chafa · cover

What it means

chafa (חָפָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cover”.

Covering the head was a sign of mourning or of shame.

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 veil one's head in grief or shame.
2. To overlay with wood, gold or silver.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• covered ×10
• they cover ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• 2 Samuel×2
• 2 Chronicles×5
• Esther×2
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×2

• 2 Samuel 15:30

  David was going up the ascent of the Olives, weeping as he went up, with his head covered, and he was walking barefoot; and all the people who were with him covered, each his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

• 2 Chronicles 3:5

  The great house he covered with cypress wood, and covered it with good gold, and put on it palm trees and chains.

• 2 Chronicles 3:7

  He covered the house —the beams, the thresholds, its walls and its doors— with gold, and he engraved cherubim on the walls.

• 2 Chronicles 3:8

  He made the house of the Most Holy Place: its length, across the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he covered it with good gold, amounting to six hundred talents.

• 2 Chronicles 3:9

  The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And the upper rooms he covered with gold.

• Esther 6:12

  And Mordecai returned to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and with his head covered.

• Esther 7:8

  And the king returned from the garden of the palace to the house of the banquet of wine, and Haman had fallen on the couch on which Esther was. And the king said, “Will he even subdue the queen with me present in the house?” The word went out of the mouth of the king, and they covered Haman’s face.

• Psalms 68:13

  Though you lie down among the sheepfolds, the wings of the dove are covered with silver, and its feathers with greenish gold.”

• Jeremiah 14:3

  And their nobles send their little ones for water; they come to the pools, they do not find water; they return, their vessels empty; they are ashamed and humiliated, and they cover their heads.

• Jeremiah 14:4

  Because the ground is cracked, for there has been no rain in the land, the farmers are ashamed; they cover their heads.

And 2 more times.