{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H2645",
  "lemma": "חָפָה",
  "transliteration": "châphâh",
  "definition": "to cover; by implication, to veil, to encase, protect",
  "kjv": "ceil, cover, overlay.",
  "occurrences": 12,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[חָפָה] vb. cover",
    "Qal cover the head",
    "Niph. on material",
    "Pi. (late) overlay"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 15:30",
      "text": "David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered and went…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/15?v=30"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 14:3",
      "text": "Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/14?v=3"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Jeremiah 14:4",
      "text": "Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed. They cover…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/14?v=4"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Psalms 68:14",
      "text": "while you sleep among the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/68?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Esther 6:12",
      "text": "Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/esther/6?v=12"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Esther 7:8",
      "text": "Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/esther/7?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Chronicles 3:5",
      "text": "He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-chronicles/3?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Chronicles 3:7",
      "text": "He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold, and engraved cherubim on the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-chronicles/3?v=7"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Chronicles 3:8",
      "text": "He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-chronicles/3?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Chronicles 3:9",
      "text": "The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-chronicles/3?v=9"
    }
  ],
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