To overlay
צָפָהStrong’s H6823tsaphah (tsa-phah)
Appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Tsaphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “overlaid”, “overlay” and “overlaid it”. It appears in 40 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, within and without shalt thou overlay it, and shalt make upon it a crown of gold round about.”
Meaning
- To lay out, lay over, overlay, cover(Piel) to overlay, plate, stud · (Pual) to be laid over
How it's translated
- and he overlaid 17
- and you will overlay 10
- he overlaid 6
- and he overlaid it 6
- overlaid 2
- you will overlay it 1
- you will overlay 1
- and he overlaid them 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 23
- 1 Kings 9
- 2 Chronicles 5
- 2 Kings 1
- Proverbs 1
- Isaiah 1
6 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 25:13And thou shalt make staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold.
- Exodus 25:24And thou shalt overlay it with pure gold, and make thereto a crown of gold round about.
- Exodus 25:28And thou shalt make the staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, that the table may be borne with them.
- Exodus 26:29And thou shalt overlay the boards with gold, and make their rings of gold for places for the bars: and thou shalt overlay the bars with gold.
- Exodus 26:32And thou shalt hang it upon four pillars of shittim wood overlaid with gold: their hooks shall be of gold, upon the four sockets of silver.
- Exodus 26:37And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
Hebrew dictionary
צָפָה tsaphah · to overlay
1) to lay out, lay over, overlay, cover 1a) (Piel) to overlay, plate, stud 1b) (Pual) to be laid over
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “overlay” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OVERLA'Y, verb transitive
- To lay too much upon; to oppress with incumbent weight; as a country overlaid with inhabitants.
- To cover to spread over the surface; as, to overlay capitals of columns with silver; cedar overlaid with gold.
- To smother with close covering; as, to overlay an infant.
- To overwhelm; to smother.
All definitions
- To cloud; to overcast.
- To cover; to join two opposite sides by a cover.
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.