Strong's #2645: chaphah (pronounced khaw-faw')

a primitive root (compare 2644, 2653); to cover; by implication, to veil, to encase, protect:--ceil, cover, overlay.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

châphâh

1) to cover, overlay, wainscotted, covered with boards or panelling

1a) (Qal) to cover

1b) (Niphal) to be covered

1c) (Piel) to cover, overlay

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root (compare H2644, H2653)

Usage:

This word is used 12 times:

 

2 Samuel 15:30: "and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all"
2 Samuel 15:30: "the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping"
2 Chronicles 3:5: "And the greater house he ceiled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine"
2 Chronicles 3:5: "he ceiled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine and set thereon"
2 Chronicles 3:7: " He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors"
2 Chronicles 3:8: "twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold,"
2 Chronicles 3:9: "was fifty shekels of gold. And he overlaid the upper chambers"
Esther 6:12: "his house mourning, and having his head covered."
Esther 7:8: "also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king's mouth,"
Psalms 68:13: "the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings of a dove covered and her feathers with yellow gold."
Jeremiah 14:3: "empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads."
Jeremiah 14:4: "the plowmen were ashamed, they covered their heads."