מָסַךְ
to mix
also: mingle, produce by mixing fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘pour’
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
Person
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular 2 times (40%)
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 1 time (20%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 time (20%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H4537 appears — 5 distinct verses across 3 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Psalms 1 verse
Proverbs 2 verses
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 5:22 לִ/מְסֹ֥ךְ prep + Qal inf.cs Woe to those who are mighty to drink wine, And champions at mixing strong drink;
- Isaiah 19:14 מָסַ֥ךְ Qal pf 3ms Yahweh has mixed a spirit of perverseness in the midst of her; and they have caused Egypt to go astray in every work of it, as a drunken man staggers in his vomit.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“to mix” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb מסך (mâçak). A scarce word — 5 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Proverbs, which alone accounts for 40% of its uses. First canonically at Psalms 102:9, it enters the text early. Not a single-sense word: its full sense range also takes in “mingle” and “produce by mixing”. See the sense tree, 5-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4537 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 5 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 60%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 40%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Hath mingled 1×, I have mingled 1×, Mingle 1×
- American Standard Version: Hath mingled 1×, I have mingled 1×, Mingle 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mixed 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Has mixed 1×, I have mixed 1×, I mix 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4537 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4537 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4537 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4537 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. מ׳ Is 19:14; מָֽסְכָה Pr 9:2; מָסָ֑כְתִּי Pr 9:5 ψ 102:10; Inf. cstr. מְסֹךְ Is 5:22;— e.g. Isaiah 19:14
- 1. pour, only fig., מ׳ בְּקִרְבָּהּ רוּחַ עִוְעִים Is 19:14 (subj. י׳); e.g. Isaiah 19:14
- 2. 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). e.g. Isaiah 5:22
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
vb. mix, produce by mixing (cf. perhaps מזג, מֶוֶג BaES 33, 51);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primary root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מָסַךְ I
- to temper, mix wine (cmp. מָזַג). Ab. Zar. 58ᵇ, v. מָזַג. Num. R. s. 10 יין מָסְכָה וכ׳ Eve mixed wine for Adam. Ib. היו מוֹסְכִים יין וכ׳ they mixed strong with light wine; a. e.
מָסַךְ II
- to cast (metal). Y. Ber. I, 2ᵈ top; Gen. R. s. 12, end מוֹסֵךְ Ar. (ed. Y. Ber. נוֹסֵךְ; Gen. R. מוֹצֵק), v. בּוּלָס.—[Yalk. Ex. 165 ממסכת, read מֵסֶכֶת, v. סוּךְ.]
מֶסֶךְ
- סָכַךְ II to be clear; cmp. מוג) clarified, mixed drink. Ex. R. s. 42, end (play on מ̇ס̇כ̇ה̇, Ex. XXXII, 8) ק"כ קנטרוין מנין מ̇ס̇"ך̇ שהוא מעכיר ה׳ the gold in the calf weighed 120 centenaria, corresponding to the numerical value of mesekh (drink) which removes Hé (the Lord, i.e. leads to godlessness). e.g. Exodus 32:8
מָסָךְ
- web, screen, curtain. Num. R. s. 6 מָסַךְ שער וכ׳ the curtain for the gate of the court. Yalk. Ex. 372; a. e.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H4537 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָסָֽכְתִּי | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 1st Person, Common, Singular | Proverbs 9:5 | 2 |
| לִ/מְסֹ֥ךְ | Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct | Isaiah 5:22 | 1 |
| מָסְכָ֣ה | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular | Proverbs 9:2 | 1 |
| מָסַ֥ךְ | Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular | Isaiah 19:14 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4537, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
