Aphaph אָפַף

Aphaph (Hebrew אָפַף, Strong's H661) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to surround”. It occurs 5 times in 5 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

Verses

Every verse with Aphaph, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

2 Samuel

• 2 Samuel 22:5
  When the waves of death compassed me, the floods of ungodly men made me afraid;For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.

Psalms

• Psalm 18:4
  The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid.The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
• Psalm 40:12
  For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.For evils without number surround me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I cannot see. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed within me.
• Psalm 116:3
  The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.

Jonah

• Jonah 2:5
  The waters compassed me about, even to the soul: the depth closed me round about, the weeds were wrapped about my head.The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.

Notes

1. 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.
2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).