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# מָסַךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4537

**mix** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

mix [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4537/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָסַךְ: vb. mix, produce by mixing [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4537/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. mix, produce by mixing (cf. perhaps מזג, מֶוֶג BaES 33, 51);— Pf. 3 ms. מ׳ Is 19:14; מָֽסְכָה Pr 9:2; מָסָ֑כְתִּי Pr 9:5 ψ 102:10; Inf. cstr. מְסֹךְ Is 5:22;— pour, only fig., מ׳ בְּקִרְבָּהּ רוּחַ עִוְעִים Is 19:14 (subj. י׳); mix, c. acc. שֵׁכָר Is 5:22; i.e. make a choice drink by mixing with spices, etc. (mixing with water came later, cf. 2 Macc 15:39) Löwp. 419 Frä 162 f. 171 f. NowArch. 1, 120 BenzArch. 95; obj. יַיִן fig., subj. wisdom Pr 9:2, 5; שִׁקֻּוַי בִּבְכִי מָסָ֑כְתִּי ψ 102:10 my drink with weeping have I mixed (v. Assyrian \[akâl\] ul âkul, bikîtum kurmati, mê ul aštî, dîmtu maštîtî ZimBP34).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I have mixed (1); \[which\] I have mixed (1); he has mixed (1).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 9:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.2/#tree)

טָבְחָ֣ה טִ֭בְחָהּ מָסְכָ֣ה יֵינָ֑הּ אַ֝֗ף עָֽרְכָ֥ה שֻׁלְחָנָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* she.has.slaughtered slaughter her she.has.mixed wine her also she.has.arranged table her

*JPS 1917:* She hath prepared her meat, she hath mingled her wine; she hath also furnished her table.

[Proverbs 9:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.9.5/#tree)

לְ֭כוּ לַחֲמ֣וּ בְֽלַחֲמִ֑י וּ֝שְׁת֗וּ בְּיַ֣יִן מָסָֽכְתִּי׃

*Word for word:* come eat in food my and drink in.\[the\] wine \[which\].I.have.mixed

*JPS 1917:* 'Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have mingled.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4537.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4537/): 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).