Pôreketh — H6532

Definition

feminine noun

a separatrix, i.e. (the sacred) screen

1. curtain, veil

Usually translated as

vail

Origin

feminine active participle of the same as H6531

• Same as Perek (H6531)

Greek equivalents

• katapétasma (G2665)

Occurrences

Pôreketh occurs 24 times in 22 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (13), Leviticus (7), Numbers (1), 2 Chronicles (1)

• Exodus 26:31 — And thou shalt make a (פָרֹ֗כֶת) vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work: with cherubims shall it be made:
• Exodus 26:33 — And thou shalt hang up the (הַפָּרֹכֶת֮) vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
• Exodus 26:33 — And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the (לַפָּרֹ֔כֶת) vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
• Exodus 26:33 — And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and (הַפָּרֹ֙כֶת֙) the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
• Exodus 26:35 — And thou shalt set the table without the (לַפָּרֹ֔כֶת) vail, and the candlestick over against the table on the side of the tabernacle toward the south: and thou shalt put the table on the north side.
• Exodus 27:21 — In the tabernacle of the congregation without the (לַפָּרֹ֜כֶת) vail, which is before the testimony, Aaron and his sons shall order it from evening to morning before the LORD: it shall be a statute for ever unto their generations on the behalf of the children of Israel.
• Exodus 30:6 — And thou shalt put it before the (הַפָּרֹ֔כֶת) vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.
• Exodus 35:12 — The ark, and the staves thereof, with the mercy seat, and (פָּרֹ֥כֶת) the vail of the covering,
• Exodus 36:35 — And he made a (הַפָּרֹ֔כֶת) vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.
• Exodus 38:27 — And of the hundred talents of silver were cast the sockets of the sanctuary, and the sockets of (הַפָּרֹ֑כֶת) the vail; an hundred sockets of the hundred talents, a talent for a socket.
• Exodus 39:34 — And the covering of rams’ skins dyed red, and the covering of badgers’ skins, and (פָּרֹ֥כֶת) the vail of the covering,
• Exodus 40:3 — And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and cover the ark with the (הַפָּרֹֽכֶת) vail.
• Exodus 40:21 — And he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the (פָּרֹ֣כֶת) vail of the covering, and covered the ark of the testimony; as the LORD commanded Moses.
• Exodus 40:22 — And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the (לַפָּרֹֽכֶת) vail.
• Exodus 40:26 — And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the (הַפָּרֹֽכֶת) vail:
• Leviticus 4:6 — And the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle of the blood seven times before the LORD, before the (פָּרֹ֥כֶת) vail of the sanctuary.
• Leviticus 4:17 — And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the LORD, even before the (הַפָּרֹֽכֶת) vail.
• Leviticus 16:2 — And the LORD said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the (לַפָּרֹ֑כֶת) vail before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.
• Leviticus 16:12 — And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the (לַפָּרֹֽכֶת) vail:
• Leviticus 16:15 — Then shall he kill the goat of the sin offering, that is for the people, and bring his blood within the (לַפָּרֹ֑כֶת) vail, and do with that blood as he did with the blood of the bullock, and sprinkle it upon the mercy seat, and before the mercy seat:
• Leviticus 21:23 — Only he shall not go in unto the (הַפָּרֹ֜כֶת) vail, nor come nigh unto the altar, because he hath a blemish; that he profane not my sanctuaries: for I the LORD do sanctify them.
• Leviticus 24:3 — Without the (לְפָרֹ֨כֶת) vail of the testimony, in the tabernacle of the congregation, shall Aaron order it from the evening unto the morning before the LORD continually: it shall be a statute for ever in your generations.
• Numbers 18:7 — Therefore thou and thy sons with thee shall keep your priest’s office for every thing of the altar, and within the (לַפָּרֹ֖כֶת) vail; and ye shall serve: I have given your priest’s office unto you as a service of gift: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.
• 2 Chronicles 3:14 — And he made the (הַפָּרֹ֔כֶת) vail of blue, and purple, and crimson, and fine linen, and wrought cherubims thereon.