Hebrew word · H5644
סִתְרִי
vesitri
Sithri
The name comes from sēter, 'hiding place, covering, shelter, secret place', with the ending -î, 'my'. It means 'my shelter' or 'my hiding place'. It is most likely a shortened form of a longer name that included God, such as 'Yah is my shelter'.
Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament. ·
What it means
A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at Exo.6.22;
son of: Uzziel (H5816);
brother of: Mishael (H4332), Elizaphan (H0469), Micah (H4318J) and Isshiah (H3449I)
§ Zithri = "protection of Jehovah"
1) son of Uzziel and grandson of Kohath the son of Levi
1a) more properly 'Sithri'
Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).
In depth
- Range of meaning
The name comes from sēter, 'hiding place, covering, shelter, secret place', with the ending -î, 'my'. It means 'my shelter' or 'my hiding place'. It is most likely a shortened form of a longer name that included God, such as 'Yah is my shelter'.
- Against the English
KJV writes 'Zithri'. Modern versions (BSB, WEB, YLT, NIV, ESV) write 'Sithri', which better matches the Hebrew samekh (an s sound).
- Used elsewhere in the period
He appears only here in the Bible. The noun sēter is used for God as a refuge: 'You are my hiding place' (Psalm 32:7; 119:114), and 'He who dwells in the shelter (sēter) of the Most High' (Psalm 91:1).
Where it appears
Exodus · 1
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Exodus 6:22 וְסִתְרִֽי׃ and Sithri
The sons of Uzziel were Mishael, Elzaphan, and Sithri.
Here: Uzziel's third son, mentioned nowhere else in the Bible. The name means 'my hiding place' or 'my shelter', probably a shortened form of a longer name such as 'God/Yah is my shelter'. It echoes the 'hiding' idea in his brother's name, Elzaphan.
Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.