Topic
Cover; Covering
11 passages cited, from 1 classic reference work.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 8:13ISBE
¶ And it came to pass in the six hundredth and first year, in the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark, and looked, and, behold, the face of the ground was dry.
- Numbers 4:8ISBE
And they shall spread upon them a cloth of scarlet, and cover the same with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put in the staves thereof.
- Numbers 4:9ISBE
And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:
- Numbers 4:11ISBE
And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:
- Numbers 4:12ISBE
And they shall take all the instruments of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put them on a bar:
- Numbers 19:15ISBE
And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.
- 2 Samuel 19:4ISBE
But the king covered his face, and the king cried with a loud voice, O my son Absalom, O Absalom, my son, my son!
- Job 24:7ISBE
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.
- Job 26:6ISBE
Hell is naked before him, and destruction hath no covering.
- Job 31:19ISBE
If I have seen any perish for want of clothing, or any poor without covering;
- Isaiah 25:7ISBE
And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.
In the reference works
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 11 references
kuv'-er, kuv'-er-ing: The translation of several Hebrew words. The covering of the ark (mikhceh, Ge 8:13) was possibly the lid of a hatchway (compare Mitchell, World before Abraham, 215).
To the sons of Kohath was assigned the task of caring for the furniture of the Tabernacle whenever the camp was moved, a suitable covering (kacah) of sealskin being designated for each of the specially sacred objects, the temple curtains also being used (Nu 4:8,9,11,12 ff).
Nu 19:15 (tsamidh) may refer to anything used as a lid or covering; Job 24:7; 31:19 (kecuth) refer to clothing or bed-covering.
Figurative: "Abaddon hath no covering"; (kecuth) from God (Job 26:6); "He will destroy .... the face of the covering (ha-loT) that covereth all peoples" (Isa 25:7). The removal of the veil, often worn as a token of mourning (compare 2Sa 19:4), signified the destruction of death.
W. N. Stearns
Texts: International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.