masach · screen

What it means

masach (מָסָךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “screen”.

A hanging that covers an entrance, such as those of the dwelling and its courtyard; also any covering.

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 hung at the entrance of a place, above all of the tent of meeting.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• screen ×18
• covering ×3
• screens it ×3
• screens ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×16
• Numbers×6
• 2 Samuel×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1

• Exodus 26:36

  You shall make a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer.

• Exodus 26:37

  You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast for them five bases of bronze.

• Exodus 27:16

  For the gate of the courtyard there shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn and fine twisted linen, the work of an embroiderer, their pillars four and their bases four.

• Exodus 35:12

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

• Exodus 35:15

  and the altar of incense and its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen of the entrance for the entrance of the dwelling;

• Exodus 35:17

  the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars and its bases, and the screen of the gate of the courtyard;

• Exodus 36:37

  And he made a screen for the entrance of the tent, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen, the work of an embroiderer,

• Exodus 38:18

  And the screen of the gate of the courtyard was the work of an embroiderer, of blue and purple and scarlet and twisted fine linen; and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in width five cubits, corresponding to the hangings of the courtyard.

• Exodus 39:34

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

• Exodus 39:38

  and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the fragrant incense, and the screen of the entrance of the tent;

• Exodus 39:40

  the hangings of the courtyard, its pillars and its bases, and the screen for the gate of the courtyard, its cords and its pegs, and all the utensils for the service of the dwelling, for the tent of meeting;

• Exodus 40:5

  And you shall put the golden altar for incense before the ark of the testimony, and you shall put the screen of the entrance for the dwelling.

• Exodus 40:8

  And you shall set up the courtyard all around, and you shall put the screen of the gate of the courtyard.

• 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 40:28

  And he put the screen of the entrance for the dwelling.

• Exodus 40:33

  And he set up the courtyard all around the dwelling and the altar, and put the screen of the gate of the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

• 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 3:26

  and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the entrance of the court which is around the dwelling and the altar, and its cords, for all its service.

• Numbers 3:31

  And their charge is the ark, and the table, and the lampstand, and the altars, and the utensils of the Holy Place with which they minister, and the screen, and all its service.

• 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 4:25

  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,

• Numbers 4:26

  and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the entrance of the gate of the court which is around the dwelling and the altar, and their cords, and all the utensils for their service; and all that is to be done with them, they shall do.

• 2 Samuel 17:19

  The woman took and spread the covering over the mouth of the well and scattered grain on it, and nothing was known.

• Psalms 105:39

  He spread out a cloud as a covering, and fire to give light at night.

• Isaiah 22:8

  And he removed the covering of Judah, and you looked on that day to the armory of the House of the Forest.