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# פָּרֹכֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6532

**curtain** — 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

curtain [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6532/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

פָּרֹ֫כֶת: n.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6532/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. curtain, before Most Holy Place, in tabern. (P) (prop. that which habitually shuts off, i.e. parrâku (LagBN 88) Köii. 1, 201);—פ׳ abs. Ex 26:31 + 17 times P; cstr. פ׳ הַמָּסָ֑ךְ Ex 35:12; 39:34; 40:21; Nu 4:5, פ׳ הַקֹּדֶשׁ Lv 4:6, פ׳ הָעֵדוּת 24:3; in temple 2 Ch 3:14.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: curtain (16); the curtain (7); a curtain (1).

## In the verses

[Exodus 40:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.40.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.40.26/#tree)

וַיָּ֛שֶׂם אֶת־מִזְבַּ֥ח הַזָּהָ֖ב בְּאֹ֣הֶל מוֹעֵ֑ד לִפְנֵ֖י הַפָּרֹֽכֶת׃

*Word for word:* and he.put (et) the.altar of.(the) gold in the.tent of.meeting before the curtain

*JPS 1917:* And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil;

[Exodus 35:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.35.12/#tree)

אֶת־הָאָרֹ֥ן וְאֶת־בַּדָּ֖יו אֶת־הַכַּפֹּ֑רֶת וְאֵ֖ת פָּרֹ֥כֶת הַמָּסָֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* (et) the ark and (et) poles its (et) the.atonement cover and (et) the.curtain of the.screen

*JPS 1917:* the ark, and the staves thereof, the ark-cover, and the veil of the screen;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6532.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1508/6532/): 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).