מַסֵּכָה
maççêkâh · mas-say-kaw'
properly, a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image); by implication, a libation, i.e. league; concretely a coverlet (as if poured out)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5258 (נָסַךְ);
properly, a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image); by implication, a libation, i.e. league; concretely a coverlet (as if poured out)
- properly, a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image)
- by implication, a libation, i.e. league
- concretely, a coverlet (as if poured out)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: covering, molten (image), vail.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to support and uphold › the open hand that covers › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to support and uphold of the open hand that covers that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מַסֵּכָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
28 occurrences · 28 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and a molten image3 · 11%
- and the molten image3 · 11%
- them a molten2 · 7%
- them molten images2 · 7%
- and the molten images2 · 7%
- it a molten1 · 4%
- thee no molten1 · 4%
- to yourselves molten1 · 4%
- all their molten1 · 4%
- them a molten image1 · 4%
- you a molten1 · 4%
- or molten image1 · 4%
- and molten images1 · 4%
- also molten images1 · 4%
- the molten image1 · 4%
- and the vail1 · 4%
- himself on it: and the covering1 · 4%
- with a covering1 · 4%
- of thy molten images1 · 4%
- to the molten images1 · 4%
- it; the molten image1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.