Lexical Summary chaphaph: to enclose, surround, cover Original Word: חָפַףTransliteration: chaphaph Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-faf') Part of Speech: Verb Short Definition: to enclose, surround, cover Meaning: to enclose, surround, cover Strong's Concordance cover A primitive root (compare chaphah, yacheph); to cover (in protection) -- cover. see HEBREW chaphah see HEBREW yacheph Brown-Driver-Briggs H2653. chaphaph I. [חָפַף] verb enclose, surround, cover (Arabic , surround, side, or border of a thing) — only Qal Participle עָלָיו חֹפֵף 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). |