cether, “secret place,” strong’s H5643

First occurrence

If your brother, the son of your mother, or your son, or your daughter, or the wife of your bosom, or your friend, who is as your own soul, entices you secretly, saying, “Let us go and serve other gods,” which you have not known, you, nor your fathers; … Deu 13:6

The primitive root

Strong’s H5643, cether, a concrete noun meaning, “hiding place;” from Strong’s H5641 סתר cathar, a primitive root meaning, “to hide, to conceal.” The ancient Hebrew pictographs are sin + tav + resh.

sin ס = the thorn, thus grab, hate, protect
tav ת = crossed sticks, thus mark, sign, signal, monument
resh ר = the head of man, thus head, first, top, beginning, man

The story being told is of a hedge of thorns (sin) which surrounds the marked (tav) man (resh). The meaning comes from its first occurrence in Scripture:

And Cain said to YHVH: “My punishment is greater than I can bear. Behold, You have driven me out this day from the face of the land; and from Your face I shall be hid (cathar); and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whoever finds me will slay me.” And YHVH said to him: “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.” And YHVH set a sign for Cain, lest any finding him should strike him. Gen 4:13-15

Now instead of being visible to those who would slay him, he was hidden, camouflaged, behind a hedge of protection.