ke.sut denotes a covering, especially clothing or a garment, and also what conceals or envelops.

The attested use most often concerns a material garment or clothing supplied, worn, pledged, or lacking; several verses also use the noun for what covers, conceals, or envelops in imagery concerning eyes, the heavens, and the realm described as naked.

1. Garment or clothing for bodily protection and provision · dominant

   In Exodus 22:26, two construct-form tokens occur in the instruction about taking a neighbor's garment as a pledge and returning it by sunset. Deuteronomy 22:12 places the construct form with the cloak used to cover oneself, while Job 24:7 and Job 31:19 use the absolute form where people lack clothing or protection against cold; Exodus 21:10 includes the construct form among provisions that must not be diminished.

   Exodus 22:26Deuteronomy 22:12Job 24:7Job 31:19Exodus 21:10
2. What conceals or envelops · common

   Genesis 20:16 uses the construct form in the phrase rendered by the APB as “a covering of the eyes.” Isaiah 50:3 speaks of clothing the heavens with darkness and making sackcloth their covering, and Job 26:6 says that Abaddon has no covering as it lies exposed.

   Genesis 20:16Isaiah 50:3Job 26:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB presents the term with wording such as “cloak,” “covering,” “garment,” and “clothing,” and also uses it in the phrases “covering of the eyes” and the heavens' “covering.” These are renderings of whole clauses.