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# מָסָךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4539

**covering** — used 25 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/1502/4539/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָסָךְ²: covering, screen [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4539/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] covering, screen;—abs. מ׳ 2 S 17:19 + 11 times; cstr. מָסַךְ Is 22:8 + 12 times;— covering, large cloth spread (פרש) over well to hide persons within 2 S 17:19; fig. of protection, or of eye-screen, וַיְגַל אֶת־מ׳ יְהוּדָה Is 22:8; screen, of cloud ψ 105:39 (פרשׂ). name given (in P) to each of three screens, of tabern.: at gate (שַׁעַר) of court Ex 27:16; 35:17; 38:18; 39:40; 40:8, 33; Nu 3:26 (פֶּתַח), 4:26. at entrance (פֶּתַח) of tent Ex 26:36, 37; 35:15; 36:37; 39:38; 40:5, 28; Nu 3:25, 31; 4:25. פָּרֹכֶת הַמּ׳ (v. פ׳), dividing off the Most Holy Place within the tent, Ex 35:12; 39:34; 40:21 Nu 4:5.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 24 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the screen (16); a screen (3); screen (3).

## In the verses

[Exodus 40:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.40.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.40.28/#tree)

וַיָּ֛שֶׂם אֶת־מָסַ֥ךְ הַפֶּ֖תַח לַמִּשְׁכָּֽן׃

*Word for word:* and he.set.up (et) the.screen of the.entrance of the tabernacle

*JPS 1917:* And he put the screen of the door to the tabernacle.

[Psalms 105:39](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.39/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.105.39/#tree)

פָּרַ֣שׂ עָנָ֣ן לְמָסָ֑ךְ וְ֝אֵ֗שׁ לְהָאִ֥יר לָֽיְלָה׃

*Word for word:* he.spread.out a.cloud to a.covering and fire to give.light night

*JPS 1917:* He spread a cloud for a screen; and fire to give light in the night.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4539.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4539/): 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).