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# דֹּק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1852

**veil** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

veil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1852/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

דֹּק: veil, curtain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1852/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] veil, curtain (as thin), הַנּוֹטֶה כַּדֹּק שָׁמַיִם Is 40:22 he who spreadeth out, like a veil, the heavens.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: curtain (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 40:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.22/#tree)

הַיֹּשֵׁב֙ עַל־ח֣וּג הָאָ֔רֶץ וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ כַּחֲגָבִ֑ים הַנּוֹטֶ֤ה כַדֹּק֙ שָׁמַ֔יִם וַיִּמְתָּחֵ֥ם כָּאֹ֖הֶל לָשָֽׁבֶת׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one who\].sits above the.circle of the.earth and inhabitants its \[are\].like grasshoppers the.\[one who\].stretched.out like (the) curtain \[the\].heavens and he spread.them.out like (the) tent to dwell.in

*JPS 1917:* It is He that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1852.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1852/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).