To cover
סָפַןStrong’s H5603saphan (sa-phan)
Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saphan is the Hebrew word usually translated “paneled”, “reserved” and “covered”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.
“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.”
Meaning
- To cover, cover in, wainscotted, covered with boards or panelling(Qal)
How it's translated
- and paneled 3
- reserved 1
- and he covered 1
- covered 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 3
- Deuteronomy 1
- Jeremiah 1
- Haggai 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 6:9So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.
- 1 Kings 7:3And it was covered with cedar above upon the beams, that lay on forty five pillars, fifteen in a row.
- 1 Kings 7:7Then he made a porch for the throne where he might judge, even the porch of judgment: and it was covered with cedar from one side of the floor to the other.
- Jeremiah 22:14That saith, I will build me a wide house and large chambers, and cutteth him out windows; and it is cieled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.
- Haggai 1:4Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell in your cieled houses, and this house lie waste?
Hebrew dictionary
סָפַן saphan · to cover
1) to cover, cover in, wainscotted, covered with boards or panelling 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to cover in, panel 1a2) covered, panelled (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cover” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COVER, verb transitive
[Latin]
- To overspread the surface of a thing with another substance; to lay or set over; as, to cover a table with a cloth, or a floor with a carpet.“The valleys are covered with corn” Psalms 65:13“The locusts shall cover the face of the earth” Exodus 10:5
- To hide; to conceal by something overspread.“If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me--” Psalms 139:11
- To conceal by some intervening object; as, the enemy was covered from our sight by a forest.
- To clothe; as, to cover with a robe or mantle; to cover nakedness. 1 Samuel 28:14Exodus 28:42
All definitions and other forms of “cover”
- To overwhelm.
- To conceal from notice or punishment.“Charity shall cover the multitude of sins” 1 Peter 4:8
- To conceal; to refrain from disclosing or confessing.“He that covereth his sin shall not prosper” Proverbs 28:13
- To pardon or remit.
- To vail, applied to women. 1 Corinthians 11:7
- To wrap, infold or envelop; as, to cover a package of goods.
- To shelter; to protect; to defend.
- To brood; to incubate; as, a hen covering her eggs.
- To copulate with a female.
- To equal, or be of equal extent; to be equivalent to; as, the receipts do not cover the expenses; a mercantile use of the word.
- To disguise; to conceal hypocritically.
- To include, embrace or comprehend.
COVER, noun
- Any thing which is laid, set or spread over another thing; as the cover of a vessel; the cover of a bed.
- Any thing which vails or conceals; a screen; disguise; superficial appearance.
- Shelter; defense; protection.
- Concealment and protection.
- Shelter; retreat; in hunting.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.