'Covered' in the Bible

Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the surface of the watery depths, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.

Noah was 600 years old when the flood came and water covered the earth.

Then the waters surged even higher on the earth, and all the high mountains under the whole sky were covered.

The mountains were covered as the waters surged above them more than 20 feet.

but the dove found no resting place for her foot. She returned to him in the ark because water covered the surface of the whole earth. He reached out and brought her into the ark to himself.

In the six hundred and first year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the water that had covered the earth was dried up. Then Noah removed the ark’s cover and saw that the surface of the ground was drying.

Then Shem and Japheth took a cloak and placed it over both their shoulders, and walking backward, they covered their father’s nakedness. Their faces were turned away, and they did not see their father naked.

and asked the servant, “Who is that man in the field coming to meet us?”The servant answered, “It is my master.” So she took her veil and covered herself.

The first one came out red-looking, covered with hair like a fur coat, and they named him Esau.

He looked and saw a well in a field. Three flocks of sheep were lying there beside it because the sheep were watered from this well. A large stone covered the opening of the well.

So she took off her widow’s clothes, veiled her face, covered herself, and sat at the entrance to Enaim, which is on the way to Timnah. For she saw that, though Shelah had grown up, she had not been given to him as a wife.

When Judah saw her, he thought she was a prostitute, for she had covered her face.

When Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt, the frogs came up and covered the land of Egypt.

They covered the surface of the whole land so that the land was black, and they consumed all the plants on the ground and all the fruit on the trees that the hail had left. Nothing green was left on the trees or the plants in the field throughout the land of Egypt.

The waters came back and covered the chariots and horsemen, the entire army of Pharaoh, that had gone after them into the sea. None of them survived.

The floods covered them;they sank to the depths like a stone.

But You blew with Your breath,and the sea covered them.They sank like leadin the mighty waters.

So at evening quail came and covered the camp. In the morning there was a layer of dew all around the camp.

If its owner is there with it, the man does not have to make restitution. If it was rented, the loss is covered by its rental price.

When Moses went up the mountain, the cloud covered it.

The glory of the Lord settled on Mount Sinai, and the cloud covered it for six days. On the seventh day He called to Moses from the cloud.

The cloud covered the tent of meeting, and the glory of the Lord filled the tabernacle.

the priest will look, and if the skin disease has covered his entire body, he is to pronounce the infected person clean. Since he has turned totally white, he is clean.

They brought as their offering before the Lord six covered carts and 12 oxen, a cart from every two leaders and an ox from each one, and presented them in front of the tabernacle.

On the day the tabernacle was set up, the cloud covered the tabernacle, the tent of the testimony, and it appeared like fire above the tabernacle from evening until morning.

When the community assembled against them, Moses and Aaron turned toward the tent of meeting, and suddenly the cloud covered it, and the Lord’s glory appeared.

Jael went out to greet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, my lord. Come in with me. Don’t be afraid.” So he went into her tent, and she covered him with a rug.

He said to her, “Please give me a little water to drink for I am thirsty.” She opened a container of milk, gave him a drink, and covered him again.

Then Michal took the household idol and put it on the bed, placed some goat hair on its head, and covered it with a garment.

David was climbing the slope of the Mount of Olives, weeping as he ascended. His head was covered, and he was walking barefoot. Each of the people with him covered their heads and went up, weeping as they ascended.

Now King David was old and getting on in years. Although they covered him with bedclothes, he could not get warm.

For the cherubim were spreading their wings over the place of the ark, so that the cherubim covered the ark and its poles from above.

Then Elisha prayed, “Lord, please open his eyes and let him see.” So the Lord opened the servant’s eyes. He looked and saw that the mountain was covered with horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.

When King Hezekiah heard their report, he tore his clothes, covered himself with sackcloth, and went into the Lord’s temple.

Then he sent Eliakim, who was in charge of the palace, Shebna the court secretary, and the leading priests, who were wearing sackcloth, to the prophet Isaiah son of Amoz.

The throne had six steps; there was a footstool covered in gold for the throne, armrests on either side of the seat, and two lions standing beside the armrests.

Then Mordecai returned to the King’s Gate, but Haman, overwhelmed, hurried off for home with his head covered.

Just as the king returned from the palace garden to the house of wine drinking, Haman was falling on the couch where Esther was reclining. The king exclaimed, “Would he actually violate the queen while I am in the palace?” As soon as the statement left the king’s mouth, Haman’s face was covered.

Though his face is covered with fatand his waistline bulges with it,

City officials stopped talkingand covered their mouths with their hands.

Have I covered my transgressions as others doby hiding my guilt in my heart,

For the choir director: on the Gittith. A Davidic psalm.Yahweh, our Lord,how magnificent is Your name throughout the earth!You have covered the heavens with Your majesty.

Davidic. A Maskil.How joyful is the onewhose transgression is forgiven,whose sin is covered!

My disgrace is before me all day long,and shame has covered my face,

But You have crushed us in a haunt of jackalsand have covered us with deepest darkness.

The pastures are clothed with flocksand the valleys covered with grain.They shout in triumph; indeed, they sing.

While you lie among the sheepfolds,the wings of a dove are covered with silver,and its feathers with glistening gold.

For I have endured insults because of You,and shame has covered my face.

May my adversaries be disgraced and destroyed;may those who seek my harmbe covered with disgrace and humiliation.

He led them safely, and they were not afraid;but the sea covered their enemies.

The mountains were covered by its shade,and the mighty cedars with its branches.

You took away Your people’s guilt;You covered all their sin.Selah

You have shortened the days of his youth;You have covered him with shame.Selah

You covered it with the deepas if it were a garment;the waters stood above the mountains.

Water covered their foes;not one of them remained.

The earth opened up and swallowed Dathan;it covered the assembly of Abiram.

Thistles had come up everywhere,weeds covered the ground,and the stone wall was ruined.

His arms are rods of goldset with topaz.His body is an ivory panelcovered with sapphires.

When you lift up your hands in prayer,I will refuse to look at you;even if you offer countless prayers,I will not listen.Your hands are covered with blood.

Seraphim were standing above Him; each one had six wings: with two he covered his face, with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.

But you are thrown out without a grave,like a worthless branch,covered by those slain with the swordand dumped into a rocky pit like a trampled corpse.

Your dead will live; their bodies will rise.Awake and sing, you who dwell in the dust!For you will be covered with the morning dew,and the earth will bring out the departed spirits.

Indeed, all their tables are covered with vomit;there is no place without a stench.

For the Lord has poured out on youan overwhelming urge to sleep;He has shut your eyes—the prophets,and covered your heads—the seers.

The Lord’s sword is covered with blood.It drips with fat,with the blood of lambs and goats,with the fat of the kidneys of rams.For the Lord has a sacrifice in Bozrah,a great slaughter in the land of Edom.

I have put My words in your mouth,and covered you in the shadow of My hand,in order to plant the heavens,to found the earth,and to say to Zion, “You are My people.”

The sea has risen over Babylon;she is covered with its turbulent waves.

ס SamekYou have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us;You have killed without compassion.

You have covered Yourself with a cloudso that no prayer can pass through.

“Then I passed by you and saw you, and you were indeed at the age for love. So I spread the edge of My garment over you and covered your nakedness. I pledged Myself to you, entered into a covenant with you, and you became Mine.” This is the declaration of the Lord God.

I clothed you in embroidered cloth and provided you with leather sandals. I also wrapped you in fine linen and covered you with silk.

In order to stir up wrath and take vengeance,I have put her blood on the bare rock,so that it would not be covered.

You were in Eden, the garden of God.Every kind of precious stone covered you:carnelian, topaz, and diamond,beryl, onyx, and jasper,sapphire, turquoise and emerald.Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold;they were prepared on the day you were created.

As I looked, tendons appeared on them, flesh grew, and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

the thresholds, the beveled windows, and the balconies all around with their three levels opposite the threshold—were overlaid with wood on all sides. They were paneled from the ground to the windows (but the windows were covered),

You will be covered with shameand destroyed foreverbecause of violence done to your brother Jacob.

Furthermore, both man and beast must be covered with sackcloth, and everyone must call out earnestly to God. Each must turn from his evil ways and from the violence he is doing.

Then my enemy will see,and she will be covered with shame,the one who said to me,“Where is the Lord your God?”My eyes will look at her in triumph;at that time she will be trampledlike mud in the streets.

When they persecute you in one town, escape to another. For I assure you: You will not have covered the towns of Israel before the Son of Man comes.

“Therefore, don’t be afraid of them, since there is nothing covered that won’t be uncovered and nothing hidden that won’t be made known.

While he was still speaking, suddenly a bright cloud covered them, and a voice from the cloud said:This is My beloved Son.I take delight in Him.Listen to Him!

There is nothing covered that won’t be uncovered, nothing hidden that won’t be made known.

But a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, was left at his gate.

How joyful are those whose lawless acts are forgivenand whose sins are covered!

So if a woman’s head is not covered, her hair should be cut off. But if it is disgraceful for a woman to have her hair cut off or her head shaved, she should be covered.

It contained the gold altar of incense and the ark of the covenant, covered with gold on all sides, in which there was a gold jar containing the manna, Aaron’s staff that budded, and the tablets of the covenant.

Something like a sea of glass, similar to crystal, was also before the throne. Four living creatures covered with eyes in front and in back were in the middle and around the throne.

Each of the four living creatures had six wings; they were covered with eyes around and inside. Day and night they never stop, saying:Holy, holy, holy,Lord God, the Almighty,who was, who is, and who is coming.

So he carried me away in the Spirit to a desert. I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and 10 horns.