Strong's Definition
to wrap, i.e. cover, veil, cloth, or roll
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: array self, be clad, (put a) cover (-ing, self), fill, put on, [idiom] surely, turn aside.
TWOT Reference: 1601,1602
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
עָטָה (a.tah) — to enwrap. 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
עָטָה (a.tah) — to grasp. 1) to grasp 1a) (Qal) to grasp
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מַעֲטֶה
Cover | verb qal, verb hif
to cover = causative action by which someone puts an object on top of or in front of something else
Dress | verb qal
to wear = state in which humans wear a piece of clothing wrapped around their body
1SA 28:14 · PSA 71:13 · PSA 104:2 · PSA 109:19 · PSA 109:29 · SNG 1:7
Dress | verb qal
to put on = action by which humans put on a piece of clothing by wrapping it around their body
Bear | verb hif
Collocation: עטה בּוּשָׁה
to cover with shame = causative action by which deities cause humans to be humiliated, ◄ as if covering them with a layer of shame
1 SNG 1:7 MT HOTTP-B NIV "veiled woman" NRSV "one who is veiled" ESV "one who veils herself" | RSV "one who wanders" NJPS "one who strays" NJB "vagabond" = תעיה
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
עָטָה vb. wrap oneself, enwrap, envelop oneself Qal wrap, envelop oneself with sthg.
Hiph. thou hast wrapped shame upon him
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[עָטָה] vb. grasp;—Qal Is 22:17 ref