Covering
מָסָךְStrong’s H4539masakh (ma-sakh)
Appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Masakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “screen of”, “screen” and “covering”. It appears in 25 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.”
Meaning
- Covering, rag, screencovering · screen (of the tabernacle)
How it's translated
- screen of 10
- the screen 5
- a screen 3
- and screen of 2
- for the screen 1
- and the screen 1
- the covering 1
- to a covering 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 16
- Numbers 6
- 2 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
- Isaiah 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 26:37And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
- Exodus 27:16And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
- Exodus 35:12The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
- Exodus 35:15And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
- Exodus 35:17The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,
- Exodus 36:37And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
Hebrew dictionary
מָסָךְ masakh · covering
1) covering, rag, screen 1a) covering 1b) screen (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.