Lexical Summary alaph: to cover Original Word: עָלַףTransliteration: alaph Phonetic Spelling: (aw-laf') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to cover Meaning: to veil, cover, to be languid Strong's Concordance faint, overlaid, wrap self A primitive root; to veil or cover; figuratively, to be languid -- faint, overlaid, wrap self. Brown-Driver-Briggs H5968. alaph [עָלַף] verb cover (Late Hebrew id., cover, faint; Arabic smear, II. cover, sheath; Assyrian elpitu, pining, exhaustion); — Pu`al Participle feminine covered, encrusted, construct מְעֻלֶּפֶת Song of Solomon 5:14 his belly if ivory encrusted with sapphires. Perfect3plural עֻלְּפוּ בָּנַיִךְ Isaiah 51:20 thy sons are enshrouded, enwrapped, i.e. their senses obscured = have swooned away; so also Ezekiel 31:15, reading 3feminine singular עֻלָּ֑פָה for substantive עֻלְמֶּה (Köii. 1, 118), all the trees have fainted for (עַל) him (so ᵑ9 ᵑ6 ᵐ5 Hi Co and others). Hithpa`el enwrap oneself, Imperfect3feminine singular וַתִּתְעַלָּ֑ף Genesis 38:14 (J); = swoon away, 3 masculine singular וַיִּתְעַלָּ֑ף Jonah 4:8; 3feminine plural תִּתְעַלַּפְנָה Amos 8:13. |
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