Limitless Word
חָפָהchâphâh/khaw-faw'/
HebrewH264512 occurrences (KJV)

to cover; by implication, to veil, to encase, protect

KJV renders it: ceil, cover, overlay.

Where it appears(showing the first 10 of 12)

  • 2 Sam 15:30David went up by the ascent of the Mount of Olives, and wept as he went up; and he had his head covered, and went barefoot: and all the people who were with him each covered his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
  • 2 Chr 3:5He made the larger room with a ceiling of cypress wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and ornamented it with palm trees and chains.
  • 2 Chr 3:7He also overlaid the house, the beams, the thresholds, its walls, and its doors with gold; and engraved cherubim on the walls.
  • 2 Chr 3:8He made the most holy place. Its length, according to the width of the house, was twenty cubits, and its width twenty cubits; and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
  • 2 Chr 3:9The weight of the nails was fifty shekels of gold. He overlaid the upper rooms with gold.
  • Esth 6:12Mordecai came back to the king’s gate, but Haman hurried to his house, mourning and having his head covered.
  • Esth 7:8Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman had fallen on the couch where Esther was. Then the king said, “Will he even assault the queen in front of me in the house?” As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
  • Ps 68:13while you sleep among the camp fires, the wings of a dove sheathed with silver, her feathers with shining gold.
  • Jer 14:3Their nobles send their little ones to the waters. They come to the cisterns, and find no water. They return with their vessels empty. They are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.
  • Jer 14:4Because of the ground which is cracked, because no rain has been in the land. The plowmen are disappointed. They cover their heads.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.