sachach · cover, shelter

What it means

sachach (סָכַךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cover, shelter”.

Cover to protect, screen; shelter.

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. To shelter, as God his own.
2. To hedge around.
3. To knit the body in the womb.
4. To relieve oneself.
5. To set some against others.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cover ×6
• covering ×3
• You have covered yourself ×2
• covered ×2
• who covers ×2
• you wove me ×2
• I will stir up ×1
• has put a hedge ×1
• he stirred up ×1
• overshadowing ×1
• others ×3

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×5
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×4
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×2
• Lamentations×2
• Ezekiel×2
• Nahum×1

• Exodus 25:20

  The cherubim shall spread out their wings upward, overshadowing with their wings the cover of expiation, and their faces shall be one toward the other; toward the cover of expiation the faces of the cherubim shall be turned.

• Exodus 33:22

  And it will be, when my glory passes by, that I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with my hand until I have passed by.

• Exodus 37:9

  And the cherubim were spreading out their wings upward, covering with their wings over the cover of expiation, and their faces were each toward the other; toward the cover of expiation were the faces of the cherubim.

• 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.

• Judges 3:24

  When he had gone out, his servants came and looked, and there the doors of the upper room were locked. They said, “Surely he is covering his feet in the room of coolness.”

• 1 Samuel 24:3

  He came to the sheepfolds by the road, and there was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet. Now David and his men were sitting in the innermost parts of the cave.

• 1 Kings 8:7

  For the cherubim were spreading their wings over the place of the ark, and the cherubim covered over the ark and over its poles from above.

• 1 Chronicles 28:18

  and for the altar of incense, refined gold by weight; and for the pattern of the chariot, the cherubim of gold that spread out and cover over the ark of the covenant of YHWH.

• Job 3:23

  to the man whose way is hidden, and around whom Eloah has put a hedge?

• Job 10:11

  With skin and flesh you clothed me, and with bones and sinews you wove me together.

• Job 38:8

  And who shut in the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out from the womb,

• Job 40:22

  The lotus plants cover it for its shade; the willows of the stream surround it.

• Psalms 5:11

  But let all who take refuge in you be glad; forever let them shout for joy, and may you cover them; and let those who love your name exult in you.

• Psalms 91:4

  With his feathers he will cover you, and under his wings you will take refuge; a large shield and buckler is his truth.

• Psalms 139:13

  For you created my kidneys; you wove me in the womb of my mother.

• Psalms 140:7

  YHWH Adonai, strength of my salvation, you have covered my head on the day of weapons.

• Isaiah 9:11

  So YHWH raised high the adversaries of Rezin against him, and his enemies he stirred up:

• Isaiah 19:2

  And I will stir up Egypt against Egypt, and they will fight, each against his brother and each against his neighbor, city against city, kingdom against kingdom.

• Lamentations 3:43

  You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have killed, you have not pitied.

• Lamentations 3:44

  You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer passes through.

• Ezekiel 28:14

  You were a cherub, extended, the one who covers, and I set you; on the holy mountain of Elohim you were; in the midst of the stones of fire you walked.

• Ezekiel 28:16

  By the abundance of your trade your midst was filled with violence, and you sinned; and I profaned you from the mountain of Elohim, and I made you perish, cherub who covers, from the midst of the stones of fire.

• Nahum 2:5

  He remembers his nobles; they stumble in their march; they hurry to her wall, and the covering shield is set up.