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# אָסוּךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H610

**flask** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

flask [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/610/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

אָסוּךְ²: flask [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/610/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] flask (for pouring, anointing);—appar. cstr. אָ׳ שֶׁמֶן 2 K 4:2, cf. Köii. 1, 139, 401, 494; yet form unusual and text dub.; Gr מֶסֶךְ, or מִסְכָּה; Klo פַּךְ.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a jar (1).

## In the verses

[2 Kings 4:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2KI.4.2/#tree)

וַיֹּ֨אמֶר אֵלֶ֤יהָ אֱלִישָׁע֙ מָ֣ה אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־לָּ֔ךְ הַגִּ֣ידִי לִ֔י מַה־יֶּשׁ־לָ֖ךְ בַּבָּ֑יִת וַתֹּ֗אמֶר אֵ֣ין לְשִׁפְחָתְךָ֥ כֹל֙ בַּבַּ֔יִת כִּ֖י אִם־אָס֥וּךְ שָֽׁמֶן׃

*Word for word:* and he.said to her Elisha what? will.I.do for you tell to me what? \[is\].there \[belonging\].to you in the house and she.said there.\[belongs\].not to maidservant your anything in the house (dm) (if) a.jar of.oil

*JPS 1917:* And Elisha said unto her: 'What shall I do for thee? tell me; what hast thou in the house?' And she said: 'Thy handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/610.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1488/610/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).