Curtain

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CURTAIN.—See Tabernacle.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909

kur?t'n, -ten, -tin: The word ordinarily used for curtain is יריעה, yerı̄‛āȟ. Thus in Exo_26:1; Exo_36:8 of the curtains of the tabernacle (see TABERNACLE); in 2Sa_7:2; Psa_104:2; Son_1:5; Isa_54:2; Jer_4:20; Jer_10:20; Jer_49:29; Hab_3:7.
Figurative: In Isa_40:22 (like Psa_104:2, of the heavens), the word used is דּק, dōḳ, literally, ?gauze.?

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.

Curtain
the rendering in the Auth. Vers. of three Hebrew terms.
1. יְרִיעָה, yeriah' (from its tremulous motion, invariably thus translated), the ten “curtains” of fine linen, etc., each twenty-eight cubits long and four wide, and also the eleven of goats' hair, which covered the tabernacle of Moses (Exo_26:1-13; Exo_36:8-17). The charge of these curtains and of the other textile fabrics of the tabernacle was laid on the Gershonites (Num_4:25). Having this definite meaning, the word came to be used as a synonym for the tabernacle — its transitoriness and slightness — and is so employed in the sublime speech of David, 2Sa_7:2 (where “curtains” should be “the curtain”), and 1Ch_17:1. In a few later instances the word bears the more geneial meaning of the sides of a tent, as in the beautiful figure of Isa_54:2 (where “habitations” should be “tabernacles,” מִשְׁכְּנוֹתpoetic word for “tents”); Jer_4:20; Jer_10:20 (here “tabernacle” and “tent” are both one word, אֹהֶל, tent); Psa_104:2 (where “stretch,” נָטִן, is the word usually employed for extending a tent). Also specially of nomadic people, Jer_49:29; Hab_3:7 (of the black hair-cloth of which the tents of the real Bedouin are still composed); but Son_1:5 rather refers to the hangings of the palace. SEE TENT.
2. מָסָךְ, masak, the “hanging” for the doorway of the tabernacle (Exo_26:36-37; Exo_35:15; Exo_36:37; Exo_39:38; xl, 5; Num_3:25; Num_4:25); and also for the gate of the court round the tabernacle (Exo_27:16; Exo_35:17; Exo_38:18; Exo_39:40; xl, 33; Num_3:26; Num_4:26). Among these the rendering “curtain” occurs but once (Num_3:26), while “hanging” is shared equally between masak and a very different word -קְלָעִי, kelai'. SEE HANGING. Besides “curtain” and “hanging,” masak is rendered “covering” in Exo_35:12; Exo_39:34; Exo_40:21; Num_4:5; 2Sa_17:19 : Psa_105:39; Isa_22:8. The idea in the root of masak seems to be of shielding or protecting (מָסִךְ, Gesenius, Thes. Heb. p. 951). If this be so, the object denoted may have been not a curtain or veil, but an awning to shade the entrances — a thing natural and common in the fierce sun of the East (see Fergusson's Nineveh and Persepolis, p. 184). s.v. SEE TABERNACLE. The sacred curtain separating the holy of holies from the sanctuary is designated by an entirely different term, פְּרֹכֶת, pero'keth (Exo_26:31 sq.; Lev_16:2; Num_18:7, etc.). SEE VAIL.
3. דֹּק dok (prop. fineness), fine cloth for a garment, specially a curtain, apparently a tent-covering of superior fineness (Isa_40:22), such as the rich Orientals spread for a screen over their courts in summer (Henderson, in loc.). SEE COURT.

CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.

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