Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to overlay
Usage: 1) to lay out, lay over, overlay, cover 1a) (Piel) to overlay, plate, stud 1b) (Pual) to be laid over
Tsaphah means “cover” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6823 צָּפָה (tsaphah) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. tsaphah (tsaw-faw') v. 1. to sheet over (especially with metal) [a primitive root (probably identical with H6822 through the idea of expansion in outlook, transferring to action)] It has 40 linked Bible usages across 6 books. Visible English usage signals include gold, overlaid, shalt, made, and overlay. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
tsaphah (tsaw-faw') v. 1. to sheet over (especially with metal) [a primitive root (probably identical with H6822 through the idea of expansion in outlook, transferring to action)] KJV: cover, overlay. Root(s): H6822
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to overlay
Usage: 1) to lay out, lay over, overlay, cover 1a) (Piel) to overlay, plate, stud 1b) (Pual) to be laid over
Frequent English words from the visible usage excerpts. These are not a replacement for the original-language definition, but they make the usage pattern easier to scan.
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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40 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
First 40 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6823.
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.
And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.
And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
And thou shalt make the horns of it upon the four corners thereof: his horns shall be of the same: and thou shalt overlay it with brass.
And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.
And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, the top thereof, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns thereof; and thou shalt make unto it a crown of gold round about.
And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
And he overlaid the boards with gold, and made their rings of gold to be places for the bars, and overlaid the bars with gold.
And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.
And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.
And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made thereunto a crown of gold round about.
And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold, to bear the table.
And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.
And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
And he made the horns thereof on the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of the same: and he overlaid it with brass.
And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with brass.
And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their chapiters, and filleted them.
And he built the walls of the house within with boards of cedar, both the floor of the house, and the walls of the ceiling: and he covered them on the inside with wood, and covered the floor of the house with planks of fir.
And the oracle in the forepart was twenty cubits in length, and twenty cubits in breadth, and twenty cubits in the height thereof: and he overlaid it with pure gold; and so covered the altar which was of cedar.
So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.
And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until he had finished all the house: also the whole altar that was by the oracle he overlaid with gold.
And he overlaid the cherubims with gold.
And the floors of the house he overlaid with gold, within and without.
The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.
And he carved thereon cherubims and palm trees and open flowers: and covered them with gold fitted upon the carved work.
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with the best gold.
At that time did Hezekiah cut off the gold from the doors of the temple of the LORD, and from the pillars which Hezekiah king of Judah had overlaid, and gave it to the king of Assyria.
And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.
And he garnished the house with precious stones for beauty: and the gold was gold of Parvaim.
And in the most holy house he made two cherubims of image work, and overlaid them with gold.
Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.
Moreover the king made a great throne of ivory, and overlaid it with pure gold.
Burning lips and a wicked heart are like a potsherd covered with silver dross.
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6823, grouped by book.
Tsaphah (Strong's H6823) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cover". tsaphah (tsaw-faw') v. 1. to sheet over (especially with metal) [a primitive root (probably identical with H6822 through the idea of expansion in outlook, transferring to action)]
This page currently indexes 40 linked usages for Strong's H6823 across 6 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6823 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as gold, overlaid, shalt, made, overlay, and wood. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.