Hebrew verb · H5968
עָלַף
alaphaw-laf'
to enwrap
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʻâlaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5968is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5968
to veil or cover; figuratively, to be languid
The King James renders it: faint, overlaid, wrap self.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
alaph is rendered "to enwrap". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- One of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 38:14she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
Genesis 38:14וַתִּתְעַלָּ֔ף
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in five of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and he became faint1
- and she wrapped herself up1
- covered1
- they have become faint1
- they will become faint1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וַיִּתְעַלָּ֑ף1
- וַתִּתְעַלָּ֔ף1
- מְעֻלֶּ֖פֶת1
- עֻלְּפ֥וּ1
- תִּ֠תְעַלַּפְנָה1
The grammar of each form
- Hc/Vtw3fs1Hc/Vtw3fs
- Hc/Vtw3ms1Hc/Vtw3ms
- verb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVPp3cp
- verb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singular1HVPsfsa
- verb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine plural1HVti3fp
Genesis
one use
she removed her widow’s garments, covered her face with a veil to disguise herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that although Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.
- וַתִּתְעַלָּ֔ףvatitalafHc/Vtw3fstagged: and she wrapped herself up
Song of Solomon
one use
His arms are rods of gold set with beryl. His body is an ivory panel bedecked with sapphires.
- מְעֻלֶּ֖פֶתmeulefetverb · intensive passive (pual), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: covered
Isaiah
one use
Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.
- עֻלְּפ֥וּʾulefuverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have become faint
Amos
one use
In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.
- תִּ֠תְעַלַּפְנָהtitalafnahverb · reflexive (hithpael), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will become faint
Jonah
one use
As the sun was rising, God appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun beat down on Jonah’s head so that he grew faint and wished to die, saying, “It is better for me to die than to live.”
- וַיִּתְעַלָּ֑ףvaiyitalafHc/Vtw3mstagged: and he became faint
The letters
Gematria 180· 900 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.