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# מַשְׂכִּית

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4906

**show-piece** — used 6 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

show-piece [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4906/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַשְׂכִּית²: n.f. show-piece, figure, imagination [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4906/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. show-piece, figure, imagination;—abs. מ׳ Lv 26:1, sf. מַשְׂכִּיּתוֹ Ez 8:12, מַשְׂכִּתוֹ Pr 18:11; pl. cstr. מַשְׂכִּיּוֹת Pr 25:11 ψ 73:7, sf. מַשְׂכִּיֹּתָם Nu 33:52;— show-piece, specif. carved figure, of idolatrous symbols, Nu 33:52 (P; ‖ צַלְמֵי מַסֵּכֹתָם), אֶכֶן מ׳ Lv 26:1 (‖ מַצֵּבָה etc.), חַדְרֵי מ׳ Ez 8:12 (\>del. Co); elsewhere מ׳ כֶּסֶף Pr 25:11 silver carvings. imagination, conceit, Pr 18:11, מ׳ לֵבָב ψ 73:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 6 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[the\] imaginations (1); carvings (1); his carved image (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 73:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.73.7/#tree)

יָ֭צָא מֵחֵ֣לֶב עֵינֵ֑מוֹ עָ֝בְר֗וּ מַשְׂכִּיּ֥וֹת לֵבָֽב׃

*Word for word:* it.comes.out from fat eye their they.pass.over \[the\].imaginations of.heart

*JPS 1917:* Their eyes stand forth from fatness; they are gone beyond the imaginations of their heart.

[Proverbs 25:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.25.11/#tree)

תַּפּוּחֵ֣י זָ֭הָב בְּמַשְׂכִּיּ֥וֹת כָּ֑סֶף דָּ֝בָ֗ר דָּבֻ֥ר עַל־אָפְנָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* apples of.gold in carvings of.silver a.word spoken on times its.proper

*JPS 1917:* A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in settings of silver.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4906.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4906/): 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).