מָשַׁךְ
mâshak · maw-shak'
to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall, etc.)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall, etc.)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: draw (along, out), continue, defer, extend, forbear, [idiom] give, handle, make (pro-, sound) long, [idiom] sow, scatter, stretch out.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to consume, to destroy › the open hand that covers
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to consume, to destroy of the open hand that covers.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מָשַׁךְ 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
36 occurrences · 36 OT · 0 NT · 34 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- draw2 · 7%
- scattered2 · 7%
- and they drew1 · 4%
- unto them, draw out1 · 4%
- soundeth long1 · 4%
- and which hath not drawn1 · 4%
- and it shall come to pass, that when they make a long1 · 4%
- and draw1 · 4%
- and i will draw1 · 4%
- they that handle1 · 4%
- drew themselves along1 · 4%
- drew1 · 4%
- and a certain man drew1 · 4%
- didst thou forbear1 · 4%
- shall draw1 · 4%
- he draweth1 · 4%
- canst thou draw out1 · 4%
- when he draweth1 · 4%
- draw me not away1 · 4%
- o continue1 · 4%
- wilt thou draw out1 · 4%
- let there be none to extend1 · 4%
- deferred1 · 4%
- to give1 · 4%
- unto them that draw1 · 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.