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Lexicon :: Strong's H4541 - massēḵâ

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מַסֵּכָה
Transliteration
massēḵâ
Pronunciation
mas-say-kaw'
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1375c,1376a

Strong’s Definitions

מַסֵּכָה maççêkâh, mas-say-kaw'; from H5258; 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):—covering, molten (image), vail.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x

The KJV translates Strong's H4541 in the following manner: image (18x), molten (7x), covering (2x), vail (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 28x
The KJV translates Strong's H4541 in the following manner: image (18x), molten (7x), covering (2x), vail (1x).

  1. a pouring, libation, molten metal, cast image, drink offering

    1. libation (with covenant sacrifice)

    2. molten metal, molten image, molten gods

  2. web, covering, veil, woven stuff

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַסֵּכָה maççêkâh, mas-say-kaw'; from H5258; 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):—covering, molten (image), vail.
STRONGS H4541: Abbreviations
† I. מַסֵּכָה noun feminine
1. molten metal, or image;
2. libation; — מ׳ Exodus 32:4 +; construct מַסֵּכַת Isaiah 30:22; plural מַסֵּכוֺת 1 Kings 14:9 +; suffix מַסֵּכֹתָם Numbers 33:52; —
1. libation, with covenant sacrifice in making covenant Isaiah 30:1 (= 1 נֶסֶךְ; see, however, below II. [span class="Hb maroon">נָסַךְ]).
2. molten metal, or image: עֵגֶל מַסֵּכָה molten calf Exodus 32:4, 8; Deuteronomy 9:16; Nehemiah 9:18, compare Psalm 106:19; אֱלֹהֵי מַסֵּכָה molten gods Exodus 34:17; Leviticus 19:4; צַלְמֵי מ׳ Numbers 33:52; וּמַסֵּכָה פֶּסֶל Deuteronomy 27:15; Judges 17:3, 4; Judges 18:14; Nahum 1:14; 2 Chronicles 34:3, 4, elsewhere (variously) Deuteronomy 9:12; Judges 18:17, 18; 1 Kings 14:9; 2 Kings 17:16; 2 Chronicles 28:2; Isaiah 30:22; Isaiah 42:17; Hosea 13:2; Habakkuk 2:18.

† II. מַסֵּכָה noun feminine woven stuff, web, especially as covering; — absolute הַנְּסוּכָה עַלֿ הַמּ׳ Isaiah 25:7 the web that is woven over all the nations (i.e. mourning-veil, symbol of distress; || הַלּוֺט הַלּוֺט); = bed-covering Isaiah 28:20 (in figurative). Perhaps also לִנְסֹךְ מ׳ Isaiah 30:1 weave a web (|| לַעֲשׂוֺת עֵצָה), reference to negotiations with Egypt (so Vulgate Aq Ew De Che Di; > Greek Version of the LXX Ges Hi Kn Brd Du pour a libation; מ׳ not elsewhere = נֶסֶךְ).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

32:4; 32:4; 32:8; 34:17

Leviticus

19:4

Numbers

33:52; 33:52

Deuteronomy

9:12; 9:16; 27:15

Judges

17:3; 17:4; 18:14; 18:17; 18:18

1 Kings

14:9; 14:9

2 Kings

17:16

2 Chronicles

28:2; 34:3; 34:4

Nehemiah

9:18

Psalms

106:19

Isaiah

25:7; 28:20; 30:1; 30:1; 30:22; 30:22; 42:17

Hosea

13:2

Nahum

1:14

Habakkuk

2:18

H4541

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Strong's Number H4541 matches the Hebrew מַסֵּכָה (massēḵâ),
which occurs 28 times in 28 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:4 - And he received them at their hands, and formed them with a graving tool; and he made them a molten calf, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:8 - they have quickly gone out of the way which thou commandedst; they have made for themselves a calf, and worshipped it, and sacrificed to it, and said, These are thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:17 - And thou shalt not make to thyself molten gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4 - Ye shall not follow idols, and ye shall not make to yourselves molten gods: I am the Lord your God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - And ye shall destroy all that dwell in the land before your face, and ye shall abolish their high places, and all their molten images ye shall destroy, and ye shall demolish all their pillars.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:12 - And the Lord said to me, Arise, go down quickly from hence, for thy people whom thou broughtest out of the land of Egypt have transgressed; they have gone aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them, and have made themselves a molten image.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:16 - And when I saw that ye had sinned against the Lord your God, and had made to yourselves a molten image, and had gone astray out of the way, which the Lord commanded you to [fn]keep;

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:15 - Cursed is the man whosoever shall make a graven or molten image, an abomination to the Lord, the work of the hands of craftsmen, and shall put it in a secret place: and all the people shall answer and say, So be it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I had wholly consecrated the money to the Lord out of my hand for my son, to make a graven and a molten image, and now I will restore it to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:4 - But he returned the silver to his mother, and his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave [fn]them to a silversmith, and he made it a graven and a molten image; and it was in the house of Michaias.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14 - And the five men who went to spy out the land of Laisa answered, and said to their brethren, Ye know that there is in this place an ephod, and theraphin, and a graven and a molten image; and now consider what ye shall do.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17 - And the five men who went to spy out the land went up, and entered into the house of Michaias, and the priest stood.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:18 - And they took the graven image, and the ephod, and the theraphin, and the molten image; and the priest said to them, What are ye doing?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16 - They forsook the commandments of the Lord their God, and made themselves [fn]graven images, even two heifers, and they made groves, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - But he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, for he made graven images.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:3 - And in the eighth year of his reign, and he being yet a youth, he began to seek the Lord God of his father David: and in the twelfth year of his reign he began to purge Juda and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the ornaments for the altars, and the molten images.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - And he pulled down the altars of Baalim that were before his face, and the high places that were above them; and he cut down the groves, and the graven images, and broke in pieces the molten images, and reduced them to powder, and cast it upon the surface of the tombs of those who had sacrificed to them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:18 - And still farther they even made to themselves a molten calf, and said, These are the gods that brought us up out of Egypt: and they wrought great provocations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:19 - (LXX 105:19) And they made a calf in Choreb, and worshipped the graven image,

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:7 - they shall anoint themselves with ointment in this mountain. Impart thou all these things to the nations; for this is God's counsel upon all the nations.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 - ye that are distressed; we cannot fight, but we are ourselves too weak for you to be gathered.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:1 - Woe to the apostate children, saith the Lord: ye have framed counsel, not by me, and covenants not by my Spirit, to add sins to sins:

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - And thou shalt pollute the plated idols, and thou shalt grind to powder the gilt ones, and shalt scatter them as the water of a removed woman, and thou shalt thrust them forth as dung.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:17 - But they are turned back: be ye utterly ashamed that trust in graven images, who say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:2 - And now they have sinned increasingly, and have made for themselves a molten image of their silver, according to the fashion of idols, the work of artificers accomplished for them: they say, Sacrifice men, for the calves have come to an end.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:14 - And the Lord shall give a command concerning thee; there shall no more of thy name be scattered: I will utterly destroy the graven images out of the house of thy god, and the molten images: I will make thy grave; for they are swift.

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Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:18 - What profits it the graven image, that they have graven it? one has made it a molten work, a false image; for the maker has trusted in his work, to make dumb idols.
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