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# כָּסוּי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3681

**covering** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

covering [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3681/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כָּסוּי: covering [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3681/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] covering, only cstr. כְּסוּי עוֹר covering of skins Nu 4:6, 14 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a covering (2).

## In the verses

[Numbers 4:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.6/#tree)

וְנָתְנ֣וּ עָלָ֗יו כְּסוּי֙ ע֣וֹר תַּ֔חַשׁ וּפָרְשׂ֧וּ בֶֽגֶד־כְּלִ֛יל תְּכֵ֖לֶת מִלְמָ֑עְלָה וְשָׂמ֖וּ בַּדָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.put over it a.covering of.skin of.dolphin and they.will.spread.out a.covering of.an.entirety of.violet.stuff from to above and they.will.put.in poles its

*JPS 1917:* and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall set the staves thereof.

[Numbers 4:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.14/#tree)

וְנָתְנ֣וּ עָ֠לָיו אֶֽת־כָּל־כֵּלָ֞יו אֲשֶׁ֣ר יְֽשָׁרְת֧וּ עָלָ֣יו בָּהֶ֗ם אֶת־הַמַּחְתֹּ֤ת אֶת־הַמִּזְלָגֹת֙ וְאֶת־הַיָּעִ֣ים וְאֶת־הַמִּזְרָקֹ֔ת כֹּ֖ל כְּלֵ֣י הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ וּפָרְשׂ֣וּ עָלָ֗יו כְּס֛וּי ע֥וֹר תַּ֖חַשׁ וְשָׂמ֥וּ בַדָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.put on it (et) all articles its which they.will.serve at it by them (et) the fire-pans (et) the forks and (et) the shovels and (et) the bowls all the.articles of the.altar and they.will.spread.out over it a.covering of.skin of.dolphin and they.will.put.in poles its

*JPS 1917:* And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, the fire-pans, the flesh-hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of sealskin, and set the staves thereof.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3681.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3681/): 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).