ʻûwb — H5743

Definition

verb

to be dense or dark, i.e. to becloud

1. (Hiphil) to becloud

Usually translated as

cover with a cloud

Origin

a primitive root

Occurrences

ʻûwb occurs 1 time in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Lamentations (1)

• Lamentations 2:1 — How hath the Lord covered (יָעִ֨יב) the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!