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title: עָטוּף — be feeble · The Tanakh dictionary
description: עָטוּף (lemma:עָטוּף), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 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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# עָטוּף

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«עָטוּף» 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:** 2 times · **Key:** lemma:עָטוּף · **BDB:** עָטַף³

### Glosses

enfeebled (1); ones (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

be feeble [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5d8_5d5_5bc_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_5d5_5bc_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: same consonants, part of speech differs, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech differs, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «עָטוּף» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/lemma_3a_5e2_5b8_5d8_5d5_5bc_5e3/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 30:42](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.30.42/)

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וּבְהַעֲטִ֥יף הַצֹּ֖אן לֹ֣א יָשִׂ֑ים וְהָיָ֤ה הָעֲטֻפִים֙ לְלָבָ֔ן וְהַקְּשֻׁרִ֖ים לְיַעֲקֹֽב׃

*Word for word:* and when was.feeble the sheep not he.put.\[them\].out and it.was the.enfeebled ones \[belonged\].to Laban and the.vigorous \[ones\] \[belonged\].to Jacob

*JPS 1917:* but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in; so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.

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[Lamentations 2:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/LAM.2.19/)

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ק֣וּמִי ׀ רֹ֣נִּי בַלַּ֗יְלָה לְרֹאשׁ֙ אַשְׁמֻר֔וֹת שִׁפְכִ֤י כַמַּ֙יִם֙ לִבֵּ֔ךְ נֹ֖כַח פְּנֵ֣י אֲדֹנָ֑י שְׂאִ֧י אֵלָ֣יו כַּפַּ֗יִךְ עַל־נֶ֙פֶשׁ֙ עֽוֹלָלַ֔יִךְ הָעֲטוּפִ֥ים בְּרָעָ֖ב בְּרֹ֥אשׁ כָּל־חוּצֽוֹת׃ס

*Word for word:* arise cry.out in the night to.\[the\] beginning of.\[the\].night-watches pour.out like (the) water heart your in.front.of the.presence Lord of.\[the\] lift.up to him palms your on the.life children your the.ones enfeebled by hunger at.\[the\] head of.all \[the\].streets

*JPS 1917:* Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord; lift up thy hands toward Him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.'

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