Skip to content
mannafest.faith

Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4539

מָסָךְ

masakmaw-sawk'

covering

25 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: mâçâk

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4539is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 5 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 17
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4539

a cover, i.e. veil

The King James renders it: covering, curtain, hanging.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

masak is rendered "covering". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.

  • Sixteen of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 26:36For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.
  • The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.

The first use

For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.

Exodus 26:36מָסָךְ֙

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Sixteen of the word's twenty-five uses are in Exodus.

The other 34 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • screen of10
  • the screen5
  • a screen3
  • and screen of2
  • and the screen1
  • covering of1
  • for the screen1
  • the covering1
  • to a covering1

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

מָסָהmasahto liquefyUses4

The words it stands beside

All 25, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

17 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • מָסַ֖ךְ4
  • מָסַ֥ךְ3
  • הַמָּסָךְ֙2
  • הַמָּסָֽךְ׃2
  • מָסָךְ֙2
  • הַמָּסָ֔ךְ1
  • הַמָּסָ֑ךְ1
  • וְהַ֨מָּסָ֔ךְ1
  • וּמָסַ֞ךְ1
  • וּמָסַ֕ךְ1
  • לְמָסָ֑ךְ1
  • לַמָּסָ֗ךְ1

and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)11HNcmsc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular6HTd/Ncmsa
  • noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HC/Ncmsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Td/Ncmsa
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa

Exodus

sixteen uses
  • For the entrance to the tent, you are to make a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen.

    Exodus 26:36

    • מָסָךְ֙masokhnoun · masculine singulartagged: a screen
  • Make five posts of acacia wood for the curtain, overlay them with gold hooks, and cast five bronze bases for them.

    Exodus 26:37

    • לַמָּסָ֗ךְlamasakhpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: for the screen
  • The gate of the courtyard shall be twenty cubits long, with a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It shall have four posts and four bases.

    Exodus 27:16

    • מָסָ֣ךְ׀masakhnoun · masculine singulartagged: a screen
  • the ark with its poles and mercy seat, and the veil to shield it;

    Exodus 35:12

    • הַמָּסָֽךְ׃hamasakhthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the screen
  • the altar of incense with its poles; the anointing oil and fragrant incense; the curtain for the doorway at the entrance to the tabernacle;

    Exodus 35:15

    • מָסַ֥ךְmasakhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: screen of
  • the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases, and the curtain for the gate of the courtyard;

    Exodus 35:17

    • מָסַ֖ךְmasakhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: screen of
  • For the entrance to the tent, he made a curtain embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen,

    Exodus 36:37

    • מָסָךְ֙masokhnoun · masculine singulartagged: a screen
  • The curtain for the entrance to the courtyard was embroidered with blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen. It was twenty cubits long and, like the curtains of the courtyard, five cubits high,

    Exodus 38:18

    • וּמָסַ֞ךְumasakhconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and screen of
  • the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of fine leather, and the veil of the covering;

    Exodus 39:34

    • הַמָּסָֽךְ׃hamasakhthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the screen
  • the gold altar, the anointing oil, the fragrant incense, and the curtain for the entrance to the tent;

    Exodus 39:38

    • מָסַ֖ךְmasakhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: screen of
  • the curtains of the courtyard with its posts and bases; the curtain for the gate of the courtyard, its ropes and tent pegs, and all the equipment for the service of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting;

    Exodus 39:40

    • הַמָּסָךְ֙hamasokhthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the screen
  • Place the gold altar of incense in front of the ark of the Testimony, and hang the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

    Exodus 40:5

    • מָסַ֥ךְmasakhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: screen of
  • Set up the surrounding courtyard and hang the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard.

    Exodus 40:8

    • מָסַ֖ךְmasakhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: screen of
  • Then he brought the ark into the tabernacle, put up the veil for the screen, and shielded off the ark of the Testimony, just as the LORD had commanded him.

    Exodus 40:21

    • הַמָּסָ֔ךְhamasakhthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the screen
  • Then he put up the curtain at the entrance to the tabernacle.

    Exodus 40:28

    • מָסַ֥ךְmasakhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: screen of
  • And Moses set up the courtyard around the tabernacle and the altar, and he hung the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard. So Moses finished the work.

    Exodus 40:33

    • מָסַ֖ךְmasakhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: screen of

Numbers

six uses
  • The duties of the Gershonites at the Tent of Meeting were the tabernacle and tent, its covering, the curtain for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,

    Numbers 3:25

    • וּמָסַ֕ךְumasakhconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and screen of
  • the curtains of the courtyard, the curtain for the entrance to the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and altar, and the cords—all the service for these items.

    Numbers 3:26

    • מָסַךְ֙masakhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: screen of
  • Their duties were the ark, the table, the lampstand, the altars, the articles of the sanctuary used with them, and the curtain—all the service for these items.

    Numbers 3:31

    • וְהַ֨מָּסָ֔ךְvehamasakhconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and the screen
  • Whenever the camp sets out, Aaron and his sons are to go in, take down the veil of the curtain, and cover the ark of the Testimony with it.

    Numbers 4:5

    • הַמָּסָ֑ךְhamasakhthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the screen
  • They are to carry the curtains of the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting with the covering of fine leather over it, the curtains for the entrance to the Tent of Meeting,

    Numbers 4:25

    • מָסַ֔ךְmasakhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: screen of
  • the curtains of the courtyard, and the curtains for the entrance at the gate of the courtyard that surrounds the tabernacle and altar, along with their ropes and all the equipment for their service. The Gershonites will do all that needs to be done with these items.

    Numbers 4:26

    • מָסַ֣ךְ׀masakhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: screen of

2 Samuel

one use
  • Then the man’s wife took a covering and spread it over the mouth of the well, scattering grain over it so nobody would know a thing.

    2 Samuel 17:19

    • הַמָּסָךְ֙hamasokhthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the covering

Psalms

one use
  • He spread a cloud as a covering and a fire to light up the night.

    Psalms 105:39

    • לְמָסָ֑ךְlemasakhpreposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to a covering

Isaiah

one use
  • He has uncovered the defenses of Judah. On that day you looked to the weapons in the House of the Forest.

    Isaiah 22:8

    • מָסַ֣ךְmasakhnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: covering of

The letters

Gematria 120· 600 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

Revised 2026-09-05. Every cited work, the sources registry →