מַסֵּכָה
mas.se.khah
“liquid”
Definition
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)
from H5258 (נָסַךְ);
- a pouring, libation, molten metal, cast image, drink offering 1a) libation (with covenant sacrifice) 1b) molten metal, molten image, molten gods
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
H:N-F
H:N-F
Occurrences
מַסֵּכָה appears 28 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
You have done more evil than all who came before you. You have proceeded to make for yourself other gods and molten images to provoke Me, and you have flung Me behind your back.
‘Cursed is the man who makes a carved idol or molten image—an abomination to the LORD, the work of the hands of a craftsman—and sets it up in secret.’And let all the people say, ‘Amen!’
You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.
“Woe to the rebellious children,”declares the LORD,“to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine,who form an alliance, but against My will,heaping up sin upon sin.
Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish said to their brothers, “Did you know that one of these houses has an ephod, household gods, a graven image, and a molten idol? Now think about what you should do.”
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