porechet · veil

What it means

porechet (פֹּרֶכֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “veil”.

The veil: the curtain that separated the most holy place from the rest of the dwelling.

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. The curtain that closed off the Most Holy Place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×15
• Leviticus×7
• Numbers×2
• 2 Chronicles×1

• Exodus 26:31

  You shall make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen; with cherubim, the work of a skilled craftsman, it shall be made.

• Exodus 26:33

  You shall hang the veil under the clasps, and bring there, inside the veil, the ark of the testimony; and the veil shall separate for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place.

• Exodus 26:35

  You shall set the table outside the veil, and the lampstand opposite the table on the south side of the dwelling; and the table you shall put on the north side.

• Exodus 27:21

  In the tent of meeting, outside the veil that is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall set it in order from evening to morning before YHWH. It is a statute forever throughout their generations on the part of the sons of Israel.

• Exodus 30:6

  You shall put it in front of the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, in front of the cover of expiation that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.

• Exodus 35:12

  the ark and its poles, the cover of expiation, and the veil that screens it;

• Exodus 36:35

  And he made the veil of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; the work of a skilled craftsman, he made it with cherubim.

• Exodus 38:27

  And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent per base.

• Exodus 39:34

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

• Exodus 40:3

  And you shall put there the ark of the testimony, and you shall screen the ark with the veil.

• Exodus 40:21

  And he brought the ark into the dwelling, and set up the veil that screens it, and screened the ark of the testimony, as YHWH had commanded Moses.

• Exodus 40:22

  And he put the table in the tent of meeting, on the side of the dwelling northward, outside the veil,

• Exodus 40:26

  And he put the golden altar in the tent of meeting before the veil,

• Leviticus 4:6

  The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of the blood seven times before YHWH, in front of the veil of the Holy Place.

• Leviticus 4:17

  The priest shall dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before YHWH, in front of the veil.

• Leviticus 16:2

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Tell Aaron your brother that he is not to come at any time into the Holy Place inside the veil, in front of the cover of expiation that is on the ark, so that he does not die; for in the cloud I will appear over the cover of expiation.

• Leviticus 16:12

  And he shall take a full censer of coals of fire from the altar before YHWH, and two handfuls of fine fragrant incense, and bring it inside the veil.

• Leviticus 16:15

  Then he shall slaughter the goat of the sin offering that is for the people and bring its blood inside the veil, and do with its blood as he did with the blood of the bull, and sprinkle it on the cover of expiation and in front of the cover of expiation.

• Leviticus 21:23

  only he shall not go to the veil and shall not come near to the altar, for he has a defect, so that he does not profane my sanctuaries; for I am YHWH, who sanctifies them.”

• Leviticus 24:3

  Outside the veil of the testimony, in the tent of meeting, Aaron shall arrange it from evening to morning before YHWH continually; it is a statute forever throughout your generations.

• 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 18:7

  But you and your sons with you shall keep your priesthood in every matter of the altar and of what is inside the veil, and you shall serve. As a service of gift I give your priesthood, and the stranger who comes near shall be put to death.”

• 2 Chronicles 3:14

  He made the veil of blue, purple, crimson, and fine linen, and put on it cherubim.

And 2 more times.