H5848 עָטַף
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 15 KJV occurrences
עָטַף
ʻâṭaph · aw-taf'
Definition
to shroud, i.e. clothe (whether transitive or reflex.); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish
KJV Renderings
cover (over), fail, faint, feebler, hide self, be overwhelmed, swoon.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 15)
- Genesis 30:42But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
- Genesis 30:42But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
- Psalms 61:2From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
- Psalms 73:6Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
- Psalms 107:5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
- Psalms 143:4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
- Lamentations 2:11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
- Lamentations 2:19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.