נֶ֫סֶךְ
drink offering
also: libation, molten image, something poured out 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
- 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.
Every verse where H5262 appears in the Book of Psalms — 1 distinct verse. 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
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
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
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
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 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.
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 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.
