חֻפָּה
chamber
also: room, canopy, closet fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H2646 appears in the Book of Isaiah — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Isaiah
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“chamber” is the headline sense of the Hebrew noun חפה (chuppâh). The Hebrew Bible uses it only 3 verses. It concentrates in Psalms, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. First canonically at Psalms 19:5, it enters the text early. Beyond “chamber” it also covers “room”, “canopy”, and “closet” — see its full sense range. See the sense tree, 3-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2646 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 3 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 67%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 33%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Chamber 1×, Closet 1×, Shall be a defence 1×
- American Standard Version†: Chamber 1×, Closet 1×, Shall be spread a covering 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Chamber 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Chamber 1×, Room 1×, Will be a canopy 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2646 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2646 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2646 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2646 across 3† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 2 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
חפה I ii. חֻפָּה v. sub חפף.
חפה II canopy, chamber (as covering, enclosing)
- 1. canopy, על־כל־כבוד ח׳ Is 4:5 over all glory a canopy (for protection). e.g. Isaiah 4:5
- 2. chamber, of bridegroom ψ 19:6 (metaph. of sun rising); of bride Jo 2:16 (‖ חֶדֶר of bridegroom). e.g. Psalms 19:6
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
I. ii. חֻפָּה v. sub חפף.
II. n.f. canopy, chamber (as covering, enclosing)—abs. ח׳ Is 4:5; sf. חֻפָּתוֹ ψ 19:6; חֻפָּתָהּ Jo 2:16;—
III. n.pr.m. 1 Ch 24:13 priest of 13th course 𝔊 Οφφα.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from חפה (châphâh) (H2645) — to cover.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
חֵפָה
- , v. חֵפֶת
חָפָה
- , v. חפי
חפי
- 1. to cover, spread over. Ḥull. III, 7 וכנפיו חוֹפִין וכ׳ and whose wings cover the largest portion of its body. Sot. IX, 15 (49ᵃ) וחָפוּ ראשם and covered their heads (in shame).—Part. pass. חָפוּי. Esth. R. to VI, 12 וחֲפוּי ראש וכ׳ and his head covered (in shame) over what had happened to him; Meg. 16ᵃ
- 2. to bend, curve. Yoma 47ᵃ חוֹפֶה שלש וכ׳ he bends three of his fingers (grasping with them) up to &c.; cmp. חָפַן.
- 1. to cover, strew over. Tosef. Kil. I, 15 המְחַפֶּה who covers up (mixed seeds with earth); M. Kat. 2ᵇ; Macc. 21ᵇ. Ib. החופה ed. (Ms. M. המח׳). Y. Kil. VII, 31ᵇ לא במחפה is it not because in plowing over he covers the seeds up? Shebi. IV, 5 לא יְהַפֵּהוּ בעפר he must not cover it (the cut) with loose ground, opp. to (כסה) covering with stones. Y. Taan. II, beg. 65ᵃ אבותינו חִיפּוּ … חִיפִּינוּ וכ׳ our ancestors covered it (the reader’s desk) with gold, and we with dust. Nidd. 16ᵃ ותְחַפֶּנָּהּ וכ׳ and semen virile may have covered it up; a. e.
- 2. to cover over, to protect from justice, to be partial. Shebu. 39ᵃ מפני שמְחַפִּין עליו because they (the publican’s or robber’s relations) protect him. Ex. R. s. 30 היו מְחַפִּין אותו tried to protect him; a. e.
- 3. (cmp. גָּבַב) [to heap up words,] to invent fictions (v. II Kings XVII, 9). Gen. R. s. 94 (play on הפים, ib. XLVI, 21) שחִיפּוּ עליו דברים וכ׳ about whom they invented a fiction (Gen. XXXVII, 3). e.g. 2 Kings 17:9
חֵפֶת
- (חפף I, v. חִיפָּא) border of a garment (limbus), a kind of front bosom in which things can be hidden. Sabb. X, 3 (92ᵃ) ובח׳ חלוקו Ms. M. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note, ed. ובשפת) in the bosom of his shirt. Yoma 77ᵇ ובלבד … מח׳ חלוקו Ms. M. (ed. מתחת ח׳) provided he takes not his hand out of the bosom of his shirt (to throw his cloak over his shoulder). Sabb. 96ᵇ, v. חִיפָּא.—Denom.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H2646 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| חֻפָּֽה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 4:5 | 1 |
| מֵ/חֻפָּת֑/וֹ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 19:5 | 1 |
| מֵ/חֻפָּתָֽ/הּ | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Joel 2:16 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H2646, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
