לָאַט lâʼaṭ — to muffle

pronounced law-at' · Strong's H3813 · 1 occurrence in the Hebrew Bible · 1 stem: Qal (Pa'al)

Translated in the KJV as cover.

a primitive root; to muffle.

lâʼaṭ in each stem

Qal (Pa'al) 1×

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 1

לָאַ֣ט 2Sam 19:5 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines; (KJV)

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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