Curtain
פָּרֹ֫כֶתStrong’s H6532porekhet (po-re-khet)
Appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Porekhet is the Hebrew word usually translated “curtain” and “curtain of”. It appears in 23 verses of the Old Testament.
“And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:”
Meaning
- Curtain, veil
How it's translated
- the curtain 10
- to the curtain 5
- curtain of 5
- of the curtain 3
- a curtain 1
- of curtain of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 13
- Leviticus 7
- Numbers 2
- 2 Chronicles 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 26:33And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
- Exodus 26:35And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
- Exodus 27:21In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
- Exodus 30:6And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.
- Exodus 35:12The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
- Exodus 36:35And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
Hebrew dictionary
פָּרֹ֫כֶת porekhet · curtain
curtain, veil
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “curtain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CURTAIN, noun
[Low Latin, in fortification. This word may be from the root of court, and from the sense of separating.]
- A cloth hanging round a bed, or at a window, which may be contracted, spread or drawn aside at pleasure; intended for ornament, or for use.
- A cloth-hanging used in theaters, to conceal the stage from the spectators.
- In fortification, that part of the rampart which is between the flanks of two bastions, bordered with a parapet five feet high, behind which the soldiers stand to fire on the covered way and into the moat.
- In scripture, tents; dwellings. Habakkuk 3:7
All definitions and other forms of “curtain”
CURTAIN, verb transitive
To inclose with curtains; to furnish with curtains.
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.