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title: דֹּק — veil · The Tanakh dictionary
description: דֹּק (1852), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: veil. BDB 1906: veil, curtain. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# דֹּק

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«דֹּק» in the Tanakh dictionary: **veil** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1852 · **BDB:** דֹּק

### Glosses

curtain (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

veil [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1852/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

veil, curtain [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1852/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] veil, curtain (as thin), הַנּוֹטֶה כַּדֹּק שָׁמַיִם Is 40:22 he who spreadeth out, like a veil, the heavens.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «דֹּק» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1491/1852/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 40:22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.40.22/)

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הַיֹּשֵׁב֙ עַל־ח֣וּג הָאָ֔רֶץ וְיֹשְׁבֶ֖יהָ כַּחֲגָבִ֑ים הַנּוֹטֶ֤ה כַדֹּק֙ שָׁמַ֔יִם וַיִּמְתָּחֵ֥ם כָּאֹ֖הֶל לָשָֽׁבֶת׃

*Word for word:* the.\[one who\].sits above the.circle of the.earth and inhabitants its \[are\].like grasshoppers the.\[one who\].stretched.out like (the) curtain \[the\].heavens and he spread.them.out like (the) tent to dwell.in

*JPS 1917:* It is He that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

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