נֶ֫סֶךְ
drink offering
also: libation, molten image, something poured out fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 21 times (33%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 21 times (33%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 12 times (19%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 10 times (16%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 64 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H5262 appears — 62 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 29:40 וְ/נֵ֕סֶךְ conj + n c ms and with the one lamb a tenth part of an ephah of fine flour mixed with the fourth part of a hin of beaten oil, and the fourth part of a hin of wine for a drink-offering.
- Exodus 29:41 וּ/כְ/נִסְכָּ/הּ֙ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs The other lamb you shall offer at evening, and shall do to it according to the meal-offering of the morning, and according to its drink-offering, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Exodus 30:9 וְ/נֵ֕סֶךְ conj + n c ms You shall offer no strange incense on it, nor burnt offering, nor meal-offering; and you shall pour no drink-offering on it.
Leviticus 3 verses
- Leviticus 23:13 וְ/נִסְכֹּ֥/ה conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The meal offering with it shall be two tenth parts of an ephah of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire to Yahweh for a sweet savor; and the drink offering with it shall be of wine, the fourth part of a hin.
- Leviticus 23:18 וְ/נִסְכֵּי/הֶ֔ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp You shall present with the bread seven lambs without blemish a year old, one young bull, and two rams. Yhey shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their meal offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of a sweet aroma to Yahweh.
- Leviticus 23:37 וּ/נְסָכִ֖ים conj + n c mp "'These are the appointed feasts of Yahweh, which you shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire to Yahweh, a burnt offering, and a meal offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, each on its own day;
Numbers 33 verses
- Numbers 4:7 הַ/נָּ֑סֶךְ ptcl def.art + n c ms On the table of show bread they shall spread a blue cloth, and put on it the dishes, the spoons, the bowls, and the cups with which to pour out; and the continual bread shall be on it.
- Numbers 6:15 וְ/נִסְכֵּי/הֶֽם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings.
- Numbers 6:17 נִסְכּֽ/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh, with the basket of unleavened bread. The priest shall offer also its meal offering, and its drink offering.
- Numbers 15:5 לַ/נֶּ֨סֶךְ֙ prep det + n c ms and wine for the drink-offering, the fourth part of a hin, shall you prepare with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, for each lamb.
- Numbers 15:7 לַ/נֶּ֖סֶךְ prep det + n c ms and for the drink-offering you shall offer the third part of a hin of wine, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Numbers 15:10 לַ/נֶּ֖סֶךְ prep det + n c ms and you shall offer for the drink-offering half a hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Numbers 15:24 וְ/נִסְכּ֖/וֹ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms then it shall be, if it be done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bull for a burnt offering, for a sweet savor to Yahweh, with the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it, according to the ordinance, and one male goat for a sin-offering.
- Numbers 28:7 וְ/נִסְכּ/וֹ֙ נֶ֥סֶךְ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c ms cs The drink-offering of it shall be the fourth part of a hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shall you pour out a drink-offering of strong drink to Yahweh.
- Numbers 28:8 וּ/כְ/נִסְכּ/וֹ֙ conj + prep + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms The other lamb shall you offer at even: as the meal-offering of the morning, and as the drink-offering of it, you shall offer it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh.
- Numbers 28:9 וְ/נִסְכּֽ/וֹ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms On the Sabbath day two he-lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenth parts [of an ephah] of fine flour for a meal-offering, mixed with oil, and the drink-offering of it:
- Numbers 28:10 וְ/נִסְכָּֽ/הּ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering of it.
- Numbers 28:14 וְ/נִסְכֵּי/הֶ֗ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Their drink-offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, and the third part of a hin for the ram, and the fourth part of a hin for a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
- Numbers 28:15 וְ/נִסְכּֽ/וֹ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms One male goat for a sin-offering to Yahweh; it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink-offering of it.
- Numbers 28:24 וְ/נִסְכּֽ/וֹ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms After this manner you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a sweet savor to Yahweh: it shall be offered besides the continual burnt offering, and the drink-offering of it.
- Numbers 28:31 וְ/נִסְכֵּי/הֶֽם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, you shall offer them (they shall be to you without blemish), and their drink-offerings.
- Numbers 29:6 וְ/נִסְכֵּי/הֶ֖ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp besides the burnt offering of the new moon, and the meal-offering of it, and the continual burnt offering and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings, according to their ordinance, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Numbers 29:11 וְ/נִסְכֵּי/הֶֽם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the sin-offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings.
- Numbers 29:16 וְ/נִסְכָּֽ/הּ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.
- Numbers 29:18 וְ/נִסְכֵּי/הֶ֡ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
- Numbers 29:19 וְ/נִסְכֵּי/הֶֽם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and their drink-offerings.
- Numbers 29:21 וְ/נִסְכֵּי/הֶ֡ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
- Numbers 29:22 וְ/נִסְכָּֽ/הּ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.
- Numbers 29:24 וְ/נִסְכֵּי/הֶ֡ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
- Numbers 29:25 וְ/נִסְכָּֽ/הּ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.
- Numbers 29:27 וְ/נִסְכֵּי/הֶ֡ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
- Numbers 29:28 וְ/נִסְכָּֽ/הּ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.
- Numbers 29:30 וְ/נִסְכֵּי/הֶ֡ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
- Numbers 29:31 וּ/נְסָכֶֽי/הָ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offerings of it.
- Numbers 29:33 וְ/נִסְכֵּ/הֶ֡ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;
- Numbers 29:34 וְ/נִסְכָּֽ/הּ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs and one male goat for a sin-offering; besides the continual burnt offering, the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.
- Numbers 29:37 וְ/נִסְכֵּי/הֶ֗ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance:
- Numbers 29:38 וְ/נִסְכָּֽ/הּ conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 3fs and one male goat for a sin-offering, besides the continual burnt offering, and the meal-offering of it, and the drink-offering of it.
- Numbers 29:39 וּ/לְ/נִסְכֵּי/כֶ֖ם conj + prep + n c mp cs + sfx pers 2mp These you shall offer to Yahweh in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your freewill-offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meal-offerings, and for your drink-offerings, and for your peace-offerings.
2 Kings 2 verses
- 2 Kings 16:13 נִסְכּ֑/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms He burnt his burnt offering and his meal-offering, and poured his drink-offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace-offerings, on the altar.
- 2 Kings 16:15 וְ/נִסְכֵּי/הֶ֔ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meal-offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his meal-offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meal-offering, and their drink-offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: but the brazen altar shall be for me to inquire by.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
2 Chronicles 1 verse
Psalms 1 verse
Isaiah 3 verses
- Isaiah 41:29 נִסְכֵּי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp Behold, all of them, their works are vanity [and] nothing; their molten images are wind and confusion.
- Isaiah 48:5 וְ/נִסְכִּ֖/י conj + n c ms cs + sfx pers 1cs therefore I have declared it to you from of old; before it came to pass I shown it you; lest you should say, My idol has done them, and my engraved image, and my molten image, has commanded them.
- Isaiah 57:6 נֶ֨סֶךְ֙ n c ms Among the smooth [stones] of the valley is your portion; they, they are your lot; even to them have you poured a drink-offering, you have offered an offering. Shall I be appeased for these things?
Jeremiah 9 verses
- Jeremiah 7:18 נְסָכִים֙ n c mp 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 10:14 נִסְכּ֖/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
- Jeremiah 19:13 נְסָכִ֖ים n c mp 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 נְסָכִים֙ n c mp 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 נְסָכִים֒ n c mp 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 נְסָכִ֖ים n c mp 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 נְסָכִ֑ים נְסָכִֽים n c mp n c mp 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 נְסָכִ֑ים n c mp 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.
- Jeremiah 51:17 נִסְכּ֖/וֹ n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms Every man is become brutish [and is] without knowledge; every goldsmith is disappointed by his image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Ezekiel 2 verses
- Ezekiel 20:28 נִסְכֵּי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp For when I had brought them into the land, which I swore to give to them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings.
- Ezekiel 45:17 וְ/הַ/נֵּסֶךְ֒ conj + ptcl def.art + n c ms It shall be the prince's part to give the burnt offerings, and the meal-offerings, and the drink-offerings, in the feasts, and on the new moons, and on the Sabbaths, in all the appointed feasts of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin-offering, and the meal-offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace-offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.
Joel 3 verses
- Joel 1:9 וָ/נֶ֖סֶךְ conj + n c ms The meal offering and the drink offering are cut off from Yahweh's house. The priests, Yahweh's ministers, mourn.
- Joel 1:13 וָ/נָֽסֶךְ conj + n c ms Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests! Wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God, For the meal offering and the drink offering are withheld from your God's house.
- Joel 2:14 וָ/נֶ֔סֶךְ conj + n c ms Who knows? He may turn and relent, And leave a blessing behind him, Even a meal offering and a drink offering to Yahweh, your God.
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 noun נסך centers on the idea of “drink offering.” Numbers dominates its distribution — 33 of 62 verses. Spanning 62 verses in 12 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Genesis 35:14, it then recurs through the corpus. Alongside “drink offering” the lexicon also lists “libation”, “molten image”, and “something poured out” — part of its full sense range. Dig into 62-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
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About this word
Strong's H5262 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 →
- 62
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 62 distinct verses.
- 12 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 12 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #607
- by frequency
- Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 607 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 62 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 62 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 40 verses · 65%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 19 verses · 31%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 3 verses · 5%
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: Drink offering 28×, Drink offerings 28×, Molten image 3×
- American Standard Version: Drink-offerings 24×, Drink-offering 13×, Thereof 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Drink offering 26×, Drink offerings 22×, Molten images 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Drink offering 27×, Drink offerings 25×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H5262 across 64 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 H5262 across 57 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.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H5262 across 56 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 8 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H5262 across 59 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
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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 2 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.
- 1. 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. e.g. Genesis 35:14
- 2. 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. e.g. Isaiah 41:29
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
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.;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נסך (nâçak) (H5258) — to pour out.
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.
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Forms in the corpus
The 40 distinct written forms H5262 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’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 H5262, 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.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- מסכה maççêkâh H4541 molten image
- נסיך nᵉçîyk H5257 libation
- נסך nâçak H5259 to weave
- נסך nᵉçak H5260 to pour out
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 60 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 62 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 29:40
- Leviticus 23:13
- Numbers 4:7
- 2 Kings 16:13
- 1 Chronicles 29:21
- 2 Chronicles 29:35
- Psalms 16:4
- Isaiah 41:29
- Jeremiah 7:18
- Ezekiel 20:28
- Joel 1:9
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.
