Veil
מַסְוֶהStrong’s H4533masveh (mas-veh)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Masveh is the Hebrew word usually translated “veil”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And till Moses had done speaking with them, he put a vail on his face.”
Meaning
- Veil
How it's translated
- the veil 2
- a veil 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 34:34But when Moses went in before the LORD to speak with him, he took the vail off, until he came out. And he came out, and spake unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.
- Exodus 34:35And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the vail upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.
Hebrew dictionary
מַסְוֶה masveh · veil
veil
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “veil” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
VEIL, noun
[Latin velum.
- A cover; a curtain; something to intercept the view and lude an object.
- A cover; a disguise. [See Vail.
All definitions and other forms of “veil”
VEIL, verb transitive
- To cover with a veil; to conceal.
- To invest; to cover.
- To hide. [See Vail.]
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.