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title: לוּט — wrap closely · The Tanakh dictionary
description: לוּט (3875), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: wrap closely. BDB 1906: vb. wrap closely, tightly, enwrap, envelop. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# לוּט

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«לוּט» in the Tanakh dictionary: **wrap closely** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 3875 · **BDB:** לוּט

### Glosses

covers (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

wrap closely [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3875/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. wrap closely, tightly, enwrap, envelop [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3875/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. wrap closely, tightly, enwrap, envelop (Arabic لَاطَ cleave, stick to a thing; also trans. make to stick, or adhere);— Pf. 3 ms. לָאט 2 S 19:5 (so read, for MT לָאַט, We Klo Dr Bu); Pt. act. לוֹט Is 25:7 (cf. Köi. 445); Pt. pass. f. לוּטָה 1 S 21:10;—לוּטָה בַשִּׂמְלָה 1 S 21:10 it is wrapped up in a garment (of sword of Goliath); fig. of covering as sign of mourning, פְּנֵי־הַלּוֹט הַלּוֹט עַל־כָּל־הָעַמִּים Is 25:7 the surface of covering which covereth over all the peoples (‖ מַסֵּכָה הַנְּסוּכָה). Impf. envelope, wrap וַיָּלֶ֫ט פָּנָיו בְּאַדַּרְתּוֹ 1 K 19:13.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «לוּט» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3875/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 25:7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.25.7/)

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וּבִלַּע֙ בָּהָ֣ר הַזֶּ֔ה פְּנֵֽי־הַלּ֥וֹט ׀ הַלּ֖וֹט עַל־כָּל־הָֽעַמִּ֑ים וְהַמַּסֵּכָ֥ה הַנְּסוּכָ֖ה עַל־כָּל־הַגּוֹיִֽם׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.swallow.up on the mountain (the) this the.surface of the.covering \[which\] covers over all the peoples and the.woven stuff \[which is\].woven over all the nations

*JPS 1917:* And He will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering that is cast over all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

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