King James Version

Psalms 104:2

Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment: who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain:

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עֹֽטֶהotehcoverעָטָהverb, qal, participle, absolute — “cover”, a verb used as a describing wordH5844to wrap, i.e. cover, veil, cloth, or rollarray self, be clad, (put a) cover (-ing, self), fill, put on, [idiom] surely, turn aside.א֭וֹרorbrightאוֹרnoun, common, both genders, singular, absolute — “bright”, the ordinary formH216illumination or (concrete) luminary (in every sense, including lightning, happiness, etc.)bright, clear, [phrase] day, light (-ning), morning, sun.כַּשַּׂלְמָ֑הkasalmahas clothesשַׂלְמָהpreposition, with the article, noun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “as clothes”, the ordinary formH8008a dressclothes, garment, raiment.נוֹטֶ֥הnotehspreadנָטָהverb, qal, participle, absolute — “spread”, a verb used as a describing wordH5186to stretch or spread out; by implication, to bend away (including moral deflection); used in a great variety of application[phrase] afternoon, apply, bow (down, -ing), carry aside, decline, deliver, extend, go down, be gone, incline, intend, lay, let down, offer, outstretched, overthrown, pervert, pitch, prolong, put away, shew, spread (out), stretch (forth, o…שָׁ֝מַ֗יִםshamayimheavenשָׁמַיִםnoun, common, masculine, plural, absolute — “heaven”, the ordinary formH8064the sky (as aloft; the dual perhaps alluding to the visible arch in which the clouds move, as well as to the higher ether where the celestial bodies revolve)air, [idiom] astrologer, heaven(-s).כַּיְרִיעָֽהkayriahas curtainיְרִיעָהpreposition, with the article, noun, common, feminine, singular, absolute — “as curtain”, the ordinary formH3407a hanging (as tremulous)curtain.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

Who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;

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American Standard Version (1901)

Who coverest thyself with light as with a garment; Who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;

Young’s Literal Translation

Covering himself [with] light as a garment, Stretching out the heavens as a curtain,

World English Bible

He covers himself with light as with a garment. He stretches out the heavens like a curtain.

Darby Translation

Covering thyself with light as with a garment, stretching out the heavens like a tent-curtain; —

Douay-Rheims

Sing to him, yea sing praises to him: relate all his wondrous works.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

Who coverest Thyself with light as with a garment, who stretchest out the heavens like a curtain;

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

who dost robe thyself with light as with a garment; spreading out the heaven as a curtain.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

ἀναβαλλόμενος φῶς ὡς ἱμάτιον, ἐκτείνων τὸν οὐρανὸν ὡσεὶ δέῤῥιν·