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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 Box Exo 32:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:4 - He received what they handed him, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, Yisra'el, which brought you up out of the land of Mitzrayim."

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:8 - They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, 'These are your gods, Yisra'el, which brought you up out of the land of Mitzrayim.'"

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:17 - You shall make no cast idols for yourselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4 - "'Don't turn to idols, nor make molten gods for yourselves. I am the LORD your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - then you shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their figured stones, and destroy all their molten images, and demolish all their high places:

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:12 - The LORD said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people whom you have brought forth out of Mitzrayim have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:16 - I looked, and, behold, you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made you a molten calf: you had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:15 - Cursed be the man who makes an engraved or molten image, an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and sets it up in secret. All the people shall answer and say, Amein.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - He restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I most assuredly dedicate the silver to the LORD from my hand for my son, to make an engraved image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it to you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:4 - When he restored the money to his mother, his mother took two hundred pieces of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made of it an engraved image and a molten image: and it was in the house of Mikhah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14 - Then the five men who went to spy out the country of Layish answered, and said to their brothers, Do you know that there is in these houses an efod, and terafim, and an engraved image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what you have to do.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17 - The five men who went to spy out the land went up, and came in there, and took the engraved image, and the efod, and the terafim, and the molten image: and the Kohen stood by the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men girt with weapons of war.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:18 - When these went into Mikhah's house, and fetched the engraved image, the efod, and the terafim, and the molten image, the Kohen said to them, What do you?

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:9 - but have done evil above all who were before you, and have gone and made you other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and have cast me behind your back:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16 - They forsook all the mitzvot of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made an Asherah, and worshiped all the host of the sky, and served Ba`al.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - but he walked in the ways of the kings of Yisra'el, and made also molten images for the Ba`alim.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:3 - For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to purge Yehudah and Yerushalayim from the high places, and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - They broke down the altars of the Ba`alim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the engraved images, and the molten images, he broke in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it on the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:18 - Yes, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is your God who brought you up out of Mitzrayim, and had committed awful blasphemies;

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:19 - They made a calf in Horev, And worshiped a molten image.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:7 - He will destroy in this mountain the surface of the covering that covers all peoples, and the veil that is spread over all nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 - For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it; and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:1 - Woe to the rebellious children, says the LORD, who take counsel, but not of me; and who make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as an unclean thing; you shall tell it, Get you hence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:17 - They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly disappointed, who trust in engraved images, who tell molten images, You are our gods.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:2 - Now they sin more and more, And have made themselves molten images of their silver, Even idols according to their own understanding, All of them the work of the craftsmen. They say of them, "They offer human sacrifice and kiss the calves."

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:14 - The LORD has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, will I cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:18 - "What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?
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