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# sealskin

«sealskin» in Mova's judaism dictionary: **The skin of a seal, used for coats, bags and purses** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (sealskins)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The skin of a seal, used for coats, bags and purses. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sealskin/#m1)

2) Made of sealskin, as in a sealskin purse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sealskin/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In the Tanakh and Jewish tradition: Used for the outermost covering of the Tabernacle tent. The Hebrew word is tachash, and the translators were unsure what animal it meant. Interpretation: Tradition debates what the tachash was. Some sages say it was a special colourful animal that existed only for the building of the Tabernacle, while others think it was a kind of skin or leather. In the primary lessons: in the tales, sealskin is a fine, magic or precious skin that creatures and dwarfs wear or use

### examples

- and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood; (Torah EXO.25.5, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sealskin/#x1)
- And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above. (Torah EXO.36.19, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sealskin/#x2)
- and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of sealskins, and the veil of the screen; (Torah EXO.39.34, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sealskin/#x3)
- I clothed thee also with richly woven work, and shod thee with sealskin, and I wound fine linen about thy head, and covered thee with silk. (Prophets EZK.16.10, JPS 1917) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sealskin/#x4)
- The old man wore a coat of sealskin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sealskin/#x5)
- "Sealskin, are they?" said the moth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sealskin/#x6)
- The little purse was made of soft sealskin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sealskin/#x7)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.705/)
- [And thou shalt make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red and a covering of sealskins above.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.754/)
- [and rams' skins dyed red, and sealskins, and acacia-wood;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1053/)
- [And he made a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of sealskins above.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1101/)
- [and the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of sealskins, and the veil of the screen;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/EXO.1217/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sealskin» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/judaism/S/sealskin/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.