עָלַף
ʻâlaph · H5968 · Hebrew · 5 occurrences
Meanings
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to become faint
Process by which humans lose their strength as a result of a prolonged period of exertion and the need for food, drink and rest
ExamplesIsaiah 51:20 Your sons have fainted, They lie helpless at the head of every street, Like an antelope in a net, Full of the wrath of the LORD, The rebuke of your God.
Amos 8:13 “On that day the beautiful virgins And the young men will faint from thirst.
Jonah 4:8 And when the sun came up God designated a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he became faint, and he begged with all his soul to die, saying, “Death is better to me than life!”
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to be covered
State in which a substance is covered by a variety of objects
ExamplesSong of Solomon 5:14 “His hands are rods of gold Set with topaz; His abdomen is panels of ivory Covered with sapphires.
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to veil oneself or disguise oneself
Possibly an action by which humans wrap a piece of cloth around their body, perhaps to avoid being recognized, though the exact meaning is unsure
ExamplesGenesis 38:14 So she removed her widow’s garments and covered herself with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in the gateway of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
5 occurrences in 5 groups
- Not stated: he, she or it 2
- בֵּןson 1
- בְּתוּלָהvirgin, young woman 1
- בָּחוּרyoung man 1
- Not stated (participle) 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with+ יוֹםday, time 1
- בin/on/with+ צָמָאthirst 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Weak002001001069
- עָלַף describes fainting or growing feeble, as in Isaiah 51:20's sons who "lie helpless" and Amos 8:13's virgins and young men who "faint from thirst."
- Cover002003001005
- The word also describes being covered or overlaid, part of its range beyond the fainting-sense citations shown here.
- Dress002003001007
- The word likewise describes wrapping oneself, as in Genesis 38:14's Tamar who "wrapped herself" in a veil.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5968. alaph [עָלַף] verb cover (Late Hebrew id., cover, faint; Arabic smear, II. cover,…
[עָלַף] verb cover (Late Hebrew id., cover, faint; Arabic smear, II. cover, sheath; Assyrian elpitu, pining, exhaustion); —
Pu`al Participle feminine covered, encrusted, construct מְעֻלֶּפֶת Son 5:14 his belly if ivory encrusted with sapphires. Perfect3plural עֻלְּפוּ בָּנַיִךְ Isa 51:20 thy sons are enshrouded, enwrapped, i.e. their senses obscured = have swooned away; so also Eze 31:15, reading 3feminine singular עֻלָּ֑פָה for substantive עֻלְמֶּה (Köii. 1, 118), all the trees have fainted for (עַל) him (so ᵑ9 ᵑ6 ᵐ5 Hi Co and others).
Hithpa`el enwrap oneself, Imperfect3feminine singular וַתִּתְעַלָּ֑ף Gen 38:14 (J); = swoon away, 3 masculine singular וַיִּתְעַלָּ֑ף Jon 4:8; Jon 4:3feminine plural תִּתְעַלַּפְנָה Amo 8:13.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 3 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
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