Strong's #3680: kacah (pronounced kaw-saw')
a primitive root; properly, to plump, i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy):--clad self, close, clothe, conceal, cover (self), (flee to) hide, overwhelm. Compare 3780.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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kâsâh
1) to cover, conceal, hide
1a) (Qal) conceal, covered (participle)
1b) (Niphal) to be covered
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to cover, clothe
1c2) to cover, conceal
1c3) to cover (for protection)
1c4) to cover over, spread over
1c5) to cover, overwhelm
1d) (Pual)
1d1) to be covered
1d2) to be clothed
1e) (Hithpael) to cover oneself, clothe oneself
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 152 times:
Malachi 2:13: "And this have ye done again, covering the altar of the LORD with tears,"
Malachi 2:16: "saith that he hateth putting away: for one covereth violence with his garment, saith"
