.built for themselves high.places in all cities their from a.tower of.watchmen unto a.city of.fortification

*JPS 1917:* and the children of Israel did impute things that were not right unto the LORD their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fortified city;

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