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Strong's #2934 - טָמַן
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- Strong
1) to hide, conceal, bury
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to hide
1a2) hiding, concealing, secretly laying (participle)
1a3) darkness (participle)
1b) (Niphal) to hide oneself
1c) (Hiphil) to hide
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2234) nmu (תהמנ ThMN) AC: Hide CO: Treasure AB: ?
V) nmu (תהמנ ThMN) - Hide: KJV (31): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Participle) hide, lay, secret - Strongs: H2934 (טָמַן)
acm) nfmum (מתהמונ MThMWN) - Treasure: What is hidden. KJV (5): treasure, riches - Strongs: H4301 (מַטְמֻן)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
bury, hide (loan-word Frä137); Aramaic 
, טְמַר id.); — Qal Perfect טְמֵן Psalm 35:8 2t. etc; Imperfect וַיִּטְמֹן Genesis 35:4, etc.; Imperative suffix טָמְנֵהוּ Jeremiah 13:4; טָמְנֵם Job 40:13; Infinitive construct לִטְמוֺן Job 31:33; Psalm 64:6; Passive participle טָמוּן Job 3:16 3t.; טְמוּנָה Joshua 7:22; plural טְמֻנִים Joshua 7:21; construct טְמוּנֵי Deuteronomy 33:19; —
1 hide, with accusative Genesis 35:4 (E), Exodus 2:12 (E; dead body in sand), Joshua 2:6 (J E; spies under flax-stalks), Joshua 7:21,22 (J E; Achan's theft), Jeremiah 13:4,5,6,7 (Jeremiah's girdle), Jeremiah 43:9,10 (stones at Tahpanhes); hide, bury hand in dish (צַלָּ֑חַת) Proverbs 19:24; Proverbs 26:15 (of עָצֵל the sluggard); נֵפֶלטָמוּן Job 3:16 hidden abortion, i.e. a lifeless child at once buried; שְׂפֻנֵי טְמוּנֵי חול Deuteronomy 33:19 (poem); of hiding iniquity עון Job 31:33; hiding the wicked in the dust עפר Job 40:13.
2 often of hiding, concealing, secretly laying a snare רֶשֶׁת Psalm 9:16; Psalm 35:8, followed by לִי Psalm 31:5; שַׁחַת רִשְׁתָּם Psalm 35:7; מַּח followed by לִי Psalm 140:6; Psalm 142:4; followed by לרגלי Jeremiah 18:22; חבל Job 18:10; מוֺקשׁים Psalm 64:5.
3טָמוּן that which is darkened = darkness, Job 40:13 nearly = ׃שְׁאוֺל׳פניהם חֲבשׁ בט bind their faces in darkness (i.e. the wicked); hide = reserve Job 20:26 all darkness is held in reserve for his treasures, i.e. all calamities are stored up for them.
Niph`al Imperative חִטָּמֵן בֶּעָפָר׳מִמְּנֵי מַּחַד י Isaiah 2:10 hide thyself in the dust, from before the terror of ׳י.
Hiph`il (or
Qal? Ba ZMG 1889,180) Imperfect וַיֵּלִכוּ וַיַּטְמִנוּ 2 Kings 7:8 (twice in verse) and they went and hid (it), i.e. plunder from Aramaic camp.
טָמַן (cogn. to צָפַן) to hide, Joshua 2:6; Job 31:33 specially under the earth, to bury, Genesis 35:4; Exodus 2:12; Joshua 7:21, 22 Joshua 7:22; Jeremiah 43:10. טָמַן פַּח לִ Psalms 140:6, 142:4 ט׳ רֶשֶׁת לְ Psalms 9:16, 31:5, to hide a snare or a net for any one, i.e. to plot against him, comp. Psalms 64:6; Job 18:10. נֶפֶל טָמוּן a hidden abortion, Job 3:16. Followed by לְ to hide for some one, to reserve for him. Job 20:26, כָּל־חשֶׁךְ טָמוּן לִצְפוּנָיו “all darkness (or calamity) is hid (reserved) in his treasuries.” A play of words is here to be observed in the use of the cognate words טָמוּן and צָפוּן. Similar is Deuteronomy 33:19, שְׂפֻנֵי טְמוּנֵי חוֹל “the most secret of the hidden things of sand” (to be understood of glass [???]). Facetiously used, Proverbs 19:24, טָמַן עָצֵל יָדוֹ בַּצַּלַּחַת “the slothful man hides his hand in the dish.” The hand of a lazy man is well described as being dipped slowly and deeply in the dish.
Niphal, to hide one’s self underground, Isaiah 2:10.
Hiphil i.q. Kal, 2 Kings 7:8.
[In Thes. the primary meaning is said to be that of immersing, as found in many roots beginning with the syllables טם, טב.]
Derivative מַטְמוֹן.
