ta.man denotes placing people or things in a concealed location, including goods, bodies, traps, and a hand in a dish.

The attested use consistently concerns putting someone or something into a location where it is kept concealed: a body in sand, valuables under an oak or in a tent, people among flax, and objects in a rock cleft. Passive forms describe what has been so placed, while the same action can concern traps and even a hand put into a dish.

1. Putting someone or something in a concealed place · dominant

   Across active forms, the verb marks placing a person or object in a stated location: in Exodus 2:12 the APB renders that the Egyptian was "hid ... in the sand," and in Genesis 35:4 Jacob "hid them under the oak." In Joshua 2:6 the men are hidden among flax, Jeremiah 13:4 commands that a girdle be hidden in a cleft of the rock, and 2 Kings 7:8 describes silver, gold, and garments being carried away and hidden; Proverbs 19:24 uses the action for a hand buried in a dish.

   Exodus 2:12Genesis 35:4Joshua 2:6Jeremiah 13:42 Kings 7:8Proverbs 19:24

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly uses "hide," "hid," and "hidden" in clauses such as Exodus 2:12, Genesis 35:4, and Jeremiah 13:4. It also uses "buries" for the hand in Proverbs 19:24; these are translation renderings of whole verses.