כְּסוּת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3682

covering — used 8 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 →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

כְּסוּת: n.f. covering tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.f. covering—כ׳ Gn 20:16 + 3 times; sf. כְּסוּתְךָ Dt 22:12 + 3 times sfs.;— covering, clothing Ex 21:10; 22:26 (Covt. code), Dt 22:12 Jb 24:7; 31:19; of שַׂק as clothing of heavens Is 50:3 in fig. covering for concealment, of Abaddon, the subterranean abode of the dead Jb 26:6; כ׳ עֵינַיִם, covering of the eyes Gn 20:16 (so that they cannot see the wrong, fig. of a present offered in compensation for it; E).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: covering (5); [is] a covering (1); a covering (1).

In the verses

Isaiah 50:3 · tree →

אַלְבִּ֥ישׁ שָׁמַ֖יִם קַדְר֑וּת וְשַׂ֖ק אָשִׂ֥ים כְּסוּתָֽם׃ס

Word for word: I.clothe [the].heavens darkness and sackcloth I.make covering their

JPS 1917: I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.

Job 26:6 · tree →

עָר֣וֹם שְׁא֣וֹל נֶגְדּ֑וֹ וְאֵ֥ין כְּ֝ס֗וּת לָֽאֲבַדּֽוֹן׃

Word for word: [is].naked Sheol before him and there.[is].not a.covering for (the) Abaddon

JPS 1917: The nether-world is naked before Him, and Destruction hath no covering.

On Mova

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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).

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