STRONGS NUMBER H5968


Word Summary
alaph: to cover
Original Word: עָלַף
Transliteration: 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 מְעֻלֶּפֶתSong of Solomon 5:14 his belly if ivory encrusted with sapphires. Perfect3plural עֻלְּפוּ בָּנַיִךְIsaiah 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 וַתִּתְעַלָּ֑ףGenesis 38:14 (J); = swoon away, 3 masculine singular וַיִּתְעַלָּ֑ףJonah 4:8; 3feminine plural תִּתְעַלַּפְנָהAmos 8:13.