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title: עָלַף — cover · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָלַף (5968), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 5 times: cover. BDB 1906: vb. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָלַף

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«עָלַף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cover** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 5 times · **Key:** 5968 · **BDB:** עָלַף

### Glosses

covered (1); he.became.faint (1); she.wrapped.herself.up (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cover [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5968/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5968/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cover (NH id., cover, faint; Arabic غَلَفَ smear, ii. cover, غِلَافٌ sheath; Assyrian elpitu, pining, exhaustion);— Pt. f. covered, encrusted, cstr. מְעֻלֶּפֶת Ct 5:14 his belly of ivory encrusted with sapphires. Pf. 3 pl. בָּנַיִךְ עֻלְּפוּ Is 51:20 thy sons are enshrouded, enwrapped, i.e. their senses obscured = have swooned away; so also Ez 31:15, reading 3 fs. עֻלָּ֑פָה for subst. עֻלְפֶּה (Köii. 1, 113), all the trees have fainted for (עַל) him (so 𝔊 𝔖 𝔙 Hi Co al.). enwrap oneself, Impf. 3 fs. וַתִּתְעַלָּ֑ף Gn 38:14 (J); = swoon away, 3 ms. וַיִּתְעַלָּ֑ף Jon 4:8; 3 fpl. תִּתְעַלַּפְנָה Am 8:13.

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

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָלַף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5968/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Song of Songs 5:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.5.14/)

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יָדָיו֙ גְּלִילֵ֣י זָהָ֔ב מְמֻלָּאִ֖ים בַּתַּרְשִׁ֑ישׁ מֵעָיו֙ עֶ֣שֶׁת שֵׁ֔ן מְעֻלֶּ֖פֶת סַפִּירִֽים׃

*Word for word:* hands his \[are\].rods of.gold filled with (the) chrysolite parts his.lower \[are\].a.plate of.ivory covered sapphires

*JPS 1917:* His hands are as rods of gold set with beryl; his body is as polished ivory overlaid with sapphires.

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[Amos 8:13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.8.13/)

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בַּיּ֨וֹם הַה֜וּא תִּ֠תְעַלַּפְנָה הַבְּתוּלֹ֧ת הַיָּפ֛וֹת וְהַבַּחוּרִ֖ים בַּצָּמָֽא׃

*Word for word:* in the day (the) that they.will.become.faint the virgins (the) beautiful and the.young men by (the) thirst

*JPS 1917:* In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.

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