סָפַן çâphan — to hide by covering
Translated in the KJV as cieled, cover, seated.
a primitive root; to hide by covering; specifically, to roof (passive participle as noun, a roof) or wainscot; figuratively, to reserve.
çâphan in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Participle (passive) 5Wayyiqtol 1
And he provided the first part for himself, because there, in a portion of the lawgiver, was he seated; and he came with the heads of the people, he executed the justice of the Lord, and his judgments with Israel.
So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›