Dict: easton - Curtain

easton:

Curtain @

(1.) Ten curtains, each twenty-eight cubits long and four wide, made of fine linen, also eleven made of goat's hair, covered the tabernacle kjv@Exodus:26:1-13 kjv@Exodus:36:8-17).

(2.) The sacred curtain, separating the holy of holies from the sanctuary, is designated by a different Hebrew word (peroketh). It is described as a "veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen of cunning work" kjv@Exodus:26:31; kjv@Leviticus:16:2; kjv@Numbers:18:7).

(3.) "Stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain" kjv@Isaiah:40:22), is an expression used with reference to the veil or awning which Orientals spread for a screen over their courts in summer. According to the prophet, the heavens are spread over our heads as such an awning. Similar expressions are found in kjv@Psalms:104:2l; comp. kjv@Isaiah:44:24; kjv@Job:9:8.