Strong's #5844: `atah (pronounced aw-taw')
a primitive root; to wrap, i.e. cover, veil, cloth, or roll:--array self, be clad, (put a) cover (-ing, self), fill, put on, X surely, turn aside.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
‛âṭâh
1) to cover, enwrap, wrap oneself, envelop oneself
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to wrap, envelop oneself
1a2) to cover (the beard in mourning)
1a3) mourner, one who covers (participle)
1b) (Hiphil) to cover, enwrap, envelop
2) to grasp
2a) (Qal) to grasp
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1601, 1602
Usage:
This word is used 17 times:
Leviticus 13:45: "rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean,"
1 Samuel 28:14: "man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that"
Psalms 71:13: "and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt."
Psalms 84:6: "it a well; the rain also filleth the pools."
Psalms 89:45: "The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah."
Psalms 104:2: " Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:"
Psalms 109:19: "Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually."
Psalms 109:29: "Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle."
Song of Solomon 1:7: "thou makest thyflock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks"
Isaiah 22:17: "will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover"
Isaiah 22:17: "will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover"
Isaiah 59:17: "the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak."
Jeremiah 43:12: "of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as"
Jeremiah 43:12: "of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence"
Ezekiel 24:17: "thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not"
Ezekiel 24:22: "as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat"
Micah 3:7: "and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no"
