Word

פֹּרֶכֶת

pôreketh · H6532 · Hebrew · 25 occurrences

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Thing

Curtain, veil, drapeJewish Temple31 verses

Meanings

curtain

A relatively large piece of cloth, woven by a craftsman with costly materials, separating the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place in the sanctuary, and covering the Ark of the Covenant when it was being moved

Examples
Exodus 26:31 “You shall also make a veil of violet, purple, and scarlet material, and fine twisted linen; it shall be made with cherubim, the work of a skilled embroiderer.
Exodus 26:33 “You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and bring in the ark of the testimony there within the veil; and the veil shall serve as a partition for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place.
Exodus 26:35 “And you shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south; and you shall put the table on the north side.

How it’s used In 6 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

6 occurrences in 3 groups

מָסָךְscreen 4
עֵדוּתtestimony, decree 1
קֹדֶשׁholiness 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

עֵדוּתtestimony, decree 1
אָרוֹןark, chest 1

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

בָּדַלto separate, to set apart 1

What is done to itIt is the object

7 occurrences in 5 groups

עָשָׂהto do, to make 3
יָרַדto go down, to come down 1
נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
סָכַךְto cover, to shelter 1
שׂוּםto put, to set, to place 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

10 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for 9
אֵלto, toward 1

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

5 occurrences in 2 groups

פָּנִיםface, presence, before 4
אֶדֶןbase 1

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

καταπέτασμα katapétasma · G2665 · drape, curtain, veil: Hebrew פֹּרֶכֶת and Greek καταπέτασμα (‘something spread thoroughly,’ specifically the screen before the Most Holy Place) both denote the temple veil or curtain screening the Most Holy Place, and are direct cross-linguistic equivalents across Old and New Testament contexts.

Semantic domains 1 entry

Furnishings001003001001008: פֹּרֶכֶת denotes the veil, the woven curtain separating the holy place from the most holy place in the tabernacle, repeatedly detailed among its sacred furnishings in Exodus 26:31-33 and its parallel construction throughout the tabernacle account.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

פֶּרֶךְ perek · H6531 · harshness, harsh rigor · 6×פֹּרֶכֶתpôreketh · H6532

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6532. paroketh מָּרֹ֫כֶת25 noun feminine curtain, before Most Holy Place, in tabernacle…

H6532. paroketh
מָּרֹ֫כֶת25 noun feminine curtain, before Most Holy Place, in tabernacle (P) (properly that which habitually shuts off, i.e. *parrâku (LagBN 88) Köii. 1, 201); — ׳פ absolute Exo 26:31 Exo 26:17t. P; construct ׳פ הַמָּסָ֑ךְ Exo 35:12; Exo 39:34; Exo 40:21; Num 4:5, ׳פ הַקֹּדֶשׁ Lev 4:6, ׳פ הָעֵדוּת Lev 24:3; in temple 2Ch 3:14.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Furnishings25 occurrences

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