H4541 - מַסֵּכָה (maççêkâh)

H4541 מַסֵּכָה (maççêkâh) mas-say-kaw'

Hebrew

Strong's 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)

Derivation: from H5258 (נָסַךְ);

KJV Usage: covering, molten (image), vail.

TWOT Reference: 1375c,1376a

Outline of Biblical Usage

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

1a) libation (with covenant sacrifice)

1b) molten metal, molten image, molten gods

2) web, covering, veil, woven stuff

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מַסֵּכָה massêkâh BDB Definition: 1) a pouring, libation, molten metal, cast image, drink offering 1a) libation (with covenant sacrifice) 1b) molten metal, molten image, molten gods 2) web, covering, veil, woven stuff Part of Speech: noun feminine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H5258 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1375c, 1376a Total KJV Occurrences: 29

Bible Occurrences (28)

32:4 32:8 34:17

19:4

33:52

9:12 9:16 27:15

17:3 17:4 18:14 18:17 18:18

14:9

17:16

28:2 34:3 34:4

9:18

106:19

25:7 28:20 30:1 30:22 42:17

13:2

1:14

2:18

Exodus 32:4

He took [the gold] from their hands, and with an engraving tool he fashioned it into a molten calf. And they said, These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!

Exodus 32:8

How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have bowed down to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 34:17

You shall make no molten gods for yourselves.

Leviticus 19:4

Do not turn to idols or make for yourselves molten... gods. I am the LORD your God.

Numbers 33:52

you must drive out before you all the inhabitants of the land, destroy all their carved images and cast idols, and demolish all their high places.

Deuteronomy 9:12

And the LORD said to me, Get up and go down from here at once, for your people, whom you brought out of Egypt, have corrupted [themselves]. How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten image.

Deuteronomy 9:16

And I saw how you had sinned against the LORD your God; you had made for yourselves a molten calf. You had turned aside quickly from the way that the LORD had commanded you.

Deuteronomy 27:15

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!