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title: כְּסוּת — covering · The Tanakh dictionary
description: כְּסוּת (3682), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 8 times: covering. BDB 1906: n.f. covering. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# כְּסוּת

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«כְּסוּת» 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:** 8 times · **Key:** 3682 · **BDB:** כְּסוּת

### Glosses

covering (5); \[is\].a.covering (1); a.covering (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

covering [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3682/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.f. covering [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3682/#m2)

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**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).

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «כְּסוּת» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1499/3682/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 50:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.50.3/)

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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.

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[Job 26:6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.26.6/)

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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.

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