עָלַם

Leviticus 4:13 וְנֶעְלַ֣ם and it will be hidden

Now if the whole congregation of Israel strays unintentionally and the matter escapes the notice of the assembly so that they violate any of the LORD’s commandments and incur guilt by doing what is forbidden,

Leviticus 5:2 וְנֶעְלַ֣ם and it will be hidden

Or if a person touches anything unclean—whether the carcass of any unclean wild animal or livestock or crawling creature—even if he is unaware of it, he is unclean and guilty.

Here: 'And it was hidden.' The contact, and so the impurity it caused, escaped his notice. This hiddenness is what makes the case: he did not know, so he did not wash and wait as he should have.

Leviticus 5:3 וְנֶעְלַ֣ם and it will be hidden

Or if he touches human uncleanness—anything by which one becomes unclean—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty.

Leviticus 5:4 וְנֶעְלַ֣ם and it will be hidden

Or if someone swears thoughtlessly with his lips to do anything good or evil—in whatever matter a man may rashly pronounce an oath—even if he is unaware of it, when he realizes it, he is guilty in the matter.

Leviticus 20:4 הַעְלֵ֣ם יַעְלִימֽוּ֩ certainly <to hide>, they will hide

And if the people of the land ever hide their eyes and fail to put to death the man who gives one of his children to Molech,

Numbers 5:13 וְנֶעְלַם֙ and it will be hidden

by sleeping with another man, and it is concealed from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she was not caught in the act),

Deuteronomy 22:1 וְהִתְעַלַּמְתָּ֖ and you will hide yourself

If you see your brother’s ox or sheep straying, you must not ignore it; be sure to return it to your brother.

Here: 'And you hide yourself'. The verb form is reflexive: you do something to yourself to become unseeing. It describes deliberately turning a blind eye, not simply failing to notice.

Deuteronomy 22:3 לְהִתְעַלֵּֽם׃ ס to hide yourself

And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.

Deuteronomy 22:4 וְהִתְעַלַּמְתָּ֖ and you will hide yourself

If you see your brother’s donkey or ox fallen on the road, you must not ignore it; you must help him lift it up.

Here: 'And you hide yourself.' The verb form is reflexive: you deliberately make yourself not see, and pretend you were never there. This is the act the verse forbids.

1 Samuel 12:3 וְאַעְלִ֥ים so I may hide

Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.”

Here: 'And I made (my eyes) hidden': deliberately not seeing. The form describes the result of the payoff: the judge looks away.

1 Kings 10:3 נֶעְלָ֣ם hidden

And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for the king to explain.

2 Kings 4:27 הֶעְלִ֣ים he has hidden

When she reached the man of God at the mountain, she clung to his feet. Gehazi came over to push her away, but the man of God said, “Leave her alone, for her soul is in deep distress, and the LORD has hidden it from me and has not told me.”

Here: "Has hidden." God actively kept it from him. Hebrew has no word for "it"; the hidden thing is whatever has caused her grief.

2 Chronicles 9:2 נֶעְלַ֤ם it was concealed

And Solomon answered all her questions; nothing was too difficult for him to explain.

Job 6:16 יִתְעַלֶּם־ it hides itself

darkened because of the ice and the inflow of melting snow,

Job 28:21 וְֽ֭נֶעֶלְמָה and it has been concealed

It is hidden from the eyes of every living thing and concealed from the birds of the air.

Job 42:3 מַעְלִ֥ים [is] concealing

You asked, ‘Who is this who conceals My counsel without knowledge?’ Surely I spoke of things I did not understand, things too wonderful for me to know.

Here: A participle, so it describes someone in the act of hiding something, or habitually doing it. God's original question in 38:2 said 'darkening' (maḥšîk). Job recalls it as 'hiding': his words covered up God's design when they should have shown it.

Psalm 10:1 תַּ֝עְלִ֗ים do you hide?

Why, O LORD, do You stand far off? Why do You hide in times of trouble?

Here: A causative form that normally takes an object. Elsewhere the object is 'eyes' or 'ear' (Isa 1:15; Prov 28:27; Lam 3:56), meaning to look away on purpose or refuse to hear. Here the object is left out, so the sense is 'Why do you hide your eyes?': why do you act as if you do not see?

Psalm 26:4 נַ֝עֲלָמִ֗ים [those who] conceal themselves

I do not sit with deceitful men, nor keep company with hypocrites.

Here: A participle (a verb used as a noun) from the root "to hide": "the hidden ones", people whose real intentions and doings stay out of sight. They are dissemblers and schemers who work under cover. The modern sense of "hypocrite" (someone who does not practise what he preaches) is only part of it.

Psalm 55:1 תִּ֝תְעַלַּ֗ם you hide yourself

For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments. A Maskil of David. Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea.

Here: A reflexive form, 'hide yourself'. In Israel's law this is the verb for deliberately looking away from someone you are obliged to help (Deut 22:1–4; Isa 58:7). The psalmist asks God not to turn a blind eye.

Psalm 90:8 עֲ֝לֻמֵ֗נוּ concealed [sins] our

You have set our iniquities before You, our secret sins in the light of Your presence.

Here: Literally 'our hidden [thing]', a singular used for a whole group. The Hebrew has no word for 'sins' here; context supplies it. It covers what we hid from others and what is hidden even from ourselves.

Proverbs 28:27 וּמַעְלִ֥ים and [one who] hides

Whoever gives to the poor will not be in need, but he who hides his eyes will receive many curses.

Here: 'And' plus a causative participle of ʿālam, 'to hide': one who keeps something hidden, here his own eyes. It mirrors 'one who gives' at the start of the first half, so the verse sets two kinds of person side by side.

Ecclesiastes 12:14 נֶעְלָ֑ם hidden thing

For God will bring every deed into judgment, along with every hidden thing, whether good or evil.

Here: Literally "what is hidden". The word covers things hidden from other people and from human courts. In Leviticus it also describes wrongs hidden even from the person who did them (Lev 5:2–4).

Isaiah 1:15 אַעְלִ֤ים I will hide

When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

Here: Causative form of 'to be hidden': 'I make (my eyes) hidden', meaning I deliberately look away. The tense can be ongoing ('I keep hiding') or future ('I will hide'). God refuses to look at the gesture.

Isaiah 58:7 תִתְעַלָּֽם׃ you will hide yourself

Isn’t it to share your bread with the hungry, to bring the poor and homeless into your home, to clothe the naked when you see him, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?

Here: 'Hide yourself.' The reflexive form describes deliberately looking away and acting as if you had not noticed. It is the same verb Deuteronomy 22:1–4 uses to forbid ignoring a fellow Israelite's lost or fallen animal.

Lamentations 3:56 תַּעְלֵ֧ם you hide

You heard my plea: “Do not ignore my cry for relief.”

Ezekiel 22:26 הֶעְלִ֣ימוּ they have hidden

Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.

Here: "They hid." Hiding the eyes is deliberate not-looking. The same verb is used for the community that looks away from child sacrifice (Lev 20:4) and for a bribe that blinds a judge's eyes (1 Sam 12:3).

Nahum 3:11 נַֽעֲלָמָ֑ה hidden

You too will become drunk; you will go into hiding and seek refuge from the enemy.