Limitless Word
חָפַשׂchâphas/khaw-fas'/
HebrewH266423 occurrences (KJV)

to seek; causatively, to conceal oneself (i.e. let be sought), or mask

KJV renders it: change, (make) diligent (search), disquise self, hide, search (for, out).

Where it appears(showing the first 20 of 23)

  • Gen 31:35She said to her father, “Don’t let my lord be angry that I can’t rise up before you; for I’m having my period.” He searched, but didn’t find the teraphim.
  • Gen 44:12He searched, beginning with the oldest, and ending at the youngest. The cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
  • 1 Sam 23:23See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking places where he hides himself, and come again to me with certainty, and I will go with you. It shall happen, if he is in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.”
  • 1 Sam 28:8Saul disguised himself and put on other clothing, and went, he and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night. Then he said, “Please consult for me by the familiar spirit, and bring me up whomever I shall name to you.”
  • 1 Kgs 20:6but I will send my servants to you tomorrow about this time, and they will search your house, and the houses of your servants; whatever is pleasant in your eyes, they will put it in their hand, and take it away.”’”
  • 1 Kgs 20:38So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.
  • 1 Kgs 22:30The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” The king of Israel disguised himself, and went into the battle.
  • 2 Kgs 10:23Jehu went with Jehonadab the son of Rechab into the house of Baal. Then he said to the worshipers of Baal, “Search, and see that none of the servants of Yahweh are here with you, but only the worshipers of Baal.”
  • 2 Chr 18:29The king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, “I will disguise myself, and go into the battle; but you put on your robes.” So the king of Israel disguised himself; and they went into the battle.
  • 2 Chr 35:22Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and didn’t listen to the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.
  • Job 30:18By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
  • Ps 64:6They plot injustice, saying, “We have made a perfect plan!” Surely man’s mind and heart are cunning.
  • Ps 77:6I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires:
  • Prov 2:4If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
  • Prov 20:27The spirit of man is Yahweh’s lamp, searching all his innermost parts.
  • Prov 28:12When the righteous triumph, there is great glory; but when the wicked rise, men hide themselves.
  • Lam 3:40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Yahweh.
  • Amos 9:3Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
  • Obad 1:6How Esau will be ransacked! How his hidden treasures are sought out!
  • Zeph 1:12It will happen at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will punish the men who are settled on their dregs, who say in their heart, “Yahweh will not do good, neither will he do evil.”

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.