ataf · grow faint

What it means

ataf (עָטַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “grow faint”.

Be weak; also wrap, cover oneself.

How to say it

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

1. To be blanketed, like valleys with grain.
2. To lose all strength.
3. To withdraw from sight and stay hidden, taking another way.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• faint ×5
• grows faint ×5
• feeble ×2
• are covered ×1
• covers them ×1
• he hides himself ×1
• was fainting ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×8
• Isaiah×1
• Lamentations×3
• Jonah×1

• Genesis 30:42

  but when the flock was feeble, he would not put them there; so the feeble were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

• Job 23:9

  north, when he works, and I do not catch sight of him; he hides himself in the south, and I do not see him.

• Psalms 61:2

  From the end of the earth to you I call when my heart grows faint; to the rock that is higher than I guide me.

• Psalms 65:13

  The meadows have put on flocks, and the valleys are covered with grain; they shout aloud, and also they sing.

• Psalms 73:6

  Therefore pride is their necklace; a garment of violence covers them.

• Psalms 77:3

  I remember Elohim and moan; I complain, and my spirit grows faint. Selah.

• Psalms 102:1

  A prayer of the afflicted one, when he grows faint and before YHWH pours out his complaint. YHWH, hear my prayer, and let my cry for help come to you.

• Psalms 107:5

  Hungry and also thirsty, their soul within them grew faint.

• Psalms 142:3

  When my spirit grows faint within me, you know my pathway; in the path where I walk they have hidden a snare for me.

• Psalms 143:4

  And my spirit grows faint within me; in my midst my heart is desolate.

• Isaiah 57:16

  For not forever will I contend, nor forever will I be angry; for the spirit would grow faint before me, and the breaths that I made.

• Lamentations 2:11

  My eyes are spent with tears; my insides are in turmoil; my liver is poured out on the ground because of the shattering of the daughter of my people, when child and nursing infant faint in the squares of the city.

• Lamentations 2:12

  To their mothers they say, “Where is grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the squares of the city, as their life is poured out into the bosom of their mothers.

• Lamentations 2:19

  Arise, cry aloud in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out like water your heart before the face of Adonai; lift up to him your hands for the life of your little children who faint from hunger at the head of every street.”

• Jonah 2:7

  When my soul was fainting within me, I remembered YHWH, and my prayer came to you, to your holy temple.

And 1 more times.