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Genesis 15:17

And he is becoming the Sun, she-who-comes,577 and a veiled-one578 he has become and behold, a fire-pot of smoke and a torch of fire which has crossed-over between the Pieces of the Mighty One.580


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578

Strong’s #5939, alatah, עלטה, noun feminine. Veiled-one, obscured, eclipsed. Appears four times in the scriptures, from an unused verb to be veiled, covered, concealed. Cf. Fuerst. Assumed by translators to mean thick darkness. Gesenius notes a meaning related to thick.