To cover
כָּסָהStrong’s H3680kasah (ka-sah)
Appears in 149 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kasah is the Hebrew word usually translated “cover”, “it covered” and “which covers”. It appears in 149 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.”
Meaning
- To cover, conceal, hide(Qal) conceal, covered (participle) · (Niphal) to be covered · (Piel) · (Pual) · (Hithpael) to cover oneself, clothe oneself
How it's translated
- to cover 13
- and it covered 7
- which covers 7
- it has covered 5
- and they will cover 5
- and they covered 4
- and it will cover 4
- covered 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 20
- Psalms 17
- Exodus 15
- Numbers 12
- Job 11
- Proverbs 11
26 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 7:20Fifteen cubits upward did the waters prevail; and the mountains were covered.
- Genesis 9:23And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were backward, and they saw not their father’s nakedness.
- Genesis 18:17And the LORD said, Shall I hide from Abraham that thing which I do;
- Genesis 24:65For she had said unto the servant, What man is this that walketh in the field to meet us? And the servant had said, It is my master: therefore she took a vail, and covered herself.
- Genesis 37:26And Judah said unto his brethren, What profit is it if we slay our brother, and conceal his blood?
- Genesis 38:14And she put her widow’s garments off from her, and covered her with a vail, and wrapped herself, and sat in an open place, which is by the way to Timnath; for she saw that Shelah was grown, and she was not given unto him to wife.
All 149 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
כָּסָה kasah · to cover
1) to cover, conceal, hide 1a) (Qal) conceal, covered (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be covered 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to cover, clothe 1c2) to cover, conceal 1c3) to cover (for protection) 1c4) to cover over, spread over 1c5) to cover, overwhelm 1d) (Pual) 1d1) to be covered 1d2) to be clothed 1e) (Hithpael) to cover oneself, clothe oneself
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cover” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COVER, verb transitive
[Latin]
- To overspread the surface of a thing with another substance; to lay or set over; as, to cover a table with a cloth, or a floor with a carpet.“The valleys are covered with corn” Psalms 65:13“The locusts shall cover the face of the earth” Exodus 10:5
- To hide; to conceal by something overspread.“If I say, surely the darkness shall cover me--” Psalms 139:11
- To conceal by some intervening object; as, the enemy was covered from our sight by a forest.
- To clothe; as, to cover with a robe or mantle; to cover nakedness. 1 Samuel 28:14Exodus 28:42
All definitions and other forms of “cover”
- To overwhelm.
- To conceal from notice or punishment.“Charity shall cover the multitude of sins” 1 Peter 4:8
- To conceal; to refrain from disclosing or confessing.“He that covereth his sin shall not prosper” Proverbs 28:13
- To pardon or remit.
- To vail, applied to women. 1 Corinthians 11:7
- To wrap, infold or envelop; as, to cover a package of goods.
- To shelter; to protect; to defend.
- To brood; to incubate; as, a hen covering her eggs.
- To copulate with a female.
- To equal, or be of equal extent; to be equivalent to; as, the receipts do not cover the expenses; a mercantile use of the word.
- To disguise; to conceal hypocritically.
- To include, embrace or comprehend.
COVER, noun
- Any thing which is laid, set or spread over another thing; as the cover of a vessel; the cover of a bed.
- Any thing which vails or conceals; a screen; disguise; superficial appearance.
- Shelter; defense; protection.
- Concealment and protection.
- Shelter; retreat; in hunting.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.