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Strong H5848H5848Cעָטַף

be feeble

One of the 3 senses of Strong H5848

Transliteration
‛âţaph
Pronunciation
aw-taf'
Morphology
Hebrew Verb

Definition

STEP sense: to enfeeble

Exact lexical definition: be feeble

Part of speech: verb

BDB context: [ עָטַף ] vb . be feeble , faint Qal lit. be feeble Niph . when infants faint Hiph . when the flock shewed feebleness Hithp . faint , faint away

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

Strong H5848C appears in 11 verses of the KJV.

Translated in the KJV by

  • overwhelm4
  • faint3
  • swoon2
  • be1
  • fail1
  • feebler1

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. 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.
  3. Psalms 77:3
    I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
  4. Psalms 107:5
    Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
  5. 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.
  6. Psalms 143:4
    Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
  7. 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.
  8. 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.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. Jonah 2:7
    When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
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