Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible (1898)
HANGING, HANGINGS. The words are not the singular and plural of the same word in the Hebrew, but are translations of quite different words. The "hanging" — literally, "a cover" — is the word for the curtain before the door of the tabernacle, Ex 26:36-37; Ex 39:38, and for the curtain before the entrance of the court. Ex 27:16; Ex 38:18; Num 4:26. The same Hebrew word is several times translated correctly in the expression, "veil of the
covering." Ex 35:12; Ex 39:34; Ex 40:21; Num 4:5. The "hangings"—literally, "that which is in motion" — were the coverings upon the walls of the court of the tabernacle. Ex 27:9; Ps 35:17; Ex 38:9; Num 3:26; Song 4:6, Num 4:26. The word "hangings" is used in 2 Kgs 23:7, but the Hebrew word may more properly be translated "tents," such as were used in the impure rites of Ashtoreth.