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# אֲפֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H666

**covering** — used 2 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

covering [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/666/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אֲפֵר: covering, bandage [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/666/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] covering, bandage (Assyrian ipru, covering ZimBP 95, êpartu, garment, Id.ib. & DlPr 54) א׳ עַל־עֵינָיו 1 K 20:38 cf. v 41.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: bandage (2).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 20:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.38/#tree)

וַיֵּ֙לֶךְ֙ הַנָּבִ֔יא וַיַּעֲמֹ֥ד לַמֶּ֖לֶךְ עַל־הַדָּ֑רֶךְ וַיִּתְחַפֵּ֥שׂ בָּאֲפֵ֖ר עַל־עֵינָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.went the prophet and he.stood for the king on the way and he.disguised.himself with (the) bandage over eyes his

*JPS 1917:* So the prophet departed, and waited for the king by the way, and disguised himself with his headband over his eyes.

[1 Kings 20:41](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.41/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.41/#tree)

וַיְמַהֵ֕ר וַיָּ֙סַר֙ אֶת־הָ֣אֲפֵ֔ר מֵעֲלֵ֖י עֵינָ֑יו וַיַּכֵּ֤ר אֹתוֹ֙ מֶ֣לֶךְ יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל כִּ֥י מֵֽהַנְּבִאִ֖ים הֽוּא׃

*Word for word:* and he.hastened and he.removed (et) the bandage from over eyes his and he.recognized him the.king of.Israel (dm).that \[was\].one of the.prophets he

*JPS 1917:* And he hastened, and took the headband away from his eyes; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/666.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/666/): 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).