Strong’s H5848 · Hebrew
עָטַף
ʻâṭaph · aw-taf'
Origin a primitive root;
Meaning to shroud, i.e. clothe (whether transitive or reflex.); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish
In the King James Version cover (over), fail, faint, feebler, hide self, be overwhelmed, swoon.
In 15 verses of the King James Version
- Genesis 30:42But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
- Job 23:9On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
- Psalms 61:2From 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 65:13The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
- Psalms 73:6Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
- Psalms 77:3I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
- Psalms 102:1A 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 107:5Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
- Psalms 142:3When 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 143:4Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
- Isaiah 57:16For 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 2:11Mine 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 in the streets of the city.
- Lamentations 2:12They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
- Lamentations 2:19Arise, 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 for hunger in the top of every street.
- Jonah 2:7When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.