kesut · covering

What it means

kesut (כְּסוּת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “covering”.

Garment. "A covering of the eyes": a public compensation that clears someone's name.

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 cloak someone wraps up in against the cold and sleeps in.
2. "a covering for the eyes": a payment that protects someone's honour.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• covering ×7
• clothing ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Job×3
• Isaiah×1

• Genesis 20:16

  And to Sarah he said, “Look, I have given your brother a thousand pieces of silver; look, it is for you a covering for the eyes for all who are with you; and before everyone you are vindicated.”

• Exodus 21:10

  If he takes another wife for himself, he shall not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.

• Exodus 22:27

  for it is his only covering; it is his cloak for his skin. In what shall he sleep? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

• Deuteronomy 22:12

  You shall make cords for yourself on the four edges of your covering with which you cover yourself.

• Job 24:7

  Naked they spend the night without clothing, and they have no covering in the cold.

• Job 26:6

  Naked is Sheol before him, and Abaddon has no covering.

• Job 31:19

  if I saw anyone perishing for lack of clothing, and no covering for the needy,

• Isaiah 50:3

  I clothe the heavens with blackness, and I make sackcloth their covering.”