'Covered' in the Bible

And the waters overcame everything on the earth; and all the mountains under heaven were covered.

The waters went fifteen cubits higher, till all the mountains were covered.

And Jacob said to Rebekah, his mother, But Esau my brother is covered with hair, while I am smooth:

And he did not make out who he was, because his hands were covered with hair like his brother Esau's hands: so he gave him a blessing.

When Judah saw her he took her to be a loose woman of the town, because her face was covered.

And he said, I am the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob. And Moses kept his face covered for fear of looking on God.

And when Aaron put out his hand over the waters of Egypt, the frogs came up and all the land of Egypt was covered with them.

And the face of the earth will be covered with them, so that you will not be able to see the earth: and they will be the destruction of everything which up to now has not been damaged, everything which was not crushed by the ice-storm, and every tree still living in your fields.

For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.

They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.

And it came about that in the evening little birds came up and the place was covered with them: and in the morning there was dew all round about the tents.

If the owner is with it, he will not have to make payment: if he gave money for the use of it, the loss is covered by the payment.

And Moses went up into the mountain, and it was covered by the cloud.

There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver.

And when you give a meal offering cooked in the oven, let it be of unleavened cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, or thin unleavened cakes covered with oil.

If any man gives his offering as a praise-offering, then let him give with the offering, unleavened cakes mixed with oil and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil and cakes of the best meal well mixed with oil.

And if the priest sees that all his flesh is covered with the leper's disease, the priest will say that he is clean: it is all turned white, he is clean.

And the leper who has the disease on him is to go about with signs of grief, with his hair loose and his mouth covered, crying, Unclean, unclean.

And let him put the perfume on the fire before the Lord so that the ark may be covered with a cloud of the smoke of the perfume, in order that death may not overtake him.

And any man of Israel, or any other living among them, who gets with his bow any beast or bird used for food, is to see that its blood is covered with earth.

And after the holy place and all its vessels have been covered up by Aaron and his sons, when the tents of the people go forward, the sons of Kohath are to come and take it up; but the holy things may not be touched by them for fear of death.

And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil, with their meal offering and drink offerings.

And they came with their offerings before the Lord, six covered carts and twelve oxen; a cart for every two of the chiefs, and for every one an ox.

And so it was at all times: it was covered by the cloud, and by a light as of fire by night.

Now on the day after, Moses went into the Tent of witness; and he saw that Aaron's rod, the rod of the house of Levi, had put out buds, and was covered with buds and flowers and fruit.

On the four edges of your robe, with which your body is covered, put ornaments of twisted threads.

And have among your arms a spade; and when you have been to that place, let that which comes from you be covered up with earth:

And of Benjamin he said, Benjamin is the loved one of the Lord, he will be kept safe at all times; he will be covered by the Most High, resting between his arms.

Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking them.

Then Gideon said to God, Do not be moved to wrath against me if I say only this: let me make one more test with the wool; let the wool now be dry, while the earth is covered with dew.

And all that day Abimelech was fighting against the town; and he took it, and put to death the people who were in it, and had the town pulled down and covered with salt.

His legs were covered with plates of brass and hanging on his back was a javelin of brass.

And he said to her, What is his form? And she said, It is an old man coming up covered with a robe. And Saul saw that it was Samuel, and with his face bent down to the earth he gave him honour.

And David went up the slopes of the Mount of Olives weeping all the way, with his head covered and no shoes on his feet: and all the people who were with him, covering their heads, went up weeping.

The covered way before the Temple of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and ten cubits wide in front of the house.

The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.

Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold.

Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).

And the floor of the house was covered with gold, inside and out.

And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.

And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.

Then he made a covered room for his high seat when he gave decisions; this was the covered room of judging; it was covered with cedar-wood from floor to roof.

And the house for his living-place, the other open square in the covered room, was made in the same way. And then he made a house like it for Pharaoh's daughter, whom Solomon had taken as his wife.

The great outer square all round was walled with three lines of squared stones and a line of cedar-wood boards, round about the open square inside the house of the Lord and the covered room of the king's house.

So the prophet went away, and pulling his head-band over his eyes to keep his face covered, took his place by the road waiting for the king.

But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans, and the floor of the carriage was covered with the blood from his wound, and by evening he was dead.

And they went after them as far as Jordan; and all the road was covered with clothing and vessels dropped by the Aramaeans in their flight. So those who were sent went back and gave the news to the king.

And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.

Then Solomon made burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of the Lord which he had put up in front of the covered way,

And Asa, hearing these words of Azariah, the son of Oded the prophet, took heart and put away all the disgusting things out of all the land of Judah and Benjamin, and out of the towns which he had taken from the hill-country of Ephraim; and he made new again the altar of the Lord in front of the covered way of the Lord's house.

On the first day of the first month the work of making the house holy was started, and on the eighth day they came to the covered way of the Lord; in eight days they made the Lord's house holy, and on the sixteenth day of the first month the work was done.

Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.

And in every part of the kingdom, wherever the king's word and his order came, there was great sorrow among the Jews, and weeping and crying and going without food; and numbers of them were stretched on the earth covered with dust and haircloth.

And Mordecai came back to the king's doorway. But Haman went quickly back to his house, sad and with his head covered.

Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?

Running against him like a man of war, covered by his thick breastplate; even like a king ready for the fight,

Because his face is covered with fat, and his body has become thick;

O earth, let not my blood be covered, and let my cry have no resting-place!

Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.

Your light is made dark so that you are unable to see, and you are covered by a mass of waters.

As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;

If I kept my evil doings covered, and my sin in the secret of my breast,

The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.

Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?

Let them be covered together in the dust; let their faces be dark in the secret place of the underworld.

He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him.

For he has not been unmoved by the pain of him who is troubled; or kept his face covered from him; but he has given an answer to his cry.

Let not your face be covered from me; do not put away your servant in wrath; you have been my help: do not give me up or take your support from me, O God of my salvation.

Happy is he who has forgiveness for his wrongdoing, and whose sin is covered.

Let all those who take pleasure in my troubles be shamed and come to nothing: let those who are lifted up against me be covered with shame and have no honour.

My downfall is ever before me, and I am covered with the shame of my face;

Though you have let us be crushed in the place of jackals, though we are covered with darkest shade.

Why is your face covered, and why do you give no thought to our trouble and our cruel fate?

Fear and shaking have come over me, with deep fear I am covered.

Will you take your rest among the flocks? like the wings of a dove covered with silver, and its feathers with yellow gold.

I have been wounded with sharp words because of you; my face has been covered with shame.

Let me not be covered by the flowing waters; let not the deep waters go over my head, and let me not be shut up in the underworld.

Let not your face be covered from your servant, for I am in trouble; quickly give me an answer.

He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea.

The mountains were covered with its shade, and the great trees with its branches.

The wrongdoing of your people had forgiveness; all their sin had been covered. (Selah.)

O Lord, God of my salvation, I have been crying to you for help by day and by night:

You have made him old before his time; he is covered with shame. (Selah.)

You will be covered by his feathers; under his wings you will be safe: his good faith will be your salvation.

You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

If I say, Only let me be covered by the dark, and the light about me be night;

As for those who come round me, let their heads be covered by the evil of their lips.

By his hand the heaven is covered with clouds and rain is stored up for the earth; he makes the grass tall on the mountains.

My bed is covered with cushions of needlework, with coloured cloths of the cotton thread of Egypt;

Blessings are on the head of the upright, but the face of sinners will be covered with sorrow.

Hate is a cause of violent acts, but all errors are covered up by love.

Hate is covered up by the lips of the upright man, but he who lets out evil about another is foolish.

He who goes about talking of others makes secrets public, but the true-hearted man keeps things covered.

He who keeps a sin covered is looking for love; but he who keeps on talking of a thing makes division between friends.

And it was all full of thorns, and covered with waste plants, and its stone wall was broken down.

Though his hate is covered with deceit, his sin will be seen openly before the meeting of the people.

In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

His hands are as rings of gold ornamented with beryl-stones; his body is as a smooth plate of ivory covered with sapphires.