חָפָה châphâh — to cover
Translated in the KJV as ceil, cover, overlay.
a primitive root (compare H2644, H2653); to cover; by implication, to veil, to encase, protect.
châphâh in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 4Participle (passive) 2
And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.
And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.
Then the king returned out of the palace garden into the place of the banquet of wine; and Haman was fallen upon the bed whereon Esther was. Then said the king, Will he force the queen also before me in the house? As the word went out of the king’s mouth, they covered Haman’s face.
Pi'el
Wayyiqtol 3Perfect (qatal) 2
And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
He overlaid also the house, the beams, the posts, and the walls thereof, and the doors thereof, with gold; and graved cherubims on the walls.
And he made the most holy house, the length whereof was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits: and he overlaid it with fine gold, amounting to six hundred talents.
Niph'al
Participle (active) 1
When the Almighty scattered kings in it, it was white as snow in Salmon.
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 ›