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# אָפַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H661

**surround** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

surround [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/661/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָפַף: vb. surround, encompass [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/661/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. surround, encompass (Assyrian apâpu ZimBP 59)— Pf. אָֽפְפוּ ψ 40:13, אֲפָפוּנִי ψ 18:5 +;—encompass (poet.) lit. Jon 2:6 (subj. מַיִם); fig., subj. evils & misfortunes רָעוֹת ψ 40:13 (sq. עָלַי); מִשְׁבְּרֵי מות 2 S 22:5, cf. הֶבְלֵי מ׳ ψ 18:5, also 116:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they (4); they have encompassed (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 22:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.22.5/#tree)

כִּ֥י אֲפָפֻ֖נִי מִשְׁבְּרֵי־מָ֑וֶת נַחֲלֵ֥י בְלִיַּ֖עַל יְבַעֲתֻֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* (dm) they encompassed.me breakers of.death torrents of.worthlessness they overwhelmed.me

*JPS 1917:* For the waves of Death compassed me. The floods of Belial assailed me.

[Psalms 18:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.18.5/#tree)

אֲפָפ֥וּנִי חֶבְלֵי־מָ֑וֶת וְֽנַחֲלֵ֖י בְלִיַּ֣עַל יְבַֽעֲתֽוּנִי׃

*Word for word:* they encompassed.me cords of.death and torrents of.worthlessness they overwhelmed.me

*JPS 1917:* The cords of Death compassed me, and the floods of Belial assailed me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/661.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/661/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).