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# מַסְוֶה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4533

**veil** — used 3 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

veil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4533/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַסְוֶה²: veil [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4533/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] veil;—abs. מ׳ עַל־פָּנָיו Ex 34:33 cf. v 34:35 (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 (9 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: veil (2); a veil (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 34:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.33/#tree)

וַיְכַ֣ל מֹשֶׁ֔ה מִדַּבֵּ֖ר אִתָּ֑ם וַיִּתֵּ֥ן עַל־פָּנָ֖יו מַסְוֶֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.finished Moses from speaking with them and he.put over face his a.veil

*JPS 1917:* And when Moses had done speaking with them, he put a veil on his face.

[Exodus 34:34](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.34/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.34/#tree)

וּבְבֹ֨א מֹשֶׁ֜ה לִפְנֵ֤י יְהוָה֙ לְדַבֵּ֣ר אִתּ֔וֹ יָסִ֥יר אֶת־הַמַּסְוֶ֖ה עַד־צֵאת֑וֹ וְיָצָ֗א וְדִבֶּר֙ אֶל־בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֵ֖ת אֲשֶׁ֥ר יְצֻוֶּֽה׃

*Word for word:* and when went Moses before Yahweh to speak with him he.removed (et) the veil until he came.out and he.came.out and he.spoke to the.people of.Israel (et) \[that\].which he.was.commanded

*JPS 1917:* But when Moses went in before the LORD that He might speak with him, he took the veil off, until he came out; and he came out; and spoke unto the children of Israel that which he was commanded.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4533/): 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).