sa.pham denotes the facial feature that is repeatedly covered in scenes of mourning, impurity, or shame.

The attested usage chiefly places this noun in instructions or actions of covering a facial feature: the APB describes such covering for a leprous person, for mourners who are told not to do so, and for ashamed seers and diviners. Its construct form also occurs in the arrival scene of 2 Samuel 19:25, though the translation does not make its specific contribution clear.

1. Facial feature covered in public distress · dominant

   In Leviticus 13:45, the absolute form occurs in the instruction that a leprous person cover it while calling out “Unclean, unclean!” In Ezekiel 24:17 and Ezekiel 24:22, the APB renders the command not to cover it in a context of restrained mourning; in Micah 3:7, the seers and diviners cover it when they are put to shame. The construct form in 2 Samuel 19:25 occurs in the account of Mephibosheth meeting the king, but the APB does not identify its specific contribution there.

   Leviticus 13:45Ezekiel 24:17Ezekiel 24:22Micah 3:72 Samuel 19:25

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “mustache” in the four verses about covering or not covering it. In 2 Samuel 19:25, the translation does not visibly represent the construct-form noun, so its individual rendering cannot be isolated.