Strong H58483 sensesעָטַף

be feeble · envelop oneself (Aramaism) · to turn aside

Transliteration
‛âţaph
Pronunciation
aw-taf'

The 3 senses of Strong H5848

The lexicon tells 3 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H5848 appears in 14 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. be feebleH5848Cto enfeeble11 verses · 5 books
  2. envelop oneself (Aramaism)H5848Bto envelope2 verses · Psalms
  3. to turn asideH5848A(Qal) to turn aside, turn (in order to cover)1 verse · Job

General definition

A primitive root; to {shroud} that {is} clothe (whether transitively or reflexively); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish: - cover ({over}) {fail} {faint} {feebler} hide {self} be {overwhelmed} swoon.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • overwhelm4
  • faint3
  • swoon2
  • be1
  • cover1
  • covereth1
  • fail1
  • feebler1
  • hideth1

First verses

  1. Genesis 30:42
    But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
  2. Job 23:9
    On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
  3. Psalms 61:2
    From 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.
  4. Psalms 65:13
    The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
  5. Psalms 73:6
    Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
  6. Psalms 77:3
    I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
  7. Psalms 107:5
    Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
  8. Psalms 142:3
    When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
  9. Psalms 143:4
    Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
  10. Isaiah 57:16
    For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
  11. Lamentations 2:11
    Mine 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.
  12. Lamentations 2:12
    They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
  13. Lamentations 2:19
    Arise, 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.
  14. Jonah 2:7
    When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.