2653. chaphaph
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chaphaph: To cover, to surround, to shield

Original Word: חָפַף
Part of Speech: Verb
Transliteration: chophaph
Pronunciation: khaw-faf'
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-faf')
KJV: cover
NASB: shields
Word Origin: [a primitive root]

1. to cover (in protection)

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
cover

A primitive root (compare chaphah, yacheph); to cover (in protection) -- cover.

see HEBREW chaphah

see HEBREW yacheph

NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
a prim. root
Definition
to enclose, surround, cover
NASB Translation
shields (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
I. [חָפַף] verb enclose, surround, cover (Arabic , surround, side, or border of a thing) — only

Qal Participle חֹפֵף עָלָיו Deuteronomy 33:12 (poem) he (׳י) is covering him over, figurative of ׳י's sheltering Benjamin (in temple; on omission of subject see Ges§ 116. 5. R. 3).

Forms and Transliterations
חֹפֵ֤ף חפף choFef ḥō·p̄êp̄ ḥōp̄êp̄
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Englishman's Concordance
Deuteronomy 33:12
HEB: לָבֶ֖טַח עָלָ֑יו חֹפֵ֤ף עָלָיו֙ כָּל־
NAS: in security by Him, Who shields him all
KJV: in safety by him; [and the LORD] shall cover him all the day
INT: security and shields and all

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 2653
1 Occurrence


ḥō·p̄êp̄ — 1 Occ.

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