Strong's #5848: `ataph (pronounced aw-taf')

a primitive root; to shroud, i.e. clothe (whether transitive or reflex.); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish:-- cover (over), fail, faint, feebler, hide self, be overwhelmed, swoon.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âṭaph

1) to turn aside

1a) (Qal) to turn aside, turn (in order to cover)

2) to envelop oneself

2a) (Qal) to envelop oneself, cover

3) to be feeble, be faint, grow weak

3a) (Qal) to be feeble, be faint

3b) (Niphal) to faint

3c) (Hiphil) to show feebleness

3d) (Hithpael) to faint, faint away

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1605, 1606, 1607

Usage:

This word is used 16 times:

 

Genesis 30:42: "But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger"
Genesis 30:42: "were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's."
Job 23:9: "where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see"
Psalms 61:2: "of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher"
Psalms 65:13: "are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing."
Psalms 73:6: "pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment."
Psalms 77:3: "and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah."
Psalms 102:1: "A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD."
Psalms 107:5: "and thirsty, their soul fainted"
Psalms 142:3: "When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein"
Psalms 143:4: "Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate."
Isaiah 57:16: "will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls"
Lamentations 2:11: "of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city."
Lamentations 2:12: "Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul"
Lamentations 2:19: "him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street."
Jonah 2:7: "When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in"