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# מַסֵּכָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4541

**molten metal** — used 26 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

molten metal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4541/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַסֵּכָה³: n.f. libation molten metal image [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4541/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. 1. libation; 2. molten metal, or image;—מ׳ Ex 32:4 +; cstr. מַסֵּכַת Is 30:22; pl. מַסֵּכוֹת 1 K 14:9 +; sf. מַסֵּכֹתָם Nu 33:52;— libation, with covenant sacrif. in making covenant Is 30:1 (= 1. נֶסֶךְ; see, however, sub II. \[נָסַךְ\]). molten metal, or image: עֵגֶל מַסֵּכָה molten calf Ex 32:4, 8; Dt 9:16; Ne 9:18, cf. ψ 106:19; אֱלֹהֵי מַסֵּכָה molten gods Ex 34:17; Lv 19:4; צַלְמֵי מ׳ Nu 33:52; פֶּסֶל וּמַסֵּכָה Dt 27:15; Ju 17:3, 4; 18:14; Na 1:14; 2 Ch 34:3, 4, elsewhere (variously) Dt 9:12; Ju 18:17, 18; 1 K 14:9; 2 K 17:16; 2 Ch 28:2; Is 30:22; 42:17; Ho 13:2; Hb 2:18.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 26 of its verses cited, 4 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a molten image (10); of molten metal (4); image (2).

## In the verses

[Exodus 34:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.34.17/#tree)

אֱלֹהֵ֥י מַסֵּכָ֖ה לֹ֥א תַעֲשֶׂה־לָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* gods of.molten.metal not you.must.make for yourself

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

[Psalms 106:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.106.19/#tree)

יַעֲשׂוּ־עֵ֥גֶל בְּחֹרֵ֑ב וַ֝יִּשְׁתַּחֲו֗וּ לְמַסֵּכָֽה׃

*Word for word:* they.made a.calf at Horeb and they.bowed.down to a.molten.image

*JPS 1917:* They made a calf in Horeb, and worshipped a molten image.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4541/): 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).