כָּסָה
kasa · cover
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3680 · appears 152 times in the Bible
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Strong’s number identifies this word: use it to find the same word in other study tools.What it means
kasa (כָּסָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cover”.
Hide; also cover over (sin), conceal.
How to say it
ka·sa
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- To put something over a thing so that it can no longer be seen.
- To keep something secret, or forgive a wrong.
- To put a garment on to cover the body.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
To cover, to cover over; to hide. BDB notes that one covers also for clothing.
- The waters cover the earth or the enemy Genesis 7:19Exodus 14:28
- The cloud covers the tent of meeting Exodus 40:34
- Covering a wrong: forgiving it or keeping it quiet Psalms 32:1Proverbs 10:12Proverbs 17:9
- “As the waters cover the sea” Isaiah 11:9Habakkuk 2:14
- Covering oneself with a veil Genesis 38:14
How we translate it
Forms of “cover”: “covered” 61, “cover” 52, “covers” 28, “covering” 4; “conceals” 3. “Cover” is kept also when a wrong is meant (“whose sin is covered”, Psalm 32:1), because the text uses the image.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- covered ×61
- cover ×52
- covers ×28
- covering ×4
- conceals ×3
- I hide ×2
- closed ×1
- shield ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×8
- Exodus×15
- Leviticus×9
- Numbers×12
- Deuteronomy×3
- Joshua×1
- Judges×2
- 1 Samuel×1
- 1 Kings×5
- 2 Kings×2
- 1 Chronicles×1
- 2 Chronicles×3
- Nehemiah×1
- Job×11
- Psalms×17
- Proverbs×11
- Ecclesiastes×1
- Isaiah×12
- Jeremiah×4
- Ezekiel×22
- Hosea×2
- Obadiah×1
- Jonah×2
- Micah×1
- Habakkuk×3
- Malachi×2
- Genesis 7:19
And the waters prevailed very, very much on the earth, and all the high mountains that are under all the heavens were covered.
- Genesis 7:20
Fifteen cubits upward the waters prevailed, and the mountains were covered.
- Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took the cloak and laid it on the shoulders of both of them, and they walked backward and covered the nakedness of their father; and their faces were turned backward, and the nakedness of their father they did not see.
- Genesis 18:17
YHWH said, “Shall I hide from Abraham what I am doing,
- Genesis 24:65
She said to the servant, “Who is that man walking in the field to meet us?” The servant said, “He is my lord.” So she took the veil and covered herself.
- Genesis 37:26
Judah said to his brothers, “What profit is there if we kill our brother and cover up his blood?
- Genesis 38:14
She removed her widow’s garments from her, covered herself with a veil, wrapped herself, and sat at the entrance of Enaim, which is on the road to Timnah; for she saw that Shelah had grown up, and she had not been given to him as a wife.
- Genesis 38:15
Judah saw her and thought her to be a prostitute, for she had covered her face.
- Exodus 8:6
So Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, and the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 10:5
They will cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land; and they will eat what is left of what escaped, what remains to you from the hail, and they will eat every tree that grows for you in the field.
- Exodus 10:15
They covered the surface of all the land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and nothing green remained, neither on the trees nor in the plants of the field, in all the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 14:28
The waters returned and covered the chariots and the horsemen, all the army of Pharaoh that had gone after them into the sea; not even one of them remained.
- Exodus 15:5
The deeps covered them; they went down into the depths like a stone.
- Exodus 15:10
You blew with your wind; the sea covered them; they sank like lead in the mighty waters.
- Exodus 16:13
In the evening quail came up and covered the camp; and in the morning there was a layer of dew around the camp.
- Exodus 21:33
When a man opens a pit, or when a man digs a pit and does not cover it, and an ox or a donkey falls into it,
- Exodus 24:15
Moses went up to the mountain, and the cloud covered the mountain.
- Exodus 24:16
The glory of YHWH dwelt on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it six days; and on the seventh day he called to Moses from the midst of the cloud.
- Exodus 26:13
And the cubit on this side and the cubit on that side, of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the dwelling on this side and on that side to cover it.
- Exodus 28:42
Make for them linen undergarments to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the hips to the thighs they shall reach.
- Exodus 29:13
You shall take all the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe on the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and offer them up in smoke on the altar.
- Exodus 29:22
You shall take from the ram the fat and the fat tail, and the fat that covers the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and the two kidneys with the fat that is on them, and the right thigh, for it is a ram of ordination,
- Exodus 40:34
Then the cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of YHWH filled the dwelling.
- Leviticus 3:3
From the sacrifice of peace he shall present as a fire offering to YHWH the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,
- Leviticus 3:9
From the sacrifice of peace he shall present as a fire offering to YHWH its fat: the whole fat tail, which he shall remove close to the backbone, and the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,
- Leviticus 3:14
From it he shall present his offering, a fire offering to YHWH: the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,
- Leviticus 4:8
All the fat of the bull of the sin offering he shall take off from it: the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that is on the entrails,
- Leviticus 7:3
All its fat he shall present from it: the fat tail and the fat that covers the entrails,
- Leviticus 13:12
And if the leprosy breaks out widely in the skin, and the leprosy covers all the skin of the one with the sore from his head to his feet, as far as the priest’s eyes can see,
- Leviticus 13:13
the priest shall examine him, and if the leprosy has covered all his body, he shall declare clean the one with the sore; it has all turned white; he is clean.
- Leviticus 16:13
And he shall put the incense on the fire before YHWH, and the cloud of the incense shall cover the cover of expiation that is over the testimony, so that he does not die.
- Leviticus 17:13
And any man of the sons of Israel or of the resident aliens who reside among them, who hunts game, an animal or a bird that may be eaten, shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust.
- Numbers 4:5
When the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons shall go in and take down the veil that screens, and cover with it the ark of the testimony.
- Numbers 4:8
And they shall spread over them a cloth of scarlet, and cover it with a covering of fine leather, and put in its poles.
- Numbers 4:9
And they shall take a cloth of blue and cover the lampstand for the light, and its lamps, and its snuffers, and its trays, and all its vessels for oil with which they minister to it.
- Numbers 4:11
And over the altar of gold they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of fine leather, and put in its poles.
- Numbers 4:12
And they shall take all the utensils of ministry with which they minister in the Holy Place, and put them into a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of fine leather, and put them on the carrying frame.
- Numbers 4:15
And when Aaron and his sons have finished covering the Holy Place and all the utensils of the Holy Place, as the camp sets out, after that the sons of Kohath shall come to carry them; but they shall not touch the holy things, or they will die. These are the load of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.
- Numbers 9:15
And on the day the dwelling was set up, the cloud covered the dwelling, the tent of the testimony; and in the evening there was over the dwelling something like the appearance of fire until morning.
- Numbers 9:16
So it was continually: the cloud covered it, and the appearance of fire by night.
And 112 more times.