Hebrew noun (feminine) · H6532
פֹּרֶכֶת
porekethpo-reh'-keth
curtain
25 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pôreketh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6532is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6532
a separatrix, i.e. (the sacred) screen
The King James renders it: vail.
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
poreketh is rendered "curtain". It stands 25 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Fifteen of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 26:31Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
Exodus 26:31פָרֹ֗כֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Fifteen of the word's twenty-five uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the curtain10
- curtain of5
- to the curtain5
- of the curtain3
- a curtain1
- of curtain of1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 25, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 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
- הַפָּרֹ֔כֶת3
- הַפָּרֹֽכֶת׃3
- פָּרֹ֥כֶת3
- לַפָּרֹ֔כֶת2
- לַפָּרֹ֑כֶת2
- לַפָּרֹֽכֶת׃2
- פָּרֹ֣כֶת2
- הַפָּרֹכֶת֮1
- הַפָּרֹ֙כֶת֙1
- הַפָּרֹ֑כֶת1
- הַפָּרֹ֜כֶת1
- לְפָרֹ֨כֶת1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular10HTd/Ncfsa
- preposition with the article + noun · feminine singular8HRd/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)5HNcfsc
- noun · feminine singular1HNcfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfsc
Exodus
fifteen uses
Make a veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
- פָרֹ֗כֶתfarokhetnoun · feminine singulartagged: a curtain
And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
- הַפָּרֹכֶת֮haparokhetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curtain
- לַפָּרֹ֔כֶתlaparokhetpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the curtain
- הַפָּרֹ֙כֶת֙haparokhetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curtain
And place the table outside the veil on the north side of the tabernacle, and put the lampstand opposite the table, on the south side.
- לַפָּרֹ֔כֶתlaparokhetpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: of the curtain
In the Tent of Meeting, outside the veil that is in front of the Testimony, Aaron and his sons are to tend the lamps before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the Israelites for the generations to come.
- לַפָּרֹ֜כֶתlaparokhetpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: of the curtain
Place the altar in front of the veil that is before the ark of the Testimony—before the mercy seat that is over the Testimony—where I will meet with you.
- הַפָּרֹ֔כֶתhaparokhetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curtain
the ark with its poles and mercy seat, and the veil to shield it;
- פָּרֹ֥כֶתparokhetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: curtain of
Next, he made the veil of blue, purple, and scarlet yarn, and finely spun linen, with cherubim skillfully worked into it.
- הַפָּרֹ֔כֶתhaparokhetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curtain
The hundred talents of silver were used to cast the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil—100 bases from the 100 talents, one talent per base.
- הַפָּרֹ֑כֶתhaparokhetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curtain
the covering of ram skins dyed red, the covering of fine leather, and the veil of the covering;
- פָּרֹ֥כֶתparokhetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: curtain of
Put the ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil.
- הַפָּרֹֽכֶת׃haparokhetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curtain
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.
- פָּרֹ֣כֶתparokhetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: curtain of
Moses placed the table in the Tent of Meeting on the north side of the tabernacle, outside the veil.
- לַפָּרֹֽכֶת׃laparokhetpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: of the curtain
Moses placed the gold altar in the Tent of Meeting, in front of the veil,
- הַפָּרֹֽכֶת׃haparokhetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curtain
Leviticus
seven uses
The priest is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle some of it seven times before the LORD, in front of the veil of the sanctuary.
- פָּרֹ֥כֶתparokhetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: curtain of
and he is to dip his finger in the blood and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD in front of the veil.
- הַפָּרֹֽכֶת׃haparokhetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curtain
And the LORD said to Moses: “Tell your brother Aaron not to enter freely into the Most Holy Place behind the veil in front of the mercy seat on the ark, or else he will die, because I appear in the cloud above the mercy seat.
- לַפָּרֹ֑כֶתlaparokhetpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the curtain
Then he must take a censer full of burning coals from the altar before the LORD, and two handfuls of finely ground fragrant incense, and take them inside the veil.
- לַפָּרֹֽכֶת׃laparokhetpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the curtain
Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.
- לַפָּרֹ֑כֶתlaparokhetpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the curtain
but because he has a defect, he must not go near the veil or approach the altar, so as not to desecrate My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”
- הַפָּרֹ֜כֶתhaparokhetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curtain
Outside the veil of the Testimony in the Tent of Meeting, Aaron is to tend the lamps continually before the LORD from evening until morning. This is to be a permanent statute for the generations to come.
- לְפָרֹ֨כֶתlefarokhetpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: of curtain of
Numbers
two uses
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.
- פָּרֹ֣כֶתparokhetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: curtain of
But only you and your sons shall attend to your priesthood for everything concerning the altar and what is inside the veil, and you are to perform that service. I am giving you the work of the priesthood as a gift, but any outsider who comes near the sanctuary must be put to death.”
- לַפָּרֹ֖כֶתlaparokhetpreposition with the article + noun · feminine singulartagged: to the curtain
2 Chronicles
one use
He made the veil of blue, purple, and crimson yarn and fine linen, with cherubim woven into it.
- הַפָּרֹ֔כֶתhaparokhetthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the curtain
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.