Atah means “wrap” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H5844 עָטָה (`atah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. `atah (aw-taw') v. 1. to wrap, i.e. cover, veil, cloth, or roll [a primitive root] It has 15 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include cover, covered, covering, filleth, and coverest. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
`atah (aw-taw') v. 1. to wrap, i.e. cover, veil, cloth, or roll [a primitive root] KJV: array self, be clad, (put a) cover (-ing, self), fill, put on, X surely, turn aside.
How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5844. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.
to enwrap
Usage: 1) to cover, enwrap, wrap oneself, envelop oneself 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to wrap, envelop oneself 1a2) to cover (the beard in mourning) 1a3) mourner, one who covers (participle) 1b) (Hiphil) to cover, enwrap, envelop
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render `atah, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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15 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
First 15 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5844.
And the leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry, Unclean, unclean.
And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a mantle. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he stooped with his face to the ground, and bowed himself.
Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul; let them be covered with reproach and dishonour that seek my hurt.
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
The days of his youth hast thou shortened: thou hast covered him with shame. Selah.
Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:
Let it be unto him as the garment which covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
Let mine adversaries be clothed with shame, and let them cover themselves with their own confusion, as with a mantle.
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?
Behold, the LORD will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.
For he put on righteousness as a breastplate, and an helmet of salvation upon his head; and he put on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a cloak.
And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captives: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.
Forbear to cry, make no mourning for the dead, bind the tire of thine head upon thee, and put on thy shoes upon thy feet, and cover not thy lips, and eat not the bread of men.
And ye shall do as I have done: ye shall not cover your lips, nor eat the bread of men.
Then shall the seers be ashamed, and the diviners confounded: yea, they shall all cover their lips; for there is no answer of God.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5844, grouped by book.
Atah (Strong's H5844) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "wrap". `atah (aw-taw') v. 1. to wrap, i.e. cover, veil, cloth, or roll [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 15 linked usages for Strong's H5844 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5844 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as cover, covered, covering, filleth, coverest, and covereth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.