'Private' in the Bible

and Joanna the wife of Chuza, Herod’s steward, and Susanna, and many others who were contributing to their support out of their private means.

While He was praying in private and His disciples were with Him, He asked them, “Who do the crowds say that I am?”

Then turning to his disciples in private, he told them, "How blessed are the eyes that see what you see!

Therefore, whatever you have said in the dark will be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in an ear in private rooms will be proclaimed on the housetops.