ʻâṭaph — H5848

Definition

verb

to shroud, i.e. clothe (whether transitive or reflex.); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish

1. to turn aside
1. (Qal) to turn aside, turn (in order to cover)
2. to envelop oneself
1. (Qal) to envelop oneself, cover
3. to be feeble, be faint, grow weak
1. (Qal) to be feeble, be faint
2. (Niphal) to faint
3. (Hiphil) to show feebleness
4. (Hithpael) to faint, faint away

Usually translated as

be overwhelmed, fail, faint, feebler, swoon, cover, hide self

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• ásēmos (G767)
• ekleípō (G1587)
• eklýō (G1590)
• exérchomai (G1831)
• peribállō (G4016)
• plēthýnō (G4129)

Occurrences

ʻâṭaph occurs 15 times in 14 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Job (1), Psalms (7), Isaiah (1), Lamentations (3), Jonah (1)

• Genesis 30:42 — But when the cattle were feeble (וּבְהַעֲטִ֥יף), he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
• Genesis 30:42 — But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler (הָעֲטֻפִים֙) were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
• Job 23:9 — On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth (יַעְטֹ֥ף) himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
• Psalms 61:2 — From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed (בַּעֲטֹ֣ף): 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 (יַֽעַטְפוּ) with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
• Psalms 73:6 — Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth (יַעֲטָף) them as a garment.
• Psalms 77:3 — I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed (וְתִתְעַטֵּ֖ף). Selah.
• Psalms 107:5 — Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted (תִּתְעַטָּֽף) in them.
• Psalms 142:3 — When my spirit was overwhelmed (בְּהִתְעַטֵּ֬ף) 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 (וַתִּתְעַטֵּ֣ף) 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 (יַֽעֲט֔וֹף) 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 and the sucklings swoon (בֵּֽעָטֵ֤ף) in the streets of the city.
• Lamentations 2:12 — They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned (בְּהִֽתְעַטְּפָ֤ם) as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
• 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 life of thy young children, that faint (הָעֲטוּפִ֥ים) for hunger in the top of every street.
• Jonah 2:7 — When my soul fainted (בְּהִתְעַטֵּ֤ף) within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.