- Original: סתרה סתר
- Transliteration: Cether
- Phonetic: say'-ther
- Definition: n m 
1. covering, shelter, hiding place, secrecy 
a. covering, cover 
b. hiding place, shelter, secret place 
c. secrecy 
1. secrecy (of tongue being slanderous) n f 
2. shelter, protection 
- Origin: from  
H5641  
- TWOT entry: 1551a,1551b
- Part(s) of speech: 
- Strong's: From  
H5641  ; a cover (in a good or a bad a literal or a figurative sense): - backbiting covering covert X disguise [-th] hiding place privily protection secret (-ly place). 
Total KJV Occurrences: 36 
 • backbiting, 1
 
Proverbs 25:23 
 
 • covering, 1
 
Job 22:14 
 
 • covert, 5
 
1 Samuel 25:20; 
Job 40:21; 
Psalm 61:4; 
Isaiah 16:4; 
Isaiah 32:2 
 
 • disguiseth, 1
 
Job 24:15 
 
 • place, 6
 
Psalm 18:11; 
Psalm 32:7; 
Psalm 81:7; 
Psalm 91:1; 
Psalm 119:114; 
Isaiah 28:17 
 
 • privily, 1
 
Psalm 101:5 
 
 • protection, 1
 
Deuteronomy 32:38 
 
 • secret, 11
 
Deuteronomy 27:15; 
Judges 3:19; 
1 Samuel 19:2; 
Psalm 27:5; 
Psalm 31:20; 
Psalm 139:15; 
Proverbs 9:17; 
Proverbs 21:14; 
Song of Songs 2:14; 
Isaiah 45:19; 
Isaiah 48:16 
 
 • secretly, 9
 
Deuteronomy 13:6; 
Deuteronomy 27:24; 
Deuteronomy 28:57; 
2 Samuel 12:12; 
Job 13:10; 
Job 31:27; 
Jeremiah 37:17; 
Jeremiah 38:16; 
Jeremiah 40:15