Definition

a cover (in a good or a bad, a literal or a figurative sense)

Etymology

or (feminine) סִתְרָה; (Deuteronomy [32:38), from H5641 (סָתַר);

Where the KJV renders it

• backbiting
• covering
• covert
• disguise(-th)
• hiding place
• privily
• protection
• secret(-ly
• place)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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