diff --git a/libs/partners/huggingface/langchain_huggingface/embeddings/huggingface.py b/libs/partners/huggingface/langchain_huggingface/embeddings/huggingface.py
index 3eee5252c6de1..2bbc551f4e0b1 100644
--- a/libs/partners/huggingface/langchain_huggingface/embeddings/huggingface.py
+++ b/libs/partners/huggingface/langchain_huggingface/embeddings/huggingface.py
@@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ def __init__(self, **kwargs: Any):
         protected_namespaces=(),
     )
 
-    def embed(
+    def _embed(
         self, texts: list[str], encode_kwargs: Dict[str, Any]
     ) -> List[List[float]]:
         """
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ def embed_documents(self, texts: List[str]) -> List[List[float]]:
         Returns:
             List of embeddings, one for each text.
         """
-        return self.embed(texts, self.encode_kwargs)
+        return self._embed(texts, self.encode_kwargs)
 
     def embed_query(self, text: str) -> List[float]:
         """Compute query embeddings using a HuggingFace transformer model.
@@ -132,4 +132,4 @@ def embed_query(self, text: str) -> List[float]:
             if len(self.query_encode_kwargs) > 0
             else self.encode_kwargs
         )
-        return self.embed([text], embed_kwargs)[0]
+        return self._embed([text], embed_kwargs)[0]