To wrap
צָנַףStrong’s H6801tsanaph (tsa-naph)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsanaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “wind”, “certainly” and “wind up you”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to wrap, wrap or wind up together, wind around
How it's translated
- he will wind 1
- certainly 1
- he will wind up you 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
- Isaiah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
צָנַף tsanaph · to wrap
(Qal) to wrap, wrap or wind up together, wind around
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “wrap” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
WRAP, verb transitive
preterit tense and participle passive wrapped or wrapt.
- To wind or fold together.
- To involve; to cover by winding something round; often with up; as, to wrap up a child in its blanket; wrap the body well with flannel in winter.
- To involve; to hide; as truth wrapt in tales.
- To comprise; to contain.
All definitions
- To involve totally.
- To inclose.
- To snatch up; to transport.
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.