מִכְסֶה
mikçeh · H4372 · Hebrew · 16 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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a covering
A relatively large, flat object made out of cloth, skin, wood, or other materials, used to cover another object
ExamplesGenesis 8:13 Now it came about in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first of the month, that the water was dried up from the earth. Then Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and behold, the surface of the ground had dried up.
Exodus 26:14 “And you shall make a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red and a covering of fine leather above.
Exodus 35:11 the tabernacle, its tent and its covering, its hooks and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its bases;
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
14 occurrences in 5 groups
- עוֹרskin 8
- הוּhis 3
- אֹהֶלtent 1
- תֵּבָהbasket 1
- תַּחַשׁdugong 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- וֹhim 1
What is done to itIt is the object
4 occurrences in 3 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 2
- סוּרto turn aside, to depart, to remove 1
- שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
4 occurrences in 2 groups
- בin/on/with 6
- אֵלto, toward 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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In the other Testament 1 word
- κάλυμα kályma · G2571 · veil
- Greek κάλυμα specifically denotes a covering used as a veil (particularly in ritual/symbolic contexts), while Hebrew מִכְסֶה represents the broader semantic field of any covering or concealment.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Artifacts001003001001
- מִכְסֶה names a covering, most often the layered animal-skin coverings that protected the tabernacle's tent structure (Exodus 26:14; 36:19; Numbers 4:8-12).
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4372. mikseh מִכְסֶה noun [masculine] covering; — ׳מ Exo 26:14; Exo 36:19; construct…
מִכְסֶה noun [masculine] covering; — ׳מ Exo 26:14; Exo 36:19; construct מִכְסֵה Gen 8:13 Gen 8:10t.; suffix מִכְסֵהוּ Exo 35:11 Exo 35:2t.; —
1 covering of the ark, deck-roof (ᵐ5 στέγη) Gen 8:13 (J).
2 of the skins of the tent of meeting Exo 26:14 (twice in verse); Exo 35:11; Exo 36:19 (twice in verse); Exo 39:34 (twice in verse); Exo 40:19; Num 3:25; Num 4:8, Num 4:10, Num 4:11, Num 4:12, Num 4:25 (twice in verse) (all P).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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