Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
covering
Usage: 1) covering, rag, screen 1a) covering 1b) screen (of the tabernacle)
Macak means “cover” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G4539 — salome in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H4539 מָסָך (macak) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. macak (maw-sawk') n-m. 1. a cover, i.e. veil [from H5526] It has 25 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include hanging, covering, curtain, and cover. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
macak (maw-sawk') n-m. 1. a cover, i.e. veil [from H5526] KJV: covering, curtain, hanging. Root(s): H5526
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covering
Usage: 1) covering, rag, screen 1a) covering 1b) screen (of the tabernacle)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render macak, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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25 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
First 25 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H4539.
And thou shalt make an hanging for the door of the tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework.
And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
And for the gate of the court shall be an hanging of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, wrought with needlework: and their pillars shall be four, and their sockets four.
The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
And the incense altar, and his staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the door at the entering in of the tabernacle,
The hangings of the court, his pillars, and their sockets, and the hanging for the door of the court,
And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework;
And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.
And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering,
And the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the hanging for the tabernacle door,
The hangings of the court, his pillars, and his sockets, and the hanging for the court gate, his cords, and his pins, and all the vessels of the service of the tabernacle, for the tent of the congregation,
And thou shalt set the altar of gold for the incense before the ark of the testimony, and put the hanging of the door to the tabernacle.
And thou shalt set up the court round about, and hang up the hanging at the court gate.
And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.
And he set up the hanging at the door of the tabernacle.
And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the hanging of the court gate. So Moses finished the work.
And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tabernacle of the congregation shall be the tabernacle, and the tent, the covering thereof, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
And the hangings of the court, and the curtain for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and by the altar round about, and the cords of it for all the service thereof.
And their charge shall be the ark, and the table, and the candlestick, and the altars, and the vessels of the sanctuary wherewith they minister, and the hanging, and all the service thereof.
And when the camp setteth forward, Aaron shall come, and his sons, and they shall take down the covering vail, and cover the ark of testimony with it:
And they shall bear the curtains of the tabernacle, and the tabernacle of the congregation, his covering, and the covering of the badgers' skins that is above upon it, and the hanging for the door of the tabernacle of the congregation,
And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve.
And the woman took and spread a covering over the well's mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.
He spread a cloud for a covering; and fire to give light in the night.
And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H4539, grouped by book.
Macak (Strong's H4539) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "cover". macak (maw-sawk') n-m. 1. a cover, i.e. veil [from H5526]
This page currently indexes 25 linked usages for Strong's H4539 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H4539 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as hanging, covering, curtain, and cover. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.