נָסַךְnâçak

נָסַךְ: pour out

Pronunciation: naw-sak' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5258

Meanings

Qal

1. pour out (Isaiah 29:10)

2. pour out libations (Exodus 30:9; Isaiah 30:1; Hosea 9:4)

3. cast metal images (Isaiah 40:19; Isaiah 44:10)

Pi`el: pour out as libation (1 Chronicles 11:18; 2 Samuel 23:16)

Hiph`il: pour out libations (Jeremiah 32:39; Genesis 35:14; Psalms 16:4)

Hoph`al: be poured out (Exodus 25:29; Exodus 37:16)

נָסַךְ: set, install

Qal: have installed (Psalms 2:6)

Niph`al: was installed (Proverbs 8:23)

נָסַךְ: pour out

Pa`el: offer in sacrifice, (more generally) (Daniel 2:46)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 25 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 35:14 Jacob set up a stone pillar to mark the place where God had spoken to him. Then he poured wine over it as an offering to God and anointed the pillar with olive oil.
  • Exodus 25:29 Make special containers of pure gold for the table—bowls, ladles, pitchers, and jars—to be used in pouring out liquid offerings.
  • Exodus 30:9 Do not offer any unholy incense on this altar, or any burnt offerings, grain offerings, or liquid offerings.
  • Exodus 37:16 Then he made special containers of pure gold for the table—bowls, ladles, jars, and pitchers—to be used in pouring out liquid offerings.
  • Numbers 28:7 Along with it you must present the proper liquid offering of one quart of alcoholic drink with each lamb, poured out in the Holy Place as an offering to the Lord.
  • 2 Samuel 23:16 So the Three broke through the Philistine lines, drew some water from the well by the gate in Bethlehem, and brought it back to David. But he refused to drink it. Instead, he poured it out as an offering to the Lord.
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).