נָסַךְ
to pour out
also: pour, offer, cast fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
See every Hiphil verb in the Hebrew Bible →
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”).
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘pour out’
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
Form
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- 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”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms 14 distinct
- Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Absolute 6 times (24%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 3 times (12%)
- Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 3 times (12%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Infinitive Construct 2 times (8%)
- Verb, Hophal, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 times (8%)
- Verb, Qal, Infinitive Construct 1 time (4%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 1 time (4%)
- Verb, Hiphil, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 time (4%)
+6 more forms (6 occurrences)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 25 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5258 appears — 24 distinct verses across 12 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.
Genesis 1 verse
Exodus 3 verses
- Exodus 25:29 יֻסַּ֖ךְ Hophal impf 3ms You shall make its dishes, its spoons, its ladles, and its bowls to pour out offerings with. Of pure gold shall you make them.
- Exodus 30:9 תִסְּכ֖וּ Qal impf 2mp You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal-offering; and you shall pour no drink-offering on it.
- Exodus 37:16 יֻסַּ֖ךְ Hophal impf 3ms He made the vessels which were on the table, its dishes, its spoons, its bowls, and its pitchers with which to pour out, of pure gold.
Numbers 1 verse
2 Samuel 1 verse
2 Kings 1 verse
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Psalms 2 verses
Proverbs 1 verse
Isaiah 4 verses
- Isaiah 29:10 נָסַ֨ךְ Qal pf 3ms For Yahweh has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and your heads, the seers, has he covered.
- Isaiah 30:1 וְ/לִ/נְסֹ֥ךְ conj + prep + Qal inf.cs Woe to the rebellious children, says Yahweh, who take counsel, but not of me; and who make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
- Isaiah 40:19 נָסַ֣ךְ Qal pf 3ms The image, a workman has cast [it], and the goldsmith overlays it with gold, and casts [for it] silver chains.
- Isaiah 44:10 נָסָ֑ךְ Qal pf 3ms Who has fashioned a god, or molten an image that is profitable for nothing?
Jeremiah 7 verses
- Jeremiah 7:18 וְ/הַסֵּ֤ךְ conj + Hiphil inf.abs The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
- Jeremiah 19:13 וְ/הַסֵּ֥ךְ conj + Hiphil inf.abs and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which are defiled, shall be as the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs they have burned incense to all the host of the sky, and have poured out drink-offerings to other gods.
- Jeremiah 32:29 וְ/הִסִּ֤כוּ conj + Hiphil pf 3cp and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
- Jeremiah 44:17 וְ/הַסֵּֽיךְ conj + Hiphil inf.abs But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
- Jeremiah 44:18 וְ/הַסֵּֽךְ conj + Hiphil inf.abs But since we left off burning incense to the queen of the sky, and pouring out drink-offerings to her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
- Jeremiah 44:19 וּ/לְ/הַסֵּ֥ךְ וְ/הַסֵּ֥ךְ conj + prep + Hiphil inf.cs conj + Hiphil inf.abs When we burned incense to the queen of the sky, and poured out drink-offerings to her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink-offerings to her, without our husbands?
- Jeremiah 44:25 וּ/לְ/הַסֵּ֥ךְ conj + prep + Hiphil inf.cs Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, the God of Israel, saying, You and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to her: establish then your vows, and perform your vows.
Ezekiel 1 verse
Hosea 1 verse
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.
The Hebrew verb נסך centers on the idea of “to pour out.” Across 4 stems, its meaning turns on the binyan (Qal, Piel). It turns up in 24 verses across 12 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Jeremiah (29%), then Isaiah and Exodus. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 35:14. Dig into 24-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H5258 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 →
- 24
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 24 distinct verses.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,282
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,282 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 24 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 24 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 15 verses · 63%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 5 verses · 21%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 17%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 3 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Pour out 5×, Poured out 3×, Cover 2×
- American Standard Version†: Pour out 3×, Poured out 2×, Thereof 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Poured out 5×, Pour out 4×, Instead he poured it out 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: He poured 3×, Poured out 3×, Out 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5258 across 25† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 15 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H5258 across 25† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 16 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5258 across 25† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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 H5258 across 24† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
9 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each.
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 9 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.
נסך I pour out (NH id., pour, cast (metals, Pi. make libation
Qal
- Pf. 3 ms. נָסַךְ Is 29:10; 40:19; נָסָ֑ךְ 44:10; Impf. 3 mpl. יִסְּכוּ. Ho 9:4; 2 ms. תִּסְּכוּ Ex 30:9; Inf. לִנְסֹךְ Is 30:1; v. ii. נסך for Is 25:7;— e.g. Isaiah 29:10
- 1. pour out (the spirit of deep sleep) c. על pers. Is 29:10. e.g. Isaiah 29:10
- 2. pour out libations, c. acc. נֶסֶךְ Ex 30:9 (P); מַסֵּכָה Is 30:1; יַיִן Ho 9:4. e.g. Exodus 30:9
- 3. cast metal images, c. acc. פֶּסֶל Is 40:19; 44:10. e.g. Isaiah 40:19
Piel
- Impf. יְנַסֵּךְ 1 Ch 11:18 pour out as libation, c. acc. מַיִם + ליהוה (= 2 S 23:16 Hiph.). e.g. 1 Chronicles 11:18
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 mpl. הִסִּכוּ Je 32:39; Impf. 3 ms. וַיַּסֵּךְ Gn 35:14 + 2 times; 1 s. אַסִּיךְ ψ 16:4; 3 mpl. וַיַסִּיכוּ Ez 20:28; Imv. הַסֵּךְ Nu 28:7; Inf. abs. הַסֵּיךְ Je 44:17; הַסֵּךְ Je 7:18 + 3 times; cstr. לְהַסֵּךְ Je 44:19, 25 (Köi. 309);—pour out libations, c. acc. נֶסֶךְ Gn 35:14 (E), 2 K 16:13; Nu 28:7 (P), מַיִם 2 S 23:16 ליהוה; elsewhere, נְסָכִים to other gods Je 7:18; 19:13; 32:29; 44:17, 18, 19(×2), 25, 19 Ez 20:28 ψ 16:4. Hop. Impf. 3 ms. יֻסַּךְ be poured out, Ex 25:29; 37:16, of holy wine, c. בְ of vessels. e.g. Jeremiah 32:39
נסך II weave (Arabic نَسَجَ has same meaning)
Qal
- Pt. pass. f. נְסוּכָה Is 25:7; perhaps also Inf. cstr. לִנְסֹךְ 30:1; on both v. foll. e.g. Isaiah 25:7
נסך III set, install (Assyrian nasâku, id., whence nasîku, prince, DlHWB 472
Qal
- Pf. 1 s. נָסַכְתִּי מַלְכִּי עַל־צִיּוֹן ψ 2:6 I have installed my king upon Zion. e.g. Psalms 2:6
Niphal
- Pf. 1 s. נִסַּכְתִּי Pr 8:23 I was installed (of Wisdom). e.g. Proverbs 8:23
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
I. vb. pour out (NH id., pour, cast (metals, Pi. make libation; Ph. נסך cast gold or iron Lzb323f.; 𝔗 נְסַךְ make libation; Syriac ܢܣܰܟ pour out; Arabic نَسَكَ, orig. be-pour, water NöZMG xli (1887), 719 (rare), usually worship Lane3032 (cf. RSSem. i. 213; 2d ed. 229), i.e. pour out blood of victim, pour out wine WeHeid. 2, 114, 118, 142);—
II. vb. weave (Arabic نَسَجَ has same meaning);—
III. vb. set, install (Assyrian nasâku, id., whence nasîku, prince, DlHWB 472; v. also Muss-ArnoltHbr. vi. 89, R. 17 and reff.);—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive 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.
נָסַךְ
- (b. h.) to pour, cast. Y. Ber. I, 2ᵈ top, v. מָסַךְ II.
- 1. to offer a libation. Succ. IV, 9 ולִמְנַסֵּךְ אומרים לו וכ׳ and they said to him who offered the libation (of water), raise thy hand. Ib. שפעם אחת ני׳ אחד וכ׳ for once it happened, that a priest poured the libation out at his feet. Snh. 62ᵇ זיבח … וני׳ וכ׳ if one sacrificed, burnt incense, and offered a libation (to an idol) &c.; a. fr.—Cant. R. to IV, 12 מֵאָן היו ישראל מנטרים כל וכ׳ (read: מְנַסְּכִים, v. Matt. K. a. l.) whence did the Israelites take wine for their festive gatherings during the forty years &c.?
- 2. to make wine forbidden (יֵין נֶסֶךְ) by the manipulation of a gentile suspected of dedicating it to idolatrous purposes. Keth. 27ᵃ; Sabb. 41ᵃ אין פנאי לנַסֵּךְ they do not take the time to manipulate the wine. Ab. Zar. 56ᵇ (in Chald. dict.) והא קא מנסך בידיה but might he not dedicate it to idolatry by putting his hand into it?; והא קא מנסך ברגל might he not do it with his foot (while treading the wine)? Gitt. V, 4 המנסך he who does damage to his neighbor by touching his wine for idolatrous purposes (v. interpret. ib. 52ᵇ). Y. Ab. Zar. IV, 44ᵃ bot. מנסך כל הבור he causes all the wine in the pit to be forbidden; a. fr.
- to be offered as libation, to be poured on the altar. Pes. 22ᵃ כמים הנִיסָּסִין like the water which is poured on the altar, opp. הנשפכין which is poured out at the foot of the altar.
- 1. same. Ib. המִתְנַּסְּכִים; a. fr.
- 2. to be made forbidden (as dedicated to idolatry). Y. Ab. Zar. l. c. נתנ׳ הבור וכ׳ if the wine in the pit has been manipulated and become forbidden, the jet of wine poured into the pit becomes forbidden (affecting the wine in the vessel).
נְסַךְ
- , esp. to offer a libation. Targ. Cant. IV, 15; a. e.
- as preced. Pi. Targ. Ex. XXX, 9; a. fr.—Sabb. 41ᵃ לא מְנַסְּכֵי they will not take the time to manipulate &c., v. preced.
- as preced. Hithpa. Targ. Num. XXVIII, 7; a. e.—Ab. Zar. 71ᵇ קמא קמא אינ׳ ליה every drop as it comes out becomes forbidden.
נֶסֶךְ
- preced.)
- 1. libation. Ex. R. s. 15 יֵין נ׳ wine from which a libation has been poured on the altar.—Pl. נְסָכִים, נְסָכִין; constr. נִסְכֶי, נִי׳. Zeb. IX, 1 הנ׳ ירדו the libations brought on the altar illegally, may be taken down. Tosef. ib. V, 1; Men. 15ᵇ, a. e. נסכי בהמה the libations connected with an animal sacrifice. Ib. II, 4 ונְסָכָיו and the libations belonging thereto; a. v. fr.
- 2. יֵין נ׳ (יין שנתנסך לע"ז; abbrev. י"נ) wine known (or suspected) to have been manipulated by an idolater, wine forbidden to Jews because of such (known or suspected) manipulation. Ab. Zar. IV, 8 (55ᵃ) ואינו נעשה י׳'נ וכ׳ (Bab. ed. עושה) it does not become (the gentile does not make it) forbidden wine until &c. Ib. V, 1 לעשות עמו ביין נ׳ to work with him in wine dedicated to an idol. Ib. 2 יין נ׳ שנפל וכ׳ if forbidden wine was poured over grapes. Ib. 74ᵃ bot. יין נ׳ really idolatrous wine, opp. סתם יין suspected; a. fr.
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 22 distinct written forms H5258 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.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H5258, 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
- מסכה maççêkâh H4541 molten image
- נסיך nᵉçîyk H5257 libation
- נסך nâçak H5259 to weave
- נסך nᵉçak H5260 to pour out
- נסך neçek H5262 drink offering
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 6 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 22 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 24 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 35:14
- Exodus 25:29
- Numbers 28:7
- 2 Samuel 23:16
- 2 Kings 16:13
- 1 Chronicles 11:18
- Psalms 2:6
- Proverbs 8:23
- Isaiah 29:10
- Jeremiah 7:18
- Ezekiel 20:28
- Hosea 9:4
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.
