STRONGS NUMBER H2853


Word Summary
chathal: perhaps entwine, enwrap
Original Word: חָתַל
Transliteration: chathal
Phonetic Spelling: (khaw-thal')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: perhaps entwine, enwrap
Meaning: perhaps entwine, enwrap
Strong's Concordance
swaddle

A primitive root; to swathe -- X at all, swaddle.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H2853. chathal

[חָתַל‎] verb perhaps entwine, enwrap (possibly denominative, so MV and others; yet compare Late Hebrew חוֺתָלwoven date-basket) —

Pu`al Perfect2feminine singular חֻתַּלְתְּ‎ and

Hoph`al Infinitive absolute הָחְתֵּלbe swathed, swaddled; — חֻתַּלְתְּ לֹא וְהָחְתֵּל הֻמְלַ֫חַתְּ לֹא וְהָמְלֵחַEzekiel 16:4 and not at all wast thou rubbed with salt, and not at all wast thou swaddled, of Jerusalem under figure of infant.