# עָטַף (ataf)

Israeli respelling: a-taf. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H5848. 15 Old Testament occurrences.

to shroud, i.e. clothe (whether transitive or reflex.); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish

King James renderings: cover (over), fail, faint, feebler, hide self, be overwhelmed, swoon.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/ataf-h5848

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 30:42](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/30/42) — But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.
- [Job 23:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/job/23/9) — On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:
- [Psalms 61:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/61/2) — From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
- [Psalms 65:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/65/13) — The pastures are clothed with flocks; the valleys also are covered over with corn; they shout for joy, they also sing.
- [Psalms 73:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/73/6) — Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them as a garment.
- [Psalms 77:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/77/3) — I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
- [Psalms 102:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/102/1) — Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
- [Psalms 107:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/107/5) — Hungry and thirsty, their soul fainted in them.
- [Psalms 142:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/142/3) — When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
- [Psalms 143:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/143/4) — Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
- [Isaiah 57:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/57/16) — For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth: for the spirit should fail before me, and the souls which I have made.
- [Lamentations 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/11) — Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people;…
- [Lamentations 2:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/12) — They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured…
- [Lamentations 2:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/lamentations/2/19) — Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift up thy hands…
- [Jonah 2:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jonah/2/7) — When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.