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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 - and he receiveth from their hand, and doth fashion it with a graving tool, and doth make it a molten calf, and they say, 'These thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 32:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 32:8 - they have turned aside hastily from the way that I have commanded them; they have made for themselves a molten calf, and bow themselves to it, and sacrifice to it, and say, These thy gods, O Israel, who brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 34:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 34:17 - a molten god thou dost not make to thyself.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 19:4 - 'Ye do not turn unto the idols, and a molten god ye do not make to yourselves; I am Jehovah your God.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 33:52

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 33:52 - then ye have dispossessed all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and have destroyed all their imagery, yea, all their molten images ye destroy, and all their high places ye lay waste,

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:12 - and Jehovah saith unto me, Rise, go down, hasten from this, for thy people hath done corruptly, whom thou hast brought out of Egypt; they have turned aside hastily out of the way which I have commanded them -- they have made to themselves a molten thing!

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 9:16

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 9:16 - and I see, and lo, ye have sinned against Jehovah your God; ye have made to yourselves a molten calf; ye have turned aside hastily out of the way which Jehovah hath commanded you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 27:15

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 27:15 - 'Cursed is the man who maketh a graven and molten image, the abomination of Jehovah, work of the hands of an artificer, and hath put it in a secret place, -- and all the people have answered and said, Amen.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:3 - And he giveth back the eleven hundred silverlings to his mother, and his mother saith, 'I had certainly sanctified the silver to Jehovah, from my hand, for my son, to make a graven image, and a molten image; and now, I give it back to thee.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 17:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 17:4 - And he giveth back the money to his mother, and his mother taketh two hundred silverlings, and giveth them to a refiner, and he maketh them a graven image, and a molten image, and it is in the house of Micah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:14 - And the five men, those going to traverse the land of Laish, answer and say unto their brethren, 'Have ye known that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and graven image, and molten image? and now, know what ye do.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:17 - yea, the five men, those going to traverse the land, go up -- they have come in thither -- they have taken the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image -- and the priest is standing at the opening of the gate, and the six hundred men who are girded with weapons of war --

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 18:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:18 - yea, these have entered the house of Micah, and take the graven image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image; and the priest saith unto them, 'What are ye doing?'

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 14:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:9 - and thou dost evil above all who have been before thee, and goest, and makest to thee other gods and molten images to provoke Me to anger, and Me thou hast cast behind thy back:

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 17:16

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:16 - And they forsake all the commands of Jehovah their God, and make to them a molten image -- two calves, and make a shrine, and bow themselves to all the host of the heavens, and serve Baal,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 28:2

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 28:2 - and walketh in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also, molten images hath made for Baalim,

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:3 - And in the eighth year of his reign (and he yet a youth), he hath begun to seek to the God of David his father, and in the twelfth year he hath begun to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the shrines, and the graven images, and the molten images.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 34:4

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 34:4 - And they break down before him the altars of the Baalim, and the images that are on high above them he hath cut down, and the shrines, and the graven images, and the molten images, he hath broken and beaten small, and streweth on the surface of the graves of those sacrificing to them,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 9:18

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 9:18 - 'Also, when they have made to themselves a molten calf, and say, this is thy god that brought thee up out of Egypt, and do great despisings,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 106:19

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 106:19 - They make a calf in Horeb, And bow themselves to a molten image,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 25:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 25:7 - And swallowed up hath He in this mountain The face of the wrapping that is wrapped over all the peoples, And of the covering that is spread over all the nations.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 28:20

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 28:20 - For shorter hath been the bed Than to stretch one's self out in, And the covering hath been narrower Than to wrap one's self up in.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:1 - Wo to apostate sons, The affirmation of Jehovah! To do counsel, and not from Me, And to spread out a covering, and not of My spirit, So as to add sin to sin.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:22 - And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou scatterest them as a sickening thing, 'Go out,' thou sayest to it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 42:17

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:17 - Removed backward -- utterly ashamed, Are those trusting in a graven image, Those saying to a molten image, 'Ye are our gods.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Hos 13:2

Unchecked Copy BoxHos 13:2 - And now do they add to sin, And make to them a molten image of their silver, By their own understanding -- idols, A work of artizans -- all of it, Of them they say, who are sacrificers among men, 'The calves let them kiss.'

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Unchecked Copy Box Nah 1:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 1:14 - And commanded concerning thee hath Jehovah, 'No more of thy name doth spread abroad, From the house of thy gods I cut off graven and molten image, I appoint thy grave, for thou hast been vile.

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Unchecked Copy Box Hab 2:18

Unchecked Copy BoxHab 2:18 - What profit hath a graven image given That its former hath graven it? A molten image and teacher of falsehood, That trusted hath the former on his own formation -- to make dumb idols?
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