סָכַךְ

Exodus 25:20 סֹכְכִ֤ים covering

And the cherubim are to have wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim are to face each other, looking toward the mercy seat.

Exodus 33:22 וְשַׂכֹּתִ֥י and I will hold

and when My glory passes by, I will put you in a cleft of the rock and cover you with My hand until I have passed by.

Exodus 37:9 סֹֽכְכִ֤ים covering

And the cherubim had wings that spread upward, overshadowing the mercy seat. The cherubim faced each other, looking toward the mercy seat.

Exodus 40:3 וְסַכֹּתָ֥ and you will cover

Put the ark of the Testimony in it and screen off the ark with the veil.

Exodus 40:21 וַיָּ֕סֶךְ and he covered

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.

Judges 3:24 מֵסִ֥יךְ [is] covering

After Ehud was gone, Eglon’s servants came in and found the doors of the upper room locked. “He must be relieving himself in the cool room,” they said.

1 Samuel 24:3 לְהָסֵ֣ךְ to cover

Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.

1 Kings 8:7 וַיָּסֹ֧כּוּ and they covered

For the cherubim spread their wings over the place of the ark and overshadowed the ark and its poles.

1 Chronicles 28:18 וְסֹכְכִ֖ים and covering

the weight of the refined gold for the altar of incense; and the plans for the chariot of the gold cherubim that spread their wings and overshadowed the ark of the covenant of the LORD.

Job 3:23 וַיָּ֖סֶךְ and he has made inaccessible

Why is life given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?

Job 10:11 תְּסֹכְכֵֽנִי׃ did you weave together? me

You clothed me with skin and flesh, and knit me together with bones and sinews.

Job 38:8 וַיָּ֣סֶךְ and he shut off

Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,

Here: "And [who] fenced in." This is the verb Job used for God's protective hedge (1:10) and later for God hemming him in (3:23, same form, wayyāsek). Here God is the one who fenced in the sea. The verb means closing something in so it cannot get out, not destroying it.

Job 40:22 יְסֻכֻּ֣הוּ they cover it

The lotus plants conceal him in their shade; the willows of the brook surround him.

Psalm 5:11 וְתָסֵ֣ךְ and you may cover

But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them ever shout for joy. May You shelter them, that those who love Your name may rejoice in You.

Here: 'And may you screen over them' (or 'and you screen them'). The word suggests a covering overhead, like a booth roof, the veil that screened the ark, or the cherubim's wings over it. God is pictured as a canopy above his people.

Psalm 91:4 יָ֣סֶךְ he will cover

He will cover you with His feathers; under His wings you will find refuge; His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.

Here: "He will screen/cover": to spread something over another so as to shield it. The same verb describes the cherubim's wings screening the ark (Exod 25:20). The short (jussive) form is common in poetry and here has the force of a confident promise.

Psalm 139:13 תְּ֝סֻכֵּ֗נִי you wove together me

For You formed my inmost being; You knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Here: 'You wove me', meaning interlaced or plaited me together, as in Job 10:11 ('with bones and sinews you wove me'). The verb form is unfinished action, but here it is set alongside the completed verb in the first line, as Hebrew poetry often does. So it most likely describes the past, perhaps as an ongoing process. A related root means 'screen, shelter', which is where the KJV's 'covered' comes from.

Psalm 140:7 סַכֹּ֥תָה you cover

O GOD the Lord, the strength of my salvation, You shield my head in the day of battle.

Here: 'You have screened / covered'. The verb is used for something spread over another thing to shield it, like the cherubs' wings over the ark. The verb form usually points to a completed act ('you have covered'), but in prayers of trust it can state a settled fact ('you shield').

Isaiah 9:11 יְסַכְסֵֽךְ׃ he provoked

The LORD has raised up the foes of Rezin against him and joined his enemies together.

Here: 'He goads on' or 'stirs up'. It is a rare doubled form that suggests repeated prodding. God whips Israel's enemies into action. The older rendering 'join together' comes from a different sense of the same root, 'to weave'.

Isaiah 19:2 וְסִכְסַכְתִּ֤י and I will provoke

“So I will incite Egyptian against Egyptian; brother will fight against brother, neighbor against neighbor, city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

Here: God speaks in the first person: "and I will stir up / set at odds." The doubled sound (sikh-sakh) is a rare intensive form found only here and in Isa 9:11; it pictures prodding people into conflict, and its later Hebrew use means "to entangle, set at variance."

Lamentations 3:43 סַכֹּ֤תָה you have covered yourself

You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.

Lamentations 3:44 סַכּ֤וֹתָה you have covered

You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.

Ezekiel 28:14 הַסּוֹכֵ֑ךְ <the> [one which] covers

You were anointed as a guardian cherub, for I had ordained you. You were on the holy mountain of God; you walked among the fiery stones.

Here: "The one who screens." This is the verb used for the cherubim whose wings shelter the ark's cover (Exod 25:20; 1 Kgs 8:7). It describes a protective guard over sacred space, which is why some versions say "guardian".

Ezekiel 28:16 הַסֹּכֵ֔ךְ <the> [one which] covers

By the vastness of your trade, you were filled with violence, and you sinned. So I drove you in disgrace from the mountain of God, and I banished you, O guardian cherub, from among the fiery stones.

Here: "The one who covers/shields." This is the verb used for the cherubim spreading their wings over the ark (Exodus 25:20). It pictures a guardian sheltering holy space.

Nahum 2:5 הַסֹּכֵֽךְ׃ the cover

He summons his nobles; they stumble as they advance. They race to its wall; the protective shield is set in place.

Here: 'The covering': a protective screen. This is most likely the mantelet, the movable roofed shield under which attackers worked at a city wall, though some take it as a defensive barrier on the wall. The word appears only here.