Rug
שְׂמִיכָהStrong’s H8063semikhah (se-mi-khah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Semikhah is the Hebrew word usually translated “covering”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.”
Meaning
- Rug, coverlet, thick coverlet
How it's translated
- with the covering 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
1 book in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שְׂמִיכָה semikhah · rug
rug, coverlet, thick coverlet
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “rug” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RUG, noun
[This belongs to the great family of rough, Latin ruga, raucus.]
- A coarse nappy woolen cloth used for a bed cover, and in modern times particularly, for covering the carpet before a fire-place.
- A rough, woolly or shaggy dog.
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.