מַסֵּכָה massekhah

Hebrew word for “liquid” · Strong’s H4541 · used 28 times in 28 verses

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Meaning

1) a pouring, libation, molten metal, cast image, drink offering;

Senses in the lexicon

• liquid (26)
• veil (2)

How it is translated

Glosses given for massekhah in context, with how often each is used:

• molten image 14
• molten metal 7
• molten images 4
• libation 1
• woven stuff 1
• blanket 1

Where it is used

Also in 2 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 18 (3), Exodus 32 (2), Deuteronomy 9 (2), Judges 17 (2), 2 Chronicles 34 (2), Isaiah 30 (2), Exodus 34 (1), Leviticus 19 (1), Numbers 33 (1), Deuteronomy 27 (1)

Forms

• מסכה 11
• ומסכה 5
• המסכה 2
• והמסכות 2
• למסכה 2
• והמסכה 2
• מסכתם 1
• ומסכות 1
• מסכות 1
• מסכת 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with massekhah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• פֶּסֶל pesel “idol” 9
• עֵגֶל egel “calf” 7
• מַהֵר maher “quickly” 3
• תְּרָפִים teraphim “teraphim” 3
• פָּסִיל pesil “idol” 3
• אֵפוֹד ephod “ephod” 3
• אֲשֵׁרָה asherah “Asherah” 3
• הֶם hem “them” 6
• בַּעַל baal “Baal” 3
• כֶּסֶף keseph “silver” 4
• זָבַח zavach “to sacrifice” 3
• צָוָה tsavah “to command” 4

Key verses

The verses using massekhah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 32:4 — And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which…
• Exodus 32:8 — They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto,…
• Numbers 33:52 — Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck…
• Deuteronomy 27:15 — Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret…
• 1 Kings 14:9 — But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me…
• 2 Kings 17:16 — And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of…
• 2 Chronicles 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…
• 2 Chronicles 34:4 — And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and…
• Isaiah 30:1 — Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin…
• Isaiah 30:22 — Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous…
• Hosea 13:2 — And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the…
• Habakkuk 2:18 — What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.