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# חׇפַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2653

**enclose** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

enclose [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2653/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

חָפַף: vb. enclose, surround, cover [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2653/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. enclose, surround, cover (Arabic حَفَّ, surround, حِفَافٌ side, or border of a thing)—only Pt. חֹפֵף עָלָיו Dt 33:12 (poem) he (י׳) is covering him over, fig. of י׳’s sheltering Benj. (in temple; on omission of subj. v. Ges§ 116. 5. R 3).

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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: \[he is\] covering (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 33:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.33.12/#tree)

לְבִנְיָמִ֣ן אָמַ֔ר יְדִ֣יד יְהֹוָ֔ה יִשְׁכֹּ֥ן לָבֶ֖טַח עָלָ֑יו חֹפֵ֤ף עָלָיו֙ כָּל־הַיּ֔וֹם וּבֵ֥ין כְּתֵיפָ֖יו שָׁכֵֽן׃ס

*Word for word:* of Benjamin he.said the.beloved.\[one\] of.Yahweh he.dwells to security on him \[he.is\].covering over him all the day and between shoulders his he.dwells

*JPS 1917:* Of Benjamin he said: The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by Him; He covereth him all the day, and He dwelleth between his shoulders.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2653.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1495/2653/): 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).