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# מִכְסֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4372

**covering** — used 16 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/1502/4372/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מִכְסֶה: covering [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4372/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] covering;—מ׳ Ex 26:14; 36:19; cstr. מִכְסֵה Gn 8:13 + 10 times; sf. מִכְסֵהוּ Ex 35:11 + 2 times;— covering of the ark, deck-roof (𝔊 στέγη) Gn 8:13 (J). of the skins of the tent of meeting Ex 26:14(×2); 35:11; 36:19(×2); 39:34(×2); 40:19 Nu 3:25; 4:8, 10, 11, 12, 25(×2) (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 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: a covering (8); the covering (5); covering (3).

## In the verses

[Exodus 26:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.26.14/#tree)

וְעָשִׂ֤יתָ מִכְסֶה֙ לָאֹ֔הֶל עֹרֹ֥ת אֵילִ֖ם מְאָדָּמִ֑ים וּמִכְסֵ֛ה עֹרֹ֥ת תְּחָשִׁ֖ים מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃פ

*Word for word:* and you.will.make a.covering for the tent hides of.rams dyed.red and a.covering of.skins of.dolphins from to above

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and a covering of sealskins above.

[Exodus 36:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.36.19/#tree)

וַיַּ֤עַשׂ מִכְסֶה֙ לָאֹ֔הֶל עֹרֹ֥ת אֵלִ֖ים מְאָדָּמִ֑ים וּמִכְסֵ֛ה עֹרֹ֥ת תְּחָשִׁ֖ים מִלְמָֽעְלָה׃ס

*Word for word:* and he.made a.covering for the tent hides of.rams dyed.red and a.covering of.skins of.dolphins from to above

*JPS 1917:* And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4372/): 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).