חָפָה chaphah

Hebrew word for “to cover” · Strong’s H2645 · used 12 times in 10 verses

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Meaning

1) to cover, overlay, wainscotted, covered with boards or panelling;

How it is translated

Glosses given for chaphah in context, with how often each is used:

• overlaid 5
• covered 4
• have covered 2
• people covered 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

2 Chronicles 3 (4), Jeremiah 14 (2), 2 Samuel 15 (1), Esther 6 (1), Esther 7 (1), Psalms 68 (1)

Forms

• חפו 3
• חפה 2
• ויחפהו 2
• חפוי 1
• ויחף 1
• וחפוי 1
• נחפה 1
• וחפו 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with chaphah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• זָהָב zahav “gold” 4
• רֹאשׁ rosh “head” 4
• הָמָן haman “Haman” 2
• בּוֹשׁ bush “be ashamed” 2
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 3
• טוֹב tov “pleasant” 2
• עָלָה alah “to ascend” 2

Key verses

The verses using chaphah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 2 Samuel 15:30 — And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him…
• 2 Chronicles 3:5 — And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
• 2 Chronicles 3:7 — He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
• 2 Chronicles 3:8 — And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he…
• 2 Chronicles 3:9 — And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.
• Esther 6:12 — And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
• Esther 7:8 — Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the…
• Psalms 68:13 — Though ye have lien among the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow gold.
• Jeremiah 14:3 — And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were…
• Jeremiah 14:4 — Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.