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# מְכַסֶּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4374

**covering** — used 4 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/1502/4374/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מְכַסֶּה: n.m. covering [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4374/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 23:18 covering;—מ׳ Lv 9:19 Is 23:18; sf. מְכַסֵּךְ Ez 27:7; pl. sf. מְכַסֶּיךָ Is 14:11; of fat covering (the inwards) Lv 9:19; worms, covering the dead Is 14:11, deck of a ship Ez 27:7 (Co Kajütenwand); garment Is 23:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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 (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: covering (3); coverings (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 14:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.11/#tree)

הוּרַ֥ד שְׁא֛וֹל גְּאוֹנֶ֖ךָ הֶמְיַ֣ת נְבָלֶ֑יךָ תַּחְתֶּ֙יךָ֙ יֻצַּ֣ע רִמָּ֔ה וּמְכַסֶּ֖יךָ תּוֹלֵעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* it.has.been.brought.down Sheol pride your the.sound your.lyres your under you it.is.spread.as.a.bed maggot\[s\] and coverings your \[are\].worm\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Thy pomp is brought down to the nether-world, and the noise of thy psalteries; the maggot is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.'

[Leviticus 9:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.9.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/LEV.9.19/#tree)

וְאֶת־הַחֲלָבִ֖ים מִן־הַשּׁ֑וֹר וּמִן־הָאַ֔יִל הָֽאַלְיָ֤ה וְהַֽמְכַסֶּה֙ וְהַכְּלָיֹ֔ת וְיֹתֶ֖רֶת הַכָּבֵֽד׃

*Word for word:* and (et) the fat(s) from the ox and from the ram the.fat tail and the covering and the kidneys and the.lobe of the.liver

*JPS 1917:* and the fat of the ox, and of the ram, the fat tail, and that which covereth the inwards, and the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4374.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4374/): 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).