Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
curtain
Usage: curtain, veil
Poreketh means “vail” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H6532 פּוֹרֶכֶת (poreketh) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. poreketh (po-reh'-keth) n-f. 1. a separatrix, i.e. (the sacred) screen [feminine active participle of the same as H6531] It has 23 linked Bible usages across 4 books. Visible English usage signals include vail. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
poreketh (po-reh'-keth) n-f. 1. a separatrix, i.e. (the sacred) screen [feminine active participle of the same as H6531] KJV: vail. Root(s): H6531
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curtain
Usage: curtain, veil
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render poreketh, 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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23 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
First 23 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H6532.
And thou shalt make a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
And thou shalt set the table without the vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
In the tabernacle of the congregation without the vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.
The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and the vail of the covering,
And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
And the covering of rams' skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers' skins, and the vail of the covering,
And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the vail.
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 put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.
And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:
And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the vail of the sanctuary.
And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the vail.
And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:
Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
Only he shall not go in unto the vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
Without the vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
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:
Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest's office for everything of the altar, and within the vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest's office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
And he made the vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H6532, grouped by book.
Poreketh (Strong's H6532) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "vail". poreketh (po-reh'-keth) n-f. 1. a separatrix, i.e. (the sacred) screen [feminine active participle of the same as H6531]
This page currently indexes 23 linked usages for Strong's H6532 across 4 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H6532 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as vail. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.