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Exodus 38:18
“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.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H4539 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a cover, i.e. veil
- Derivation
- from H5526 (סָכַךְ);
- KJV renderings
- covering, curtain, hanging.
- Grammar
- וּ — conjunction
- מָסַ֞ךְ — common noun, masculine, singular, construct
- Usage
- Occurs 25 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 26:36Exodus 26:37Exodus 27:16Exodus 35:12Exodus 35:15
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מָסָךְ here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.