Hebrew verb · H661
אָפַף
aphaphaw-faf'
to surround
5 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: ʼâphaph
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H661is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H661
to surround
The King James renders it: compass.
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
aphaph is rendered "to surround". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 22:5For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
2 Samuel 22:5אֲפָפֻ֖נִי
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- they surrounded me2
- they encompassed me1
- they have encompassed me1
- they have surrounded1
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
- אָפְפ֥וּ־1
- אֲפָפ֥וּנִי1
- אֲפָפ֤וּנִי1
- אֲפָפ֤וּנִי׀1
- אֲפָפֻ֖נִי1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular4HVqp3cp/Sp1bs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
2 Samuel
one use
For the waves of death engulfed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
- אֲפָפֻ֖נִיʾafafuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they surrounded me
Psalms
three uses
The cords of death encompassed me; the torrents of chaos overwhelmed me.
- אֲפָפ֥וּנִיʾafafuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they encompassed 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.
- אָפְפ֥וּ־ʾafefu-verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have surrounded
The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
- אֲפָפ֤וּנִי׀ʾafafuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they surrounded me
Jonah
one use
The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
- אֲפָפ֤וּנִיʾafafuniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have encompassed me
The letters
Gematria 161· 881 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.