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prop. some form of the verb ñָúִø , sathar', to hide: namely ñֵúֶø , se'ther, a shelter (1Sa_25:20; Job_40:21; Psa_61:4; Isa_16:4; Isa_20:2; elsewhere usually “secret place”); îַñְúּåֹø , mistor', protection (Isa_4:6); elsewhere some form of the verb ñָëִêְ , sakak', to weave: namely, îåּñָêְ , musak' (text îֵéñָêְ , meysak'), a covered walk or portico (Sept. èåìÝëéïí , apparently reading îåּñָã , Vulg. musarch'); ñֹêְ , sok, a lair (Jer_25:8; “den,” Psa_10:9; elsewhere a hut, “pavilion,” Psa_27:5; “tabernacle,” Psalm 867:2); ñֻëָּä , sukkah' (Job_38:40), a booth (as elsewhere usually rendered). This term is generally applied to a thicket for wild beasts, but in 2Ki_16:18, we read that Ahaz, when spoiling the Temple, “took down the covert ( îåּñָêְ , musak') for the Sabbath that they had built in the house;” which bishop Patrick imagines was ‘a covered place, where the king sat, in the porch of the Temple, or at the entrance of it, upon the Sabbath, or other great solemnities. Ahaz took this away, intending, probably, not to trouble himself with coming to the Temple any more, but to sacrifice elsewhere.” SEE COURT. It rather designates a cloister, shaded from the heat of the sun for the accommodation of the courtly worshippers (Thenius, in loc.), such as we know ran around the interior of the Temple in later times. SEE TEMPLE.