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# עָטַף

Biblical Hebrew

**be feeble** — used 11 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

be feeble [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5d8_5b7_5e3/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָטַף³: vb. be feeble, faint Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5d8_5b7_5e3/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be feeble, faint (BAES 27 cp. Arabic عَطِبَ perish, flag);— Impf. 3 ms. יַעֲטֹף ψ 102:1, יַעֲטוֹף Is 57:16; Inf. cstr. עֲטֹף ψ 61:3; Pt. pass. (Ges§ 50 f) pl. עֲטֻפִים Gn 30:42, עֲטוּפִים La 2:19;—lit. be feeble Gn 30:42 (J; opp. קְשׁוּרִים); הָעֲטוּפִים בְּרָעָב La 2:19; fig. רוּחַ מִלְּפָנַי יַע׳ Is 57:16 the spirit would faint before me (י׳); בַּעֲטֹף לִבִּי ψ 61:3; 102:1 (title). Inf. cstr. בֵּעָטֵף עוֹלֵל La 2:11 when infants faint (for בְּהֵע׳; but read perhaps בַּעֲטֹף Qal, so Buhl). Inf. cstr. בְּהַעֲטִיף הַצֹּאן Gn 30:42 when the flock shewed feebleness. Impf. 3 fs. תִּתְעַטֵּף ψ 77:4, וַתִּת׳ 143:4, תִּתְעַטָּ֑ף 107:5; Inf. cstr. הִתְעַטֵּף 142:4; Jon 2:8, sf. הִתְעַטְּפָם La 2:12;—faint, faint away, La 2:12 (כֶּחָלָל like the wounded); subj. רוּחַ ψ 77:4; 142:4 (+ עָלַי, v. עַל II 1 d), 143:4 (+ id.); subj. נֶפֶשׁ Jon 2:8 (+ id.), ψ 107:5 (+ בָּהֶם).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: fainted away (1); faints away (1); grow faint (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 107:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.5/#tree)

רְעֵבִ֥ים גַּם־צְמֵאִ֑ים נַ֝פְשָׁ֗ם בָּהֶ֥ם תִּתְעַטָּֽף׃

*Word for word:* hungry also thirsty life their in them it.was.fainting.away

*JPS 1917:* Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

[Psalms 77:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.4/#tree)

אֶזְכְּרָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֣ים וְאֶֽהֱמָיָ֑ה אָשִׂ֓יחָה ׀ וְתִתְעַטֵּ֖ף רוּחִ֣י סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* I.will.remember God and I.will.murmur I.will.complain and it.will.faint.away spirit my Selah

*JPS 1917:* When I think thereon, O God, I must moan; when I muse thereon, my spirit fainteth.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5d8_5b7_5e3.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5d8_5b7_5e3/): 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).