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Curtain

Easton's Bible Dictionary

1

Ten curtains, each twenty-eight cubits long and four wide, made of fine linen, also eleven made of goat’s hair, covered the tabernacle (Exod 26:1-13; 36:8-17).

2

The sacred curtain, separating the holy of holies from the sanctuary, is designated by a different Hebrew word (peroketh). It is described as a “veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work” (Exod 26:31; Lev 16:2; Num 18:7).

3

“Stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain” (Isa 40:22), is an expression used with reference to the veil or awning which Orientals spread for a screen over their courts in summer. According to the prophet, the heavens are spread over our heads as such an awning. Similar expressions are found in Ps 104:2l; comp. Isa 44:24; Job 9:8.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

kur'-t'-n, -ten, -tin: The word ordinarily used for curtain is yeri`ah. Thus in Exod 26:1; Exod 36:8 ff of the curtains of the tabernacle (see Tabernacle); in 2 Sam 7:2; Ps 104:2; Song 1:5; Isa 54:2; Jer 4:20; Jer 10:20; Jer 49:29; Hab 3:7.

Figurative: In Isa 40:22 (like Ps 104:2, of the heavens), the word used is doq, literally, "gauze."

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

Hangings

hang'-ingz:

(1) In English Versions of the Bible this word in the plural represents the Hebrew qela`im, the curtains of "fine twined linen" with which the court of the tabernacle was enclosed. These were five cubits in height, and of lengths corresponding to the sides of the enclosure and the space on either side of the entrance in front, and were suspended from hooks fastened to the pillars of the court. They are described at length in Exod 27:9-15; Exod 38:9-18. See, besides, Exod 35:17; Exod 39:40; Num 3:26; Num 4:26.

(2) In the King James Version another word, macakh (the Revised Version (British and American) uniformly "screen"), is distinguished from the preceding only by the singular, "hanging" (Exod 35:17; Exod 38:18, etc.). It is used of the screen or portiere, embroidered in colors, that closed the entrance of the court (Exod 27:16; Exod 35:17; Exod 38:18; Exod 39:40; Exod 40:8; Exod 40:33; Num 3:26; Num 4:26); of the screen of similar workmanship at the entrance of the tabernacle (Exod 26:36; Exod 26:37; Exod 35:15; Exod 36:37; Exod 39:38; Exod 40:5; Exod 40:28; Num 3:25; Num 4:25); and once (Num 3:31) of the tapestry veil, adorned with cherubim, at the entrance of the Holy of Holies (elsewhere, parokheth, "veil," Exod 26:31-33, etc., or parokheth ha-macakh, "veil of the screen," Exod 35:12, etc.). In Num 3:26, the King James Version renders macakh "curtain," and in Exod 35:12; Exod 39:34; Exod 40:21 (compare also Num 4:5), "covering."

(3) In 2 Kgs 23:7 we read of "hangings" (Hebrew "houses") which the women wove for the Asherah. If the text is correct we are to think perhaps of tent shrines for the image of the goddess. Lucian's reading (stolas, "robes") is preferred by some, which would have reference to the custom of bringing offerings of clothing for the images of the gods. In 1 Kgs 7:29 the Revised Version (British and American), "wreaths of hanging work" refers to a kind of ornamentation on the bases of the lavers. In Esth 1:6, "hangings" is supplied by the translators.

Benjamin Reno Downer

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