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# נֶסֶךְ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5262

**drink-offering** — used 60 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

drink-offering [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5262/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

נֶ֫סֶךְ: n.m. drink-offering [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5262/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. drink-offering;—abs. נ׳ Gn 35:14 + 6 times; נֵ֫סֶךְ Ex 29:40; 30:9; Ez 45:17; נָ֑סֶךְ Nu 4:7; Jo 1:13; cstr. נֶסֶךְ Nu 28:7; sf. נִסְכִּי Is 48:5, etc.; pl. נְסָכִים Je 7:18 + 9 times; sf. נְסָכֶיהָ Nu 29:31, נִסְכֵּיכֶם v 39, etc.;— drink-offering, c. עַל (on Jacob’s מַצֵּבָה at Bethel) Gn 35:14 (E); elsewhere in worship of י׳ only P and related doc.; once of vessels of holy table קְשׂוֹת הַנָּ֑סֶךְ Nu 4:7; elsewhere in classifications Lv 23:37; Nu 29:39, usually offered with the עלה Ex 29:40; Lv 23:13, 18; Nu 15:5, 7, 10, 24; 28:7, 14, 31; 29:18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 37, especially עוֹלַת הַתָּמִיד 28:9, 10, 15, 24; 29:6, 11, 16, 19, 22, 25, 28, 31, 34, 38; מִנְחַת הַבֹּקֶר Ex 29:41; Nu 28:8; but sometimes also with (שׁלמים) זבח 6:15, 17; 15:15, 10; usually + מִנְחָה; elsewhere only 1 Ch 29:21; 2 Ch 29:35; Ez 45:17; מִנְחָה וָנ׳ Jo 1:9, 13; 2:14. Offered to other gods 2 K 6:13, 15; Is 57:6; Je 7:18; 19:13; 32:29; 44:17, 18, 19(×2), 25; Ez 20:28 ψ 16:4. molten images, Is 41:29; 48:5; Je 10:14; 51:17.—Combinations are: נָסַךְ נ׳, הִסִּיךְ נ׳ (see vb.); שָׁפַךְ נ׳ Is 57:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 56 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: its drink (16); their drink (16); drink offerings (9).

## In the verses

[Numbers 28:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.28.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.28.10/#tree)

עֹלַ֥ת שַׁבַּ֖ת בְּשַׁבַּתּ֑וֹ עַל־עֹלַ֥ת הַתָּמִ֖יד וְנִסְכָּֽהּ׃ס

*Word for word:* the.burnt.offering of.the.sabbath on sabbath its \[is\].to the.burnt.offering of.(the) continuity and its.drink offering

*JPS 1917:* This is the burnt-offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering thereof.

[Joel 1:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.1.9/#tree)

הָכְרַ֥ת מִנְחָ֛ה וָנֶ֖סֶךְ מִבֵּ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה אָֽבְלוּ֙ הַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים מְשָׁרְתֵ֖י יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* it.has.been.cut.off grain.offering and drink.offering from the.house of.Yahweh they.are.in.mourning the priests \[who\].serve (of).Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* The meal-offering and the drink-offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests mourn, even the LORD'S ministers.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5262.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1504/5262/): 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).