Covering
כְּסוּתStrong’s H3682kesut (ke-sut)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Kesut is the Hebrew word usually translated “covering”, “covering of” and “covering her”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And unto Sarah he said, Behold, I have given thy brother a thousand pieces of silver: behold, he is to thee a covering of the eyes, unto all that are with thee, and with all other: thus she was reproved.”
Meaning
- Covering, clothingcovering (for concealment)
How it's translated
- covering 2
- a covering of 1
- covering her 1
- covering his 1
- covering your 1
- a covering 1
- covering their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 3
- Exodus 2
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 21:10If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
- Exodus 22:27For that is his covering only, it is his raiment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.
- Deuteronomy 22:12Thou shalt make thee fringes upon the four quarters of thy vesture, wherewith thou coverest thyself.
- Job 24:7They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
- Job 26:6Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
- Job 31:19If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
Hebrew dictionary
כְּסוּת kesut · covering
1) covering, clothing 1a) covering, clothing 1b) covering (for concealment)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “covering” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COVERING, participle present
tense Spreading over; laying over; concealing; vailing; clothing; wrapping; inclosing; protecting; disguising.
All definitions and other forms of “covering”
COVERING, noun
- That which convers; any thing spread or laid over another, whether for security or concealment.“Noah removed the covering of the ark” Genesis 8:13“He spread a cloud for a covering” Psalms 105:39“Destruction hath no covering” Job 26:6
- A cover; a lid.“Every open vessel that hath no covering” Numbers 19:15
- Clothing; raiment; garments; dress.“They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold” Job 24:7
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.