מְסֻכָֿה
covering
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4540 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezekiel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
מסכה (mᵉçukkâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “covering.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 1 verse. It clusters heavily in Ezekiel, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Scripture uses it exactly once, at Ezekiel 28:13. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4540 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezekiel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Was thy covering 1×
- American Standard Version: Was your covering 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Adorned you 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Covered you 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4540 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4540 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4540 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4540 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- covering
Word origin
[ מְסֻכָֿה ] n.f. that with which one is covered, covering;—sf. Ez 28:13
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a covering, i.e. garniture
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מַסֵּכָה I
- molten image. Snh. 103ᵇ (play on Is. XXVIII, 20 והמסכה וכ׳) כונס כנד מי הים תֵּעָשֶה לו מ׳ צרה should a molten image be made a rival to him ‘who gathers the waters of the sea together like heaps’?; Num. R. s. 7; Yoma 9ᵇ. Sifra K’dosh., beg. (idols are called) מ׳ ע"ש שהם ניסוכים massekhah, because they are cast. e.g. Isaiah 28:20
מַסֵּכָה II
- web, garment. Ex. R. s. 42, end (ref. to Ex. XXXII, 8) מ׳ רעה הֵסַכְתֶּן לדורות משתי וכ׳ a bad web have you woven for future generations (follows the Chaldaic translation).—V. מַסֶּכֶת. e.g. Exodus 32:8
*מַסֵּכָה III
- (homiletic play, = מַסֵּי כָה, v. אֲסִי) thus healing. Ex. R. s. 42, end [read:] לשון סורסי הוא … כך אני מרפא אותן וכ׳ (v. סוּרְסִי) it is a contraction; the Lord says, ‘Shall I thus cure them?’, as we read (Ex. XXXII, 8—9): ‘They have made themselves a molten calf’ … ‘and the Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiffnecked people’ (i.e. it is incurable). e.g. Exodus 32:8
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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