Strong's Definition
a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense)
Derivation: or (feminine) סִתְרָה; (Deuteronomy [32:38), from H5641 (סָתַר);
KJV Usage: backbiting, covering, covert, [idiom] disguise(-th), hiding place, privily, protection, secret(-ly, place).
TWOT Reference: 1551a,b
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
סֵ֫תֶר (se.ter) — secrecy. 1) covering, shelter, hiding place, secrecy 1a) covering, cover 1b) hiding place, shelter, secret place 1c) secrecy 1c1) secrecy (of tongue being slanderous)
סִתְרָה (sit.rah) — shelter. shelter, protection
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · סתר
Hide
cover, shelter, disguise = state in which people, animals, or objects are in a location where they cannot be readily seen or where danger cannot reach them
1SA 25:20 · JOB 22:14 · JOB 24:15 · JOB 40:21 · PSA 18:12 · PSA 27:5 · PSA 31:21 · PSA 61:5 · PSA 81:8 · PSA 91:1 · PSA 139:15 · SNG 2:14 · ISA 16:4 · ISA 28:17 · ISA 32:2
Non-Know
secret, secrecy = state in which knowledge, an object, or an action is kept hidden or unknown from others
DEU 13:7 · DEU 27:15 · DEU 27:24 · DEU 28:57 · JDG 3:19 · 1SA 19:2 · 2SA 12:12 · JOB 13:10 · JOB 31:27 · PSA 101:5 · PRO 9:17 · PRO 21:14 · PRO 25:23 · ISA 45:19 · ISA 48:16 · JER 37:17 · JER 38:16 · JER 40:15
Titles
Shelter literally: (one's) shelter; hence: = a title for God as the one who provides a hiding place for his people
noun f · סתר
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
סֵ֫תֶר n.[m.] covering, hiding-place, secrecy base
סִתְרָה n.f. shelter, protection, De 32:38 ref