Psalms 55:5
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
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Overwhelmed
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Psalms 143:4
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
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עָטַף
ʻâṭaph · aw-taf'
4 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
to shroud, i.e. clothe (whether transitive or reflex.); hence (from the idea of darkness) to languish
Strong's KJV usage: cover (over), fail, faint, feebler, hide self, be overwhelmed, swoon.
Strong's first: Psalms 61:2Strong's last: Psalms 143:4
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kâçâh · kaw-saw'
2 times translated as this KJV form152 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to plump, i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy)
Strong's KJV usage: clad self, close, clothe, conceal, cover (self), (flee to) hide, overwhelm. Compare 3780.
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Strong's first: Psalms 55:5Strong's last: Psalms 78:53
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shâṭaph · shaw-taf'
1 times translated as this KJV form31 total Strong's occurrences
to gush; by implication, to inundate, cleanse; by analogy, to gallop, conquer
Strong's KJV usage: drown, (over-) flow(-whelm, rinse, run, rush, (throughly) wash (away).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Psalms 124:4Strong's last: Psalms 124:4
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H3680
Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me, and horror hath overwhelmed me.
H5848
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
H5848
I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
H3680
And he led them on safely, so that they feared not: but the sea overwhelmed their enemies.
no direct Strong's tag
<<A Prayer of the afflicted, when he is overwhelmed, and poureth out his complaint before the LORD.>> Hear my prayer, O LORD, and let my cry come unto thee.
H7857
Then the waters had overwhelmed us, the stream had gone over our soul:
H5848
When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path. In the way wherein I walked have they privily laid a snare for me.
H5848
Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; my heart within me is desolate.
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overwhelm
OVERWHELM', verb transitive
1. To overspread or crush beneath something violent and weighty, that covers or encompasses the whole; as, to overwhelm with waves.
2. To immerse and bear down; in a figurative sense; as, to be overwhelmed with cares, afflictions or business.
3. To overlook gloomily.
4. To put over. [Not used.]
O'VERWHELM, noun The act of overwhelming.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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