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title: עָטַף — be feeble · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָטַף (lemma:עָטַף), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 11 times: be feeble. BDB 1906: vb. be feeble, faint Qal. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# עָטַף

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«עָטַף» in the Tanakh dictionary: **be feeble** — 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:** 11 times · **Key:** lemma:עָטַף · **BDB:** עָטַף³

### Glosses

fainted.away (1); faints.away (1); grow.faint (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be feeble [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5d8_5b7_5e3/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. be feeble, faint Qal [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5d8_5b7_5e3/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be feeble, faint (BAES 27 cp. Arabic عَطِبَ perish, flag);— Impf. 3 ms. יַעֲטֹף ψ 102:1, יַעֲטוֹף Is 57:16; Inf. cstr. עֲטֹף ψ 61:3; Pt. pass. (Ges§ 50 f) pl. עֲטֻפִים Gn 30:42, עֲטוּפִים La 2:19;—lit. be feeble Gn 30:42 (J; opp. קְשׁוּרִים); הָעֲטוּפִים בְּרָעָב La 2:19; fig. רוּחַ מִלְּפָנַי יַע׳ Is 57:16 the spirit would faint before me (י׳); בַּעֲטֹף לִבִּי ψ 61:3; 102:1 (title). Inf. cstr. בֵּעָטֵף עוֹלֵל La 2:11 when infants faint (for בְּהֵע׳; but read perhaps בַּעֲטֹף Qal, so Buhl). Inf. cstr. בְּהַעֲטִיף הַצֹּאן Gn 30:42 when the flock shewed feebleness. Impf. 3 fs. תִּתְעַטֵּף ψ 77:4, וַתִּת׳ 143:4, תִּתְעַטָּ֑ף 107:5; Inf. cstr. הִתְעַטֵּף 142:4; Jon 2:8, sf. הִתְעַטְּפָם La 2:12;—faint, faint away, La 2:12 (כֶּחָלָל like the wounded); subj. רוּחַ ψ 77:4; 142:4 (+ עָלַי, v. עַל II 1 d), 143:4 (+ id.); subj. נֶפֶשׁ Jon 2:8 (+ id.), ψ 107:5 (+ בָּהֶם).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָטַף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5d8_5b7_5e3/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 107:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.107.5/)

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רְעֵבִ֥ים גַּם־צְמֵאִ֑ים נַ֝פְשָׁ֗ם בָּהֶ֥ם תִּתְעַטָּֽף׃

*Word for word:* hungry also thirsty life their in them it.was.fainting.away

*JPS 1917:* Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.

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[Psalms 77:4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.77.4/)

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אֶזְכְּרָ֣ה אֱלֹהִ֣ים וְאֶֽהֱמָיָ֑ה אָשִׂ֓יחָה ׀ וְתִתְעַטֵּ֖ף רוּחִ֣י סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* I.will.remember God and I.will.murmur I.will.complain and it.will.faint.away spirit my Selah

*JPS 1917:* When I think thereon, O God, I must moan; when I muse thereon, my spirit fainteth.

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