עָלַף
alaf · cover oneself; faint
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5968 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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alaf (עָלַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cover oneself; faint”.
Wrap oneself, cover oneself. Elsewhere, faint.
How to say it
a·laf
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Spread over; cloak oneself.
- To be left without strength through hunger, thirst or punishment.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- covered ×1
- have fainted ×1
- he grew faint ×1
- will faint ×1
- wrapped herself ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 38:14
She removed her widow’s garments from her, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself, and sat at the entrance of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.
- Song of Songs 5:14
His hands are cylinders of gold set with chrysolite; his belly a plate of ivory covered with sapphires.
- Isaiah 51:20
Your children have fainted; they lie at the corner of every street, like an antelope in a net, full of the fury of YHWH, of the rebuke of your Elohim.
- Amos 8:13
On that day the beautiful virgins and the young men will faint from thirst.
- Jonah 4:8
And it happened, when the sun rose, that Elohim appointed a scorching east wind, and the sun struck on the head of Jonah, and he grew faint; and he asked that his soul die, and said, “Better is my death than my life.”