נֶסֶךְ nesekh
Hebrew word for “drink offering” · Strong’s H5262 · used 64 times in 62 verses
Meaning
1) drink offering, libation, molten image, something poured out;
How it is translated
Glosses given for nesekh in context, with how often each is used:
- drink offerings 30
- drink offering 28
- molten image 3
- like drink offering 2
- molten images 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers | 34 | 2.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 10 | 0.5 | |
| Exodus | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Leviticus | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Isaiah | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Joel | 3 | 3.1 | |
| 2 Kings | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Ezekiel | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Genesis | 1 | 0.0 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Psalms | 1 | 0.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Numbers 29 (18), Numbers 28 (8), Numbers 15 (4), Jeremiah 44 (4), Leviticus 23 (3), Exodus 29 (2), Numbers 6 (2), 2 Kings 16 (2), Joel 1 (2), Genesis 35 (1)
Forms
- ונסכיהם 15
- נסכים 8
- ונסכה 7
- ונסכו 6
- ונסך 5
- נסכו 4
- נסך 3
- לנסך 3
- נסכיהם 3
- וכנסכה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with nesekh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- מִנְחָה minchah “offering” 36
- עֹלָה olah “burnt offering” 26
- נָסַךְ nasakh “to pour” 13
- כֶּבֶשׂ keves “lamb” 16
- תָּמִיד tamid “continually” 15
- שָׂעִיר sair “he-goat” 11
- נִיחֹחַ nichoach “soothing” 10
- רֵיחַ reach “aroma” 10
- בַּד bad “alone” 12
- פַּר par “bullock” 11
- אַיִל ayil “ram” 11
- חַטָּאת chattat “sin” 12
Key verses
The verses using nesekh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Exodus 29:40 — And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.
- 2 Kings 16:15 — And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king’s burnt…
- Psalms 16:4 — Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
- Jeremiah 7:18 — The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink…
- Jeremiah 10:14 — Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- Jeremiah 19:13 — And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they…
- Jeremiah 32:29 — And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense…
- Jeremiah 44:17 — But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her,…
- Ezekiel 20:28 — For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and…
- Ezekiel 45:17 — And it shall be the prince’s part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths,…
- Joel 1:13 — Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and…
- Joel 2:14 — Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?
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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.