# H2645 חָפָה

חָפָה (châphâh), Strong’s H2645: to cover; by implication, to veil, to encase, protect KJV: ceil, cover, overlay.. Occurs 12 times.

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*châphâh* — to cover; by implication, to veil, to encase, protect

KJV: ceil, cover, overlay.

Occurs 12 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [חָפָה] vb. cover
- Qal cover the head
- Niph. on material
- Pi. (late) overlay

## Where it occurs
- [2 Samuel 15:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/15?v=30) — 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…
- [Jeremiah 14:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/14?v=3) — Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their…
- [Jeremiah 14:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/14?v=4) — Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land, the plowmen are disappointed. They cover…
- [Psalms 68:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/68?v=14) — while you sleep among the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.
- [Esther 6:12](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/esther/6?v=12) — Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
- [Esther 7:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/esther/7?v=8) — Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the…
- [2 Chronicles 3:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-chronicles/3?v=5) — He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm…
- [2 Chronicles 3:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-chronicles/3?v=7) — He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold, and engraved cherubim on the…
- [2 Chronicles 3:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-chronicles/3?v=8) — He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty…
- [2 Chronicles 3:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-chronicles/3?v=9) — The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.