Covering
מִכְסֶהStrong’s H4372mikhseh (mikh-seh)
Appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mikhseh is the Hebrew word usually translated “covering of”, “covering its” and “covering”. It appears in 12 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.”
Meaning
- A coveringcovering (of the ark) · covering (of the skins of the tabernacle)
How it's translated
- covering of 4
- covering its 3
- with a covering of 3
- a covering 2
- and a covering of 2
- a covering of 1
- and covering of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 6
- Exodus 5
- Genesis 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 26:14And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering above of badgers’ skins.
- Exodus 35:11The tabernacle, his tent, and his covering, his taches, and his boards, his bars, his pillars, and his sockets,
- Exodus 36:19And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of badgers’ skins above that.
- Exodus 39:34And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and the vail of the covering,
- Exodus 40:19And he spread abroad the tent over the tabernacle, and put the covering of the tent above upon it; as the LORD commanded Moses.
- Numbers 3:25And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
Hebrew dictionary
מִכְסֶה mikhseh · covering
1) a covering 1a) covering (of the ark) 1b) covering (of the skins of the tabernacle)
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.