Hebrew Word Study · Strong’s H2645
חָפָה
cha.phah · “to cover”
Used 12 times across 5 books
Definition
1) to cover, overlay, wainscotted, covered with boards or panelling
1a) (Qal) to cover
1b)(Niphal) to be covered
1c) (Piel) to cover, overlay
1a) (Qal) to cover
1b)(Niphal) to be covered
1c) (Piel) to cover, overlay
Where it appears
2 Samuel2
2 Chronicles5
Esther2
Psalms1
Jeremiah2
In the text
2 Samuel 15:30And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.2 Chronicles 3:5And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.2 Chronicles 3:7He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.2 Chronicles 3:8And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.2 Chronicles 3:9And the weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers with gold.Esther 6:12And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.Esther 7:8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.Psalms 68:14When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.Jeremiah 14:3And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.Jeremiah 14:4Because the ground is chapt, for there was no rain in the earth, the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads.
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