Properly, to plump , i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy) · the sky (as aloft ; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
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כָּסָה · שָׁמַיִם is a Hebrew phrase meaning "properly, to plump , i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy) + the sky (as aloft ; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)".
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e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy) + the sky (as aloft ; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)".
H3680, H8064 is connected to 574 lexical occurrence verses in the lexicon data.
Hebrew phrase. properly, to plump , i.e. fill up hollows; by implication, to cover (for clothing or secrecy) + the sky (as aloft ; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)
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הַמְכַסֶּה שָׁמַיִם is a primitive root - no further derivation.