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# עָלַף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5968

**cover** — 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

cover [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5968/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָלַף: vb. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5968/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cover (NH id., cover, faint; Arabic غَلَفَ smear, ii. cover, غِلَافٌ sheath; Assyrian elpitu, pining, exhaustion);— Pt. f. covered, encrusted, cstr. מְעֻלֶּפֶת Ct 5:14 his belly of ivory encrusted with sapphires. Pf. 3 pl. בָּנַיִךְ עֻלְּפוּ Is 51:20 thy sons are enshrouded, enwrapped, i.e. their senses obscured = have swooned away; so also Ez 31:15, reading 3 fs. עֻלָּ֑פָה for subst. עֻלְפֶּה (Köii. 1, 113), all the trees have fainted for (עַל) him (so 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 Hi Co al.). enwrap oneself, Impf. 3 fs. וַתִּתְעַלָּ֑ף Gn 38:14 (J); = swoon away, 3 ms. וַיִּתְעַלָּ֑ף Jon 4:8; 3 fpl. תִּתְעַלַּפְנָה Am 8:13.

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: covered (1); he became faint (1); she wrapped herself up (1).

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 5:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.14/#tree)

יָדָיו֙ גְּלִילֵ֣י זָהָ֔ב מְמֻלָּאִ֖ים בַּתַּרְשִׁ֑ישׁ מֵעָיו֙ עֶ֣שֶׁת שֵׁ֔ן מְעֻלֶּ֖פֶת סַפִּירִֽים׃

*Word for word:* hands his \[are\].rods of.gold filled with (the) chrysolite parts his.lower \[are\].a.plate of.ivory covered sapphires

*JPS 1917:* His hands are as rods of gold set with beryl; his body is as polished ivory overlaid with sapphires.

[Amos 8:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.8.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.8.13/#tree)

בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא תִּ֠תְעַלַּפְנָה הַבְּתוּלֹ֧ת הַיָּפ֛וֹת וְהַבַּחוּרִ֖ים בַּצָּמָֽא׃

*Word for word:* in the day (the) that they.will.become.faint the virgins (the) beautiful and the.young men by (the) thirst

*JPS 1917:* In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5968.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5968/): 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).