נֶ֫סֶךְ
ne.sekh
“drink offering”
Definition
a libation; also a cast idol
or נֵסֶךְ; from H5258 (נָסַךְ);
- drink offering, libation, molten image, something poured out 1a) drink offering 1b) molten images Aramaic equivalent: ne.sakh (*נְסַךְ *"drink offering" H5261)
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
נֶ֫סֶךְ appears 62 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
The next day they offered sacrifices and presented burnt offerings to the LORD: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, along with their drink offerings, and other sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.
Your portion is among the smooth stones of the valley;indeed, they are your lot.Even to them you have poured out a drink offeringand offered a grain offering.Should I relent because of these?
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Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine with each bull, a third of a hin with the ram, and a quarter hin with each lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon throughout the year.
Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.