sa.tar describes concealment from sight or knowledge, including repeated clauses in which someone hides his face.

The verb most often concerns people or objects being kept from sight or escaping detection; it also describes matters, wisdom, and other things kept concealed, and repeatedly occurs in clauses about hiding one’s face. The supplied forms include active concealment in Hiphil and persons or things being hidden in Niphal, with Hithpael participles describing someone in hiding.

1. Keeping persons or objects out of sight · dominant

   Niphal forms describe a person becoming hidden or hiding himself: in 1 Samuel 20:5 the APB renders David’s plan, “I will hide in the field,” and in 1 Samuel 23:19 the Hithpael participle occurs in the report that David is “hiding” in the strongholds. Hiphil forms describe someone concealing another: in 2 Chronicles 22:11 the APB says Joash was hidden from Athaliah, while Amos 9:3 portrays people hiding themselves where they expect not to be found.

   1 Samuel 20:51 Samuel 23:192 Chronicles 22:11Amos 9:3Jeremiah 36:19Jeremiah 36:26
2. Withholding sight through a hidden face · common

   Hiphil clauses repeatedly take “face” in contexts of estrangement, judgment, fear, or appeal. In Deuteronomy 31:17 the first-person sequential perfect occurs as the APB renders, “hide my face from them,” followed by trouble coming upon the people; in Psalm 104:29 the same pattern is followed by creatures’ dismay, and Job 13:24 asks why the face is hidden and the speaker counted as an enemy.

   Deuteronomy 31:17Deuteronomy 31:18Deuteronomy 32:20Psalm 104:29Job 13:24Isaiah 54:8
3. Keeping a matter or condition concealed · common

   The verb can concern what is unavailable to sight or discovery rather than a person’s physical location. In Proverbs 25:2 the Hiphil imperative appears in the clause the APB renders, “conceal a matter,” contrasted with kings searching it out; Job 28:21 says that wisdom is hidden from every living thing, and Isaiah 29:15 speaks of hiding counsel from the LORD. Numbers 5:13 uses a Niphal form for an act concealed from a husband’s eyes.

   Proverbs 25:2Job 28:21Isaiah 29:15Numbers 5:13Proverbs 27:5Psalm 119:19

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB commonly uses “hide,” “hidden,” and “conceal,” including “hide my face” in the face clauses. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the clauses’ overall presentation without assigning every English token directly to the lemma.