עָטַף ataph
Hebrew word for “to enfeeble” · Strong’s H5848 · used 16 times in 15 verses
Meaning
1) to be feeble, be faint, grow weak;
Senses in the lexicon
- to enfeeble (13)
- to envelope (2)
- to turn aside (1)
How it is translated
Glosses given for ataph in context, with how often each is used:
- when was feeble 1
- enfeebled ones 1
- when grows faint 1
- may faint away 1
- grows faint 1
- fainting away 1
- when faints away 1
- has fainted away 1
- will grow faint 1
- because faint 1
- when faint away they 1
- ones enfeebled 1
Where it is used
Chapters where it is used most
Lamentations 2 (3), Genesis 30 (1), Job 23 (1), Psalms 61 (1), Psalms 65 (1), Psalms 73 (1), Psalms 77 (1), Psalms 102 (1), Psalms 107 (1), Psalms 142 (1)
Forms
- יעטף 3
- בעטף 2
- ותתעטף 2
- בהתעטף 2
- ובהעטיף 1
- העטפים 1
- תתעטף 1
- יעטוף 1
- בהתעטפם 1
- העטופים 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with ataph more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- שָׁפַךְ shaphakh “to pour” 4
- רוּחַ ruach “spirit” 4
- עוֹלֵל olel “infant” 2
- נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 4
- רְחוֹב rechov “street/plaza” 2
- תְּפִלָּה tephillah “prayer” 2
- לֵב lev “heart” 3
- זָכַר zakhar “to remember” 2
- צֹאן tson “flock” 2
- הֶם hem “them” 2
Key verses
The verses using ataph that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Psalms 61:2 — From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
- Psalms 65:13 — The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
- Psalms 73:6 — Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
- Psalms 77:3 — I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
- Psalms 102:1 — [A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.] Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
- Psalms 107:5 — Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
- Psalms 142:3 — When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
- Psalms 143:4 — Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
- Isaiah 57:16 — For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
- Lamentations 2:11 — Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children…
- Lamentations 2:19 — Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the…
- Jonah 2:7 — When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
See all 15 verses in the Word Atlas
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.