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# כְּסוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3682

**covering** — used 8 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/1499/3682/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּסוּת: n.f. covering [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3682/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. covering—כ׳ Gn 20:16 + 3 times; sf. כְּסוּתְךָ Dt 22:12 + 3 times sfs.;— covering, clothing Ex 21:10; 22:26 (Covt. code), Dt 22:12 Jb 24:7; 31:19; of שַׂק as clothing of heavens Is 50:3 in fig. covering for concealment, of Abaddon, the subterranean abode of the dead Jb 26:6; כ׳ עֵינַיִם, covering of the eyes Gn 20:16 (so that they cannot see the wrong, fig. of a present offered in compensation for it; E).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: covering (5); \[is\] a covering (1); a covering (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 50:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.3/#tree)

אַלְבִּ֥ישׁ שָׁמַ֖יִם קַדְר֑וּת וְשַׂ֖ק אָשִׂ֥ים כְּסוּתָֽם׃ס

*Word for word:* I.clothe \[the\].heavens darkness and sackcloth I.make covering their

*JPS 1917:* I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

[Job 26:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.6/#tree)

עָר֣וֹם שְׁא֣וֹל נֶגְדּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֥ין כְּ֝ס֗וּת לָֽאֲבַדּֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].naked Sheol before him and there.\[is\].not a.covering for (the) Abaddon

*JPS 1917:* The nether-world is naked before Him, and Destruction hath no covering.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3682.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3682/): 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).