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Strong's #5526: cakak (pronounced saw-kak')

or sakak (Exod. 33:22) {saw-kak'}; a primitive root; properly, to entwine as a screen; by implication, to fence in, cover over, (figuratively) protect:--cover, defence, defend, hedge in, join together, set, shut up.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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sâkak / śâkak

1) (Qal) to hedge, fence about, shut in

2) to block, overshadow, screen, stop the approach, shut off, cover

2a) (Qal)

2a1) to screen, cover

2a2) to cover oneself

2a3) protector (participle)

2b) (Hiphil)

2b1) to screen, cover

2b2) to cover, defecate (euphemism)

3) (Qal) to cover, lay over

4) to weave together

4a) (Qal) to weave together

4b) (Pilpel) to weave, weave together

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Same Word by TWOT Number: 1475, 1492, 2259, 2260



Usage:

This word is used 23 times:

Exodus 25:20: "stretch forth their wings on high, covering the mercy seat with their wings, and their faces"
Exodus 33:22: "that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with my hand while I pass by:"
Exodus 37:9: "spread out their wings on high, and covered with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces"
Exodus 40:3: "the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the veil."
Exodus 40:21: "the veil of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as"
Judges 3:24: "they said, Surely he covereth his feet in his summer chamber."
1 Samuel 24:3: "where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David"
1 Kings 8:7: "the place of the ark, and the cherubims covered the ark and the staves thereof above."
1 Chronicles 28:18: "of the chariot of the cherubims, that spread out their wings, and covered the ark of the covenant of the LORD."
Job 3:23: "is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?"
Job 38:8: " Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?"
Job 40:22: "The shady trees cover him with their shadow; the willows of the brook compass him about."
Psalms 5:11: "in thee rejoice: let them ever shout for joy, because thou defendest them: let them also that love thy name be joyful"
Psalms 91:4: " He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler."
Psalms 139:13: "thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb."
Psalms 140:7: "the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle."
Isaiah 9:11: "the adversaries of Rezin against him, and join his enemies together;"
Isaiah 19:2: " And I will set the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor;"
Lamentations 3:43: " Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied."
Lamentations 3:44: " Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through."
Ezekiel 28:14: "Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain"
Ezekiel 28:16: "out of the mountain of God: and I will destroy thee, O covering cherub, from the midst"
Nahum 2:5: "in their walk; they shall make haste to the wall thereof, and the defense shall be prepared."









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