[Elamur Dictionary](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/%D7%9C%D7%95%D7%98-2/)

[dictionaries](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [Biblical Hebrew](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/) / [ל](https://md.dictionary.elamur.ai/free/en/biblical-hebrew/lamed/)‎ / לוּט‎

# לוּט

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3874

**wrap closely** — used 3 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

wrap closely [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3874/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לוּט: vb. wrap closely, tightly, enwrap, envelop [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3874/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. wrap closely, tightly, enwrap, envelop (Arabic لَاطَ cleave, stick to a thing; also trans. make to stick, or adhere);— Pf. 3 ms. לָאט 2 S 19:5 (so read, for MT לָאַט, We Klo Dr Bu); Pt. act. לוֹט Is 25:7 (cf. Köi. 445); Pt. pass. f. לוּטָה 1 S 21:10;—לוּטָה בַשִּׂמְלָה 1 S 21:10 it is wrapped up in a garment (of sword of Goliath); fig. of covering as sign of mourning, פְּנֵי־הַלּוֹט הַלּוֹט עַל־כָּל־הָעַמִּים Is 25:7 the surface of covering which covereth over all the peoples (‖ מַסֵּכָה הַנְּסוּכָה). Impf. envelope, wrap וַיָּלֶ֫ט פָּנָיו בְּאַדַּרְתּוֹ 1 K 19:13.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[is\] wrapped (1); he wrapped (1); the covering (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 25:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.7/#tree)

וּבִלַּע֙ בָּהָ֣ר הַזֶּ֔ה פְּנֵֽי־הַלּ֥וֹט ׀ הַלּ֖וֹט עַל־כָּל־הָֽעַמִּ֑ים וְהַמַּסֵּכָ֥ה הַנְּסוּכָ֖ה עַל־כָּל־הַגּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.swallow.up on the mountain (the) this the.surface of the.covering \[which\] covers over all the peoples and the.woven stuff \[which is\].woven over all the nations

*JPS 1917:* And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that is cast over all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

[1 Kings 19:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.19.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.19.13/#tree)

וַיְהִ֣י ׀ כִּשְׁמֹ֣עַ אֵלִיָּ֗הוּ וַיָּ֤לֶט פָּנָיו֙ בְּאַדַּרְתּ֔וֹ וַיֵּצֵ֕א וַֽיַּעֲמֹ֖ד פֶּ֣תַח הַמְּעָרָ֑ה וְהִנֵּ֤ה אֵלָיו֙ ק֔וֹל וַיֹּ֕אמֶר מַה־לְּךָ֥ פֹ֖ה אֵלִיָּֽהוּ׃

*Word for word:* and it.was just as.heard Elijah and he.wrapped face his in cloak his and he.went.out and he.stood the.entrance of the.cave and there! \[was\].to him a.voice and it.said what? \[is\].to you here O.Elijah

*JPS 1917:* And it was so, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. And, behold, there came a voice unto him, and said: 'What doest thou here, Elijah?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3874.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3874/): 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).