michse · covering

What it means

michse (מִכְסֶה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “covering”.

Roof.

How to say it

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

1. What covers from above: the roof of skins over the tent or the covering of the ark.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×8
• Numbers×7

• Genesis 8:13

  And it happened in the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, that the waters dried up from the earth; and Noah removed the covering of the ark and looked, and look, the face of the ground had dried.

• Exodus 26:14

  You shall make a covering for the tent of rams' skins dyed red, and a covering of fine skins above.

• Exodus 35:11

  the dwelling, its tent and its covering, its clasps and its boards, its bars, its pillars and its bases;

• Exodus 36:19

  And he made a covering for the tent of rams’ skins dyed red, and a covering of fine skins above.

• Exodus 39:34

  and the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of fine skins, and the veil that screens it;

• Exodus 40:19

  And he spread the tent over the dwelling, and put the covering of the tent on it above, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Numbers 3:25

  And the charge of the sons of Gershon in the tent of meeting is the dwelling and the tent, its covering, and the screen for the entrance of the tent of meeting,

• 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 4:10

  And they shall put it and all its utensils into a covering of fine leather, and put it on the carrying frame.

• 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 4:25

  they shall carry the curtains of the dwelling, and the tent of meeting, its covering, and the covering of fine leather that is on top of it, and the screen for the entrance of the tent of meeting,

And 4 more times.