Strong's #5968: `alaph (pronounced aw-laf')

a primitive root; to veil or cover; figuratively, to be languid:--faint, overlaid, wrap self.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

‛âlaph

1) to cover

1a) (Pual) covered, encrusted (participle)

1b) (Hithpael) to enwrap oneself, disguise oneself, faint

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 5 times:

 

Genesis 38:14: "off from her, and covered her with a veil, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place,"
Song of Solomon 5:14: "his belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires."
Isaiah 51:20: "Thy sons have fainted, they lie at the head of all the streets, as a wild bull in a net:"
Amos 8:13: "shall the fair virgins and young men faint for thirst."
Jonah 4:8: "upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die,"