לוּט
to wrap
‘to wrap’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘it is wrapped up in a garment’
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (33%)
- Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3874 appears — 3 distinct verses across 3 books. 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.
1 Samuel 1 verse
1 Kings 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
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.
לוט — transliterated lûwṭ — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to wrap.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 3 verses. Its uses concentrate in 1 Samuel (33% of all occurrences). Its earliest occurrence is 1 Samuel 21:9. Across 2 stems, its meaning turns on the binyan (Qal, Hiphil). 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 H3874 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) 3 verses · 100%
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).
- King James Version: Behold it is here wrapped 1×, Cast over 1×, He wrapped 1×
- American Standard Version: Behold 1×, Covereth 1×, It 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: He wrapped 1×, Shroud 1×, Wrapped 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Covering 1×, He wrapped 1×, Wrapped 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3874 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3874 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3874 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3874 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
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.
Qal
- it is wrapped up in a garment; fig. of covering as a sign of mourning
Hiphil
- . envelope, wrap
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
[ לוּט ] vb. wrap closely, tightly, enwrap, envelope
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
לוֹט I
- (b. h.) Lot, the nephew of Abraham. Ber. 54ᵃ הרואה … אשתו של ל׳ he who sees … Lot’s wife (the pillar of salt, Gen. XIX, 26). Erub. 65ᵃ הגיע לשכרותו של ל׳ who is as drunk (unconscious) as Lot. Gen. R. s. 44 (play on the name) לוט לוטא וכ׳ cursed Lot shall not be Abram’s heir; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 19:26
לוֹט II
- lotus. Gen. R. s. 91, end, expl. מַסְטִיכִי q. v.
לוּט
- (v. next w.) to curse. Part. לָט, f. לָטָה, Pl. לָטוֹת. Num. R. s. 9 (ed. Wil. p. 56) הכל נשבעות בך ול׳ זו וכ׳ all (women) shall swear by thee and curse each other saying, if thou hast done this, may thy end be &c.
לוּט ²
- [to cover, talk secretly; cmp. לחש,] to curse. Perf. לָט, לְוַט. Targ. Lev. XX, 9. Targ. I Kings II, 8 לְוָטַנִי; a. fr.—Part. לָאֵיט, לָאט, לָיֵיט, לָיֵט, לוּט. Targ. Y. I Num. XXIII, 8, Targ. Y. II, Num. XXIII, 8. Targ. Gen. XXVII, 29; a. fr.—Part. pass. לִיט, לוּט, לְווּט. Ib. III, 14; a. fr. Gen. R. s. 44 לוֹט לוטא; Yalk. ib. 76 ליטא, v. לוֹט I.—Snh. 49ᵃ top (prov.) תהא לוּטָא ולא תהא לָאטָה ed. (Ms. M. לָיְטָא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note, Rashi ולא לטה) be cursed rather than cursing. Ib. 111ᵃ מֵילַט קא לַיְיטַת לי wilt thou curse me?—Ib. 113ᵃ [read:] ודילמא כי לט יהושע הכי לט (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) is it so that when Joshua cursed (Jericho) he meant &c.?—Lev. R. s. 17 לְווּט ביתא באילין לְווּטַיָּא (בגוה) (Yalk. ib. 563 לִיט) cursed (with leprosy) is the house with such accursed inmates (who refuse favors to their neighbors); ib. (play on שקערורת, Lev. XIV, 37, as if שקע ארר) שקיע ביתא באילין לוו׳ to ruin goes the house with such &c. e.g. Leviticus 14:37
לְוָט
- (preced.) curse. Targ. Is. XIII, 1. Targ. Num. V, 21. Targ. Ex. IX, 28 קלין דל׳ (h. text קלת); Y. ib. 34; a. fr.—Pl. לְוָטִין, לְוָטַיָּא, לְוָו׳. Targ. Gen. XXVII, 12, sq.; a. e.
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 H3874 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/לּ֖וֹט | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 25:7 | 1 |
| וַ/יָּ֤לֶט | Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | 1 Kings 19:13 | 1 |
| לוּטָ֣ה | Verb, Qal, Participle Passive, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 21:9 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3874, 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.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → 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.
