362 occurrences in 13 translations

'Secret' in the Bible

Why did you make a secret of your flight, not giving me word of it, so that I might have sent you away with joy and songs, with melody and music?

Verse ConceptsHarpsMusical Instruments, types ofMusicTambourinesLyresAvoiding SecrecyOthers Who FledThose Who DeceivedThose Who Did Not Tell

But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they made a secret design against him to put him to death;

Verse ConceptsPlottingSeeing At A DistanceAttempting To Kill Specific PeopleSeeing PeopleConspiracySiblingsdistance

We are all one man's sons, we are true men; we have not come with any secret purpose.

Verse ConceptsSpyingvulnerability

And Joseph said, It is as I said; you have come with some secret purpose;

Verse ConceptsSpying

Send one of your number to get your brother, and the rest of you will be kept in prison, so that your words may be tested to see if you are true; if not, by the life of Pharaoh, your purpose is certainly secret.

Verse ConceptsPrisonersSpyingPeople Sending People

The man who is the ruler of the country was rough with us and put us in prison, saying that we had come with a secret evil purpose.

Verse ConceptsSpying

And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret?

Verse ConceptsWhat Do You Do?

Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs.

Verse ConceptsWeapons

O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

Verse ConceptsIrritationParticipation, In SinAnger Of Man, CauseSelf WillEvil AssociationsObstinate IndividualsReady To KillSports

And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.

Verse ConceptsMaternal LoveCoatsBoatsBitumen and tarLove, And The WorldMineralsPapyrusPlantsUnable To Do Other ThingsRivers

But the Egyptian magicians did the same thing with their secret arts. Pharaoh's heart was stubborn, and he did not listen to them, just as the LORD had said.

Verse ConceptsImitating OthersFalse Miracles, Examples OfLying WondersStiffnecked PeopleObstinate Individualsmagic

The magicians tried to do the same thing with their secret arts, but they were unable to bring out the gnats. The gnats were on the people and the animals.

Verse ConceptsSorcery And MagicFliesBoth Men And Animals AffectedUnable To Do Other Thingsmagic

a man has sexual relations with her and she conceals it from her husband, keeping it secret although she has defiled herself with there being no witnesses against her, but she was caught anyway.

Verse ConceptsIgnorant Of Facts

No evil power has effect against Jacob, no secret arts against Israel; at the right time it will be said of Jacob and of Israel, See what God has done!

Verse ConceptsSorcery And MagicDivinationWhat Does God Do?SorceryEclipseisraelmagicadvertisingOccult Being Powerless Before God

Now when Balaam saw that it was the Lord's pleasure to give his blessing to Israel, he did not, as at other times, make use of secret arts, but turning his face to the waste land,

Verse ConceptsGod Blesses

And looking on the Kenites he went on with his story and said, Strong is your living-place, and your secret place is safe in the rock.

Verse ConceptsNestsWise Proverbs

And the Lord will send a hornet among them, till all the rest who have kept themselves safe from you in secret places have been cut off.

Verse ConceptsInsectsHornetsBeesHiding From People

When thy brother -- son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend who is as thine own soul -- doth move thee, in secret, saying, Let us go and serve other gods -- (which thou hast not known, thou and thy fathers,

Verse ConceptsSecrecyEnticersUnknown GodsDifferent GodsEncouraged To Serve Foreign godsShow No MercyMothers Love For Her ChildrenSiblingsMothers And SonsDeath Of A Motheratheism

Let there not be seen among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter go through the fire, or anyone using secret arts, or a maker of strange sounds, or a reader of signs, or any wonder-worker,

Verse ConceptsAstrologyChild sacrificeOccultismHuman SacrificesNecromancyAvoid SorcerySorceryDrugsmagicwitchespracticepsychicsOccultism Being Forbidden

Or anyone using secret force on people, or putting questions to a spirit, or having secret knowledge, or going to the dead for directions.

Verse ConceptsDivination, Practiced ByOccultismNecromancyAvoid SpiritismSorcerypsychics

For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.

Verse ConceptsDivination, Practiced ByAvoid SorceryGod ForbiddingSorcery

When men fight together one with another, and the wife of the one come near to rescue her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and stretch out her hand, and seize him by his secret parts,

Verse ConceptsGraspingMale GenitalsFighting One AnotherStrugglesmanhood

Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

Verse ConceptsAbominationsCreativityAmenArtMetalworkersSecrecyIdolsPagan PracticesAbominations, Idolatry IsAbominations, To GodAvoiding SecrecyFate Of Idolaterscursesimage

‘The one who secretly kills his neighbor is cursed.’And all the people will say, ‘Amen!’

Verse ConceptsAmenAvoiding Secrecy

and against her seed which cometh out from between her feet, even against her sons whom she doth bear, for she doth eat them for the lacking of all things in secret, in the siege and in the straitness with which thine enemy doth straiten thee within thy gates.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismActing In SecretBirth

For these orders which I have given you today are not strange and secret, and are not far away.

Verse ConceptsFar From OneEasy Burdenslawcommandmentsimpossible

It is not [a secret hidden] in heaven, that you should say, ‘Who will go up to heaven for us and bring it to us, so that we may hear it and obey it?’

Verse ConceptsClimbingGoing To Heaven

They will send out the word for the people to come to the mountain, taking there the offerings of righteousness: for the store of the seas will be theirs, and the secret wealth of the sand.

Verse ConceptsSea Dwellers

And the woman took the two men and put them in a secret place; then she said, Yes, the men came to me, but I had no idea where they came from;

Verse ConceptsHelpfulnessPeople Hiding PeopleGodly WomanMan And Womanhiding

And the men said to her, Our life for yours if you keep our business secret; and when the Lord has given us the land, we will keep faith and be kind to you.

Verse ConceptsFaithfulness, In Human RelationshipsReward, HumanNegotiationDo Not TellExchange Of Individuals

And the town will be put to the curse, and everything in it will be given to the Lord: only Rahab, the loose woman, and all who are in the house with her, will be kept safe, because she kept secret the men we sent.

Verse ConceptsThe AccursedHelpfulnessKillingSpiesPeople Hiding PeopleUnder The Ban

And you are to do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king: but their goods and their cattle you may take for yourselves: let a secret force be stationed to make a surprise attack on the town from the back.

Verse ConceptsCattle

Then you will get up from your secret position and take the town, for the Lord your God will give it up into your hands.

Verse ConceptsThose God Gave Into Their Hands

So Joshua sent them out: and they took up a secret position between Beth-el and Ai, on the west side of Ai: but Joshua kept with the people that night.

Verse ConceptsWaitingWest Sides

So all the people were in their places, the army on the north side of the town and the secret force on the west; and that night Joshua went down into the valley.

Verse ConceptsWest Sides

Now when the king of Ai saw it, he got up quickly and went out to war against Israel, he and all his people, to the slope going down to the valley; but he had no idea that a secret force was waiting at the back of the town.

Verse ConceptsNot Knowing The FutureThose Who Rose Early

Then the secret force came quickly from their place, and running forward when they saw his hand stretched out, went into the town and took it, and put fire to it straight away.

Verse ConceptsSpearsGroups RunningBurning Cities

the spies spotted a man leaving the city. They said to him, "If you show us a secret entrance into the city, we will reward you."

Verse ConceptsJudging

He showed them a secret entrance into the city, and they put the city to the sword. But they let the man and his extended family leave safely.

But he himself turned again from the quarries that were by Gilgal, and said, I have a secret errand unto thee, O king: who said, Keep silence. And all that stood by him went out from him.

Verse ConceptsInformation In SecretCurbing Speech

Then he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and put his brothers, the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, to death on the same stone; however, Jotham, the youngest, kept himself safe by going away to a secret place.

Verse ConceptsCriminalsThe Youngest ChildBeing Killed By A RockHiding From PeopleSole SurvivorsSeventiesKilling BrothersHalf brothersanniversary

And the townsmen of Shechem put secret watchers on the tops of the mountains, and they made attacks on all who went by on the road and took their goods; and word of this came to Abimelech.

Verse ConceptsAmbushRobbing PeopleTelling Of Happenings

He sent messengers to Abimelech in secret and told him, "Look out! Ebed's son Gaal and his family have arrived here in Shechem. Watch out! They're stirring up the city against you.

Verse ConceptsMessengers Sent OutThose Who Deceived

And the angel of the LORD said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

Verse ConceptsUnintelligiblenessWhat Is God's Name?

And the chiefs of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Make use of your power over him and see what is the secret of his great strength, and how we may get the better of him, and put bands on him, so that we may make him feeble; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.

Verse ConceptsCoinageEnticementEnticingTying Up

So Delilah asked Samson, "Please tell me the secret to your great strength and how you may be tied up and tortured."

Verse ConceptsTemptressesTying UpWomen's Strength

While the men in ambush were waiting in her room, she called out to him, “Samson, the Philistines are here!” But he snapped the bowstrings as a strand of yarn snaps when it touches fire. The secret of his strength remained unknown.

Verse ConceptsAmbush

She said to him, "How can you say, 'I love you,' when you will not share your secret with me? Three times you have deceived me and have not told me what makes you so strong."

Verse ConceptsCommunicating Three TimesIndividuals Who LiedMen And Women Who Loved

Finally he told her his secret. He said to her, "My hair has never been cut, for I have been dedicated to God from the time I was conceived. If my head were shaved, my strength would leave me; I would become weak, and be just like all other men."

Verse ConceptsAbstinenceAsceticism, People PracticingBeardsHairsHeadsKnivesShavingYielding To TemptationSeparated To GodLong HairFrom The WombHair

When Delilah saw that he had told her his secret, she sent for the rulers of the Philistines, saying, "Come up here again, for he has told me his secret." So the rulers of the Philistines went up to visit her, bringing the silver in their hands.

Verse ConceptsBetrayalRulersBetrayal, Example Of

Now the young Samuel was the servant of the Lord before Eli. In those days the Lord kept his word secret from men; there was no open vision.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Famine,Speech, DivineVisionsWord Of GodDecadenceNo VisionsReceiving God's Wordministering

And it was so, that, after they had carried it about, the hand of the LORD was against the city with a very great destruction: and he smote the men of the city, both small and great, and they had emerods in their secret parts.

And the Philistines sent for the priests and those who were wise in secret arts, and said to them, What are we to do with the ark of the Lord? How are we to send it away to its place?

Then Saul commanded his servants, "Speak to David in secret, saying, 'Look, the king [is] pleased with you, and all his servants love you. So then, become a son-in-law of the king.'"

Verse ConceptsPrivacySons In LawThose Who Loved

But Jonathan Saul's son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

Verse ConceptsHiding From Peoplesaul

And he said to him, Far be the thought: you will not be put to death: see, my father does nothing, great or small, without giving me word of it: would he keep this secret from me? It is not so.

Verse ConceptsSmallnessFar Be It!Things RevealedThose Who Did Not Tell

So David went to a secret place in the country: and when the new moon came, the king took his place at the feast.

Verse ConceptsSittingHiding From PeopleEating Meathiding

And when the boy had gone, David came from his secret place by the hill, and falling to the earth went down on his face three times: and they gave one another a kiss, weeping together, till David's grief was the greater.

Verse ConceptsPeople KissingKissingSuffering, Emotional Aspects OfSympathyWeepingFriendship, Examples OfKissesTearsActing Three Timesgoodbyes

And Saul said to him, Why have you made designs against me with the son of Jesse, giving him food and a sword and getting directions from the Lord for him, and helping him to take up arms against me, and to be on the watch to make a secret attack on me as he is doing now?

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesAmbush

And Ahimelech answered the king and said, And who is so faithful among all thy servants as David, who is the king's son-in-law, and has access to thy secret council, and is honourable in thy house?

Verse ConceptsCaptainsGuardsLoyaltySons In Law

So take care to get knowledge of all the secret places where he is taking cover, and be certain to come back to me, and I will go with you: and without doubt, if he is anywhere in the land, I will get him, among all the families of Judah.

Verse ConceptsHuntingHiding From People

and it hath come to pass, she is riding on the ass and is coming down in the secret part of the hill-country, and lo, David and his men are coming down to meet her, and she meeteth them.

Verse ConceptsRiding Donkeys

Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel, after weeping for him, had put his body in its last resting-place in Ramah, his town. And Saul had put away from the land all those who had control of spirits and who made use of secret arts.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentProphets, Lives OfSpiritismFortunetellingSpiritism AvoidedMourning The Death Of OthersOccultismwitchespsychics

And the woman said to him, But you have knowledge of what Saul has done, how he has put away out of the land those who have control of spirits and the users of secret arts: why would you, by a trick, put me in danger of death?

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyTrapMan TrappingSpiritism Avoidedpsychics

But the chiefs of the children of Ammon said to Hanun their lord, Does it seem to you that David is honouring your father by sending comforters to you? has he not sent his servants to go through the town and make secret observation of it, and overcome it?

Verse ConceptsFalse Accusations, Examples OfPrejudiceSpiesAccusations, False ExamplesSpying

You acted in secret, but I will do this before all Israel and in broad daylight.’”

Verse ConceptsActing In SecretDuring The DayThings Manifest

But Absalom sent spies throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, “As soon as you hear the sound of the trumpet, you shall say, ‘Absalom is king in Hebron.’”

Verse ConceptsDavid, Reign OfChildren, Bad KidsRebellion, Against Human AuthoritySecrecyTrumpetUnfaithfulness, To PeopleWicked Children, Examples OfTrumpets For CelebrationSpying

But he will certainly have taken cover now in some hole or secret place; and if some of our people, at the first attack, are overcome, then any hearing of it will say, There is destruction among the people who are on Absalom's side.

Verse ConceptsCavesPeople In CavesHiding From PeopleKilling Will HappenCaves As Places Of Refuge

And if I had falsely put him to death (and nothing may be kept secret from the king), you would have had nothing to do with me.

Verse ConceptsThings RevealedUnfaithful

Then the men of Israel came to the king and said, Why have our countrymen of Judah taken you away in secret and come over Jordan with the king and all his family, because all his people are David's men?

They will be wasted away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.

Verse ConceptsForeignersGroups Tremblingcrusades

Give ear in heaven your living-place, acting in mercy; and give to every man whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of all the children of men:

Verse ConceptsHousesImagination, Inward DesiresOutward AppearanceGod, Omniscience OfHeart, Known To GodGod, All knowingGod Acts From HeavenGod Forgive!God Knowing the Human Heart

And Solomon gave her answers to all her questions; there was no secret which the king did not make clear to her.

Verse ConceptsRiddlesAnswering People

And Baasha, the son of Ahijah, of the family of Issachar, made a secret design against him, attacking him at Gibbethon, a town of the Philistines; for Nadab and the armies of Israel were making war on Gibbethon.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesKilling KingsThe Nations Attacked

And his servant Zimri, captain of half his war-carriages, made secret designs against him: now he was in Tirzah, drinking hard in the house of Arza, controller of the king's house in Tirzah.

Verse Conceptsdrinking, abstention fromConspiraciesHalf Of GroupsDrunk IndividualsConspiracy

And news came to the people in the tents that Zimri had made a secret design and had put the king to death: so all Israel made Omri, the captain of the army, king that day in the tents.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesMaking KingsList Of Kings Of Israel

Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the secret design he made, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesHistorical Books

Go from here in the direction of the east, and keep yourself in a secret place by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan.

Verse ConceptsDivine DirectionHiding From PeopleBeyond JordanBrooks

Has my lord not had word of what I did when Jezebel was putting the Lord's prophets to death? how I kept a hundred of them in a secret hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water?

Verse ConceptsSchool Of ProphetsFiftiesOne HundredPeople In CavesKilling ProphetsPeople Hiding PeopleProphets Killedjezebel

And when she came to where the man of God was on the hill, she put her hands round his feet; and Gehazi came near with the purpose of pushing her away; but the man of God said, Let her be, for her soul is bitter in her; and the Lord has kept it secret from me, and has not given me word of it.

Verse ConceptsGraspingLeave Them AloneGod's Things ConcealedMan Of God

At that time the king of Aram was making war against Israel; and he had a meeting with the chiefs of his army and said, I will be waiting in secret in some named place.

Verse Conceptsenemies, of Israel and JudahOfficersMan's Counsel

And the man of God sent to the king of Israel, saying, Take care to keep away from that place, for the Aramaeans are waiting there in secret.

Verse ConceptsWarning IndividualsMan Of God

So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.

Verse ConceptsPeople Hiding PeopleThe Death Of BabiesMothers And SonsKidsHaving A Babycookingbabystories

And when those lepers came to the outer line of tents, they went into one tent, and had food and drink, and took from it silver and gold and clothing, which they put in a secret place; then they came back and went into another tent from which they took more goods, which they put away in a secret place.

Verse ConceptsGoldDivine SuppliesHidden Things

Now when Joram saw Jehu he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he said in answer, What peace is possible while all the land is full of the disgusting sins of your mother Jezebel, and her secret arts?

Verse ConceptsSpiritual HarlotryMothers, Examples OfMothers Of KingsAvoid Sorcerywitchesjezebel

And his servants made a secret design and put Joash to death at the house of Millo on the way down to Silla.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesMurderPlotting

Now they made a secret design against him in Jerusalem; and he went in flight to Lachish, but they sent after him to Lachish and put him to death there.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesPlottingKilling KingsConspiracy

And Shallum, the son of Jabesh, made a secret design against him, and, attacking him in Ibleam, put him to death and became king in his place.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesKilling KingsKings Of The Northern KingdomList Of Kings Of Israel

Now the rest of the acts of Shallum, and the secret design which he made, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesHistorical Books

And Pekah, the son of Remaliah, his captain, made a secret design against him, attacking him in the king's great house in Samaria; and with him were fifty men of Gilead; and he put him to death and became king in his place.

Verse ConceptsCitadelsConspiraciesOfficersPalacesFiftiesKilling KingsKings Of The Northern KingdomList Of Kings Of IsraelReuben Gad And Half Manasseh

And Hoshea, the son of Elah, made a secret design against Pekah, the son of Remaliah, and, attacking him, put him to death and became king in his place, in the twentieth year of Jotham, the son of Uzziah.

Verse ConceptsConspiraciesKilling KingsKings Of The Northern KingdomList Of Kings Of Israel

The Israelis practiced secret things that were not right, offending the LORD their God. In addition, they built high places for use by all their towns, watchtowers, and fortified cities.

Verse ConceptsSecrecySecret SinsConcealment, Of SinActing In Secret

And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.

Verse ConceptsFalse ReligionChild sacrificeProvoking GodConsultationsPagan PracticesCharacter Of WickedDivinationmagicwitches

And he made his son go through the fire, and made use of secret arts and signs for reading the future; he gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers; he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.

Verse ConceptsAstrologyFireChild sacrificeMediumsProvoking GodSacrifice, In OtSorcery And MagicSpiritismSpiritsIdolatry, Wicked Practices OfPagan PracticesInfanticideHuman SacrificesFortunetellingNecromancyOccultismTime PassingSorcerypsychics

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Confidential (3 instances)
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Hidden (221 instances)
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Privy (5 instances)
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Secret (362 instances)
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Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מסתּר 
Mictar 
Usage: 10

סתרה סתר 
Cether 
Usage: 36

עלם 
`alam 
Usage: 28

צפן 
Tsaphan 
Usage: 32

אט 
'at 
Usage: 6

חבא 
Chaba' 
Usage: 33

חפא 
Chapha' 
Usage: 1

חרשׁ 
Cheresh 
Usage: 1

טמן 
Taman 
Usage: 31

לט 
Lat 
Usage: 6

מחתּרת 
Machtereth 
Usage: 2

סוד 
Cowd 
Usage: 21

שׂתם סתם 
Catham 
stop , shut up , hidden , shut out , secret , close up
Usage: 14

סתר 
Cathar 
Usage: 81

סתר 
C@thar (Aramaic) 
Usage: 2

פּתה פּת 
Poth 
Usage: 2

רז 
Raz (Aramaic) 
Usage: 9

תּעלמּה 
Ta`alummah 
Usage: 3

ἀπόκρυφος 
Apokruphos 
Usage: 1

κρυπτός 
Kruptos 
Usage: 8

κρύπτω 
Krupto 
Usage: 10

λάθρα 
Lathra 
Usage: 4

σιγάω 
Sigao 
Usage: 9

ταμεῖον 
Tameion 
Usage: 0

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