King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H2653
Transliteration: chaphaph
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-faf')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to enclose, surround, cover
Meaning: to enclose, surround, cover
Word Summary
chaphaph: to enclose, surround, cover
Original Word: חָפַףTransliteration: chaphaph
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-faf')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to enclose, surround, cover
Meaning: to enclose, surround, cover
Strong's Concordance
cover A primitive root (compare chaphah, yacheph); to cover (in protection) -- cover.
see HEBREW chaphah
see HEBREW yacheph
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H2653. chaphaph
I. [חָפַף] verb enclose, surround, cover (Arabic , surround, side, or border of a thing) — only
Qal Participle עָלָיו חֹפֵף Deuteronomy 33:12 (poem) he (׳י) is covering him over, figurative of ׳י's sheltering Benjamin (in temple; on omission of subject see Ges§ 116. 5. R. 3).