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title: עֻלְפֶּה — cover · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עֻלְפֶּה (5969), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: cover. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עֻלְפֶּה

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«עֻלְפֶּה» 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 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 5969 · **BDB:** עֻלְפֶּה

### Glosses

\[were\].wilted (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cover [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5969/#m1)

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**The whole BDB entry:** Ez 31:15 v. foregoing.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עֻלְפֶּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/5969/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Ezekiel 31:15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.31.15/)

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כֹּֽה־אָמַ֞ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֗ה בְּי֨וֹם רִדְתּ֤וֹ שְׁא֙וֹלָה֙ הֶאֱבַ֜לְתִּי כִּסֵּ֤תִי עָלָיו֙ אֶת־תְּה֔וֹם וָֽאֶמְנַע֙ נַהֲרוֹתֶ֔יהָ וַיִּכָּלְא֖וּ מַ֣יִם רַבִּ֑ים וָאַקְדִּ֤ר עָלָיו֙ לְבָנ֔וֹן וְכָל־עֲצֵ֥י הַשָּׂדֶ֖ה עָלָ֥יו עֻלְפֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh on the.day it went.down Sheol to I.caused.mourning I.covered over it (et) the.deep and I.withheld rivers its and they.were.restrained waters many and I.made.mourn on it Lebanon and all the.trees of the.field on it \[were\].wilted

*JPS 1917:* Thus saith the Lord GOD: In the day when he went down to the nether-world I caused the deep to mourn and cover itself for him, and I restrained the rivers thereof, and the great waters were stayed; and I caused Lebanon to mourn for him, and all the trees of the field fainted for him.

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