Ataph עָטַף
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| עָטַף | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | ataph |
| Strong's number | H5848 (H5848C, H5848B, H5848A) |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | verb |
| Gloss | to enfeeble |
| Occurrences | 15 in 14 verses |
| Most frequent in | Psalms (7) |
Ataph (Hebrew עָטַף, Strong's H5848) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to enfeeble”. It occurs 15 times in 14 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
H5848C: to enfeeble
1) to be feeble, be faint, grow weak
1a) (Qal) to be feeble, be faint
1b) (Niphal) to faint
1c) (Hiphil) to show feebleness
1d) (Hithpael) to faint, faint away
1a) (Qal) to be feeble, be faint
1b) (Niphal) to faint
1c) (Hiphil) to show feebleness
1d) (Hithpael) to faint, faint away
H5848B: to envelope
1) to envelop oneself
1a) (Qal) to envelop oneself, cover
1a) (Qal) to envelop oneself, cover
H5848A: to turn aside
1) to turn aside
1a) (Qal) to turn aside, turn (in order to cover)
1a) (Qal) to turn aside, turn (in order to cover)
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | overwhelmed (4), fainted (2), feeble (1), feebler (1), hideth (1), over (1), covereth (1), fail (1), swoon (1), swooned (1), faint (1) |
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| BSB | grows faint (2), were weak (1), weaker animals (1), he turns (1), is faint (1), are decked (1), covers (1), grew faint (1), fainted (1), would grow weak (1), faint (1), they faint (1), and 2 other renderings |
Verses
Every verse with Ataph, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Genesis
- Genesis 30:42But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.But if the animals were weak, he did not set out the branches. So the weaker animals went to Laban and the stronger ones to Jacob.
Job
- Job 23:9On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:When He is at work in the north, I cannot behold Him; when He turns to the south, I cannot see Him.
Psalms
- Psalm 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.From the ends of the earth I call out to You whenever my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
- Psalm 65:13The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.The pastures are clothed with flocks, and the valleys are decked with grain. They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.
- Psalm 73:6Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.
- Psalm 77:3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.I remembered You, O God, and I groaned; I mused and my spirit grew faint. Selah
- Psalm 107:5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.They were hungry and thirsty; their soul fainted within them.
- Psalm 142:3When 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.Although my spirit grows faint within me, You know my way. Along the path I travel they have hidden a snare for me.
- Psalm 143:4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.My spirit grows faint within me; my heart is dismayed inside me.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 57:16For 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.For I will not accuse you forever, nor will I always be angry; for then the spirit of man would grow weak before Me, with the breath of those I have made.
Lamentations
- 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.My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
- Lamentations 2:12They 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.They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
- 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.Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.
Jonah
- Jonah 2:7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).