מַסֶּ֫כֶת
web
‘web’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H4545 appears — 2 distinct verses across 1 book. 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.
Judges 2 verses
- Judges 16:13 הַ/מַּסָּֽכֶת ptcl def.art + n c fs Delilah said to Samson, Hitherto you have mocked me, and told me lies: tell me with which you might be bound. He said to her, If you weave the seven locks of my head with the web.
- Judges 16:14 הַ/מַּסָּֽכֶת ptcl def.art + n c fs She fastened it with the pin, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. He awakened out of his sleep, and plucked away the pin of the beam, and the web.
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.
מסכת (maççeketh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “web.” A scarce word — 2 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Judges, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. Debuting at Judges 16:13, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4545 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 →
- 2
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 2 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,807
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,807 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 2 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Judges 2 verses 100%
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 2 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 100%
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: Web 2×
- American Standard Version: Web 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Web 1×, Web of a loom 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Warp 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4545 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4545 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4545 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4545 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- web
- web of unfinished stuff on a loom
Word origin
Derived from נסך (nâçak) (H5259) — to weave.
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.
מַסֶּכֶת
- 1. web on the loom. Ohol. VIII, 4 מ׳ הפרוסה the spread web, i.e. the web hanging from the transverse beam (vestis pendens, v. Sm. Ant. s. v. Tela). Kel. XXI, 1 נפש המ׳ the woof, opp. to שתי עומד the warp of the standing loom. Midr. Till. to Ps. XXXVIII; Yalk. Ps. 733 אנו המ׳ וכ׳ we are the web, and Thou the weaver; a. e.
- 2. (cmp. Lat. textus) construction, Talmudic treatise. Ruth R. to II, 9 (play on וַיַּסֵּךְ, II Sam. XXIII, 16) עשאה מ׳ וקבעה וכ׳ (not מסכתא) he (David) constructed it and fixed it as a rule for future generations that the king forces the road &c. (v. Snh. II, 4); Midr. Sam. ch. XX; Y. Snh. II, 20ᶜ top. Sabb. 114ᵃ, v. כַּלָּה; a. fr.—Pl. מַסֶּכְתּוֹת. Midr. Till. to Ps. CIV, 25 אלו המ׳ דבר וכ׳ those are the systematic collections of Bar Ḳ. &c. Num. R. s. 18 ששים מ׳ sixty Talmudic treatises [editions, however, count sixty-three]; Tanḥ. Korah 12; Cant. R. to VI, 9 (not … תיות); a. fr. e.g. 2 Samuel 23:16
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.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 2 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 2 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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