# H5848 עָטַף

עָטַף (ʻâṭaph), Strong’s H5848: to shroud, i.e. clothe (whether transitive or reflex.); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish KJV: cover (over), fail, faint, feebler, hide self, be…

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*ʻâṭaph* — to shroud, i.e. clothe (whether transitive or reflex.); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish

KJV: cover (over), fail, faint, feebler, hide self, be overwhelmed, swoon.

Occurs 16 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [עָטַף] vb. envelop oneself (Aramaism)
- עָטַף vb
- [עָטַף] vb. be feeble, faint
- Qal lit. be feeble
- Niph. when infants faint
- Hiph. when the flock shewed feebleness
- Hithp. faint, faint away
- עָטַף vb
- [עָטַף] vb. turn aside;—Qal Jb 23:9

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 30:42](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/30?v=42) — but when the flock were feeble, he didn’t put them in. So the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
- [Isaiah 57:16](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/57?v=16) — For I will not contend forever, neither will I always be angry; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls…
- [Jonah 2:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jonah/2?v=8) — “When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the LORD. My prayer came in to you, into your holy temple.
- [Psalms 61:3](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/61?v=3) — From the end of the earth, I will call to you when my heart is overwhelmed. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
- [Psalms 65:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/65?v=14) — The pastures are covered with flocks. The valleys also are clothed with grain. They shout for joy! They also sing.
- [Psalms 73:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/73?v=6) — Therefore pride is like a chain around their neck. Violence covers them like a garment.
- [Psalms 77:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/77?v=4) — I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.
- [Psalms 102:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/102?v=1) — A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed and pours out his complaint before the LORD.
- [Psalms 107:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/107?v=5) — Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
- [Psalms 142:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/142?v=4) — When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, you knew my route. On the path in which I walk, they have hidden a snare for…