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title: כָּסוּי — covering · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כָּסוּי (3681), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: covering. BDB 1906: covering. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כָּסוּי

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«כָּסוּי» in the Tanakh dictionary: **covering** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 3681 · **BDB:** כָּסוּי

### Glosses

a.covering (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

covering [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3681/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

covering [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3681/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] covering, only cstr. כְּסוּי עוֹר covering of skins Nu 4:6, 14 (P).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כָּסוּי» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3681/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 4:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.6/)

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וְנָתְנ֣וּ עָלָ֗יו כְּסוּי֙ ע֣וֹר תַּ֔חַשׁ וּפָרְשׂ֧וּ בֶֽגֶד־כְּלִ֛יל תְּכֵ֖לֶת מִלְמָ֑עְלָה וְשָׂמ֖וּ בַּדָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.put over it a.covering of.skin of.dolphin and they.will.spread.out a.covering of.an.entirety of.violet.stuff from to above and they.will.put.in poles its

*JPS 1917:* and shall put thereon a covering of sealskin, and shall spread over it a cloth all of blue, and shall set the staves thereof.

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[Numbers 4:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.4.14/)

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וְנָתְנ֣וּ עָ֠לָיו אֶֽת־כָּל־כֵּלָ֞יו אֲשֶׁ֣ר יְֽשָׁרְת֧וּ עָלָ֣יו בָּהֶ֗ם אֶת־הַמַּחְתֹּ֤ת אֶת־הַמִּזְלָגֹת֙ וְאֶת־הַיָּעִ֣ים וְאֶת־הַמִּזְרָקֹ֔ת כֹּ֖ל כְּלֵ֣י הַמִּזְבֵּ֑חַ וּפָרְשׂ֣וּ עָלָ֗יו כְּס֛וּי ע֥וֹר תַּ֖חַשׁ וְשָׂמ֥וּ בַדָּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and they.will.put on it (et) all articles its which they.will.serve at it by them (et) the fire-pans (et) the forks and (et) the shovels and (et) the bowls all the.articles of the.altar and they.will.spread.out over it a.covering of.skin of.dolphin and they.will.put.in poles its

*JPS 1917:* And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, the fire-pans, the flesh-hooks, and the shovels, and the basins, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of sealskin, and set the staves thereof.

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