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מַסֵּכָה H4541

H4541 is the Hebrew word מַסֵּכָה, transliterated maççêkâh and said mas-say-kaw'. The King James Version most often renders it molten image.

Word: מַסֵּכָהTransliteration: maççêkâhSaid: mas-say-kaw'Language: HebrewIn the KJV: 26 verses

What it means

properly, a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image); by implication, a libation, i.e. league; concretely a coverlet (as if poured out).

Where it comes from

from H5258 (נָסַךְ).

How the King James Version translates it

Across 26 tagged occurrences, counted from this edition's word index.

molten image 7×molten images 7×molten 4×covering 2×no molten 1×yourselves molten 1×you a molten 1×or molten image 1×also molten images 1×vail 1×

Strong's own list of renderings: covering, molten (image), vail.

Verses using מַסֵּכָה

All 26 verses, quoted in full.

Exodus 32:4 · KJV

And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 32:8 · KJV

They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Exodus 34:17 · KJV

Thou shalt make thee no molten gods.

Leviticus 19:4 · KJV

Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am the LORD your God.

Numbers 33:52 · KJV

Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:

Deuteronomy 9:16 · KJV

And I looked, and, behold, ye had sinned against the LORD your God, and had made you a molten calf: ye had turned aside quickly out of the way which the LORD had commanded you.

Deuteronomy 27:15 · KJV

Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the LORD, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

Judges 17:3 · KJV

And when he had restored the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, his mother said, I had wholly dedicated the silver unto the LORD from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

Judges 17:4 · KJV

Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

Judges 18:14 · KJV

Then answered the five men that went to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven image, and a molten image? now therefore consider what ye have to do.

Judges 18:17 · KJV

And the five men that went to spy out the land went up, and came in thither, and took the graven image, and the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image: and the priest stood in the entering of the gate with the six hundred men that were appointed with weapons of war.

Judges 18:18 · KJV

And these went into Micah’s house, and fetched the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. Then said the priest unto them, What do ye?

1 Kings 14:9 · KJV

But hast done evil above all that were before thee: for thou hast gone and made thee other gods, and molten images, to provoke me to anger, and hast cast me behind thy back:

2 Kings 17:16 · KJV

And they left all the commandments of the LORD their God, and made them molten images, even two calves, and made a grove, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served Baal.

2 Chronicles 28:2 · KJV

For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.

2 Chronicles 34:3 · KJV

For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images.

2 Chronicles 34:4 · KJV

And they brake down the altars of Baalim in his presence; and the images, that were on high above them, he cut down; and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strowed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

Nehemiah 9:18 · KJV

Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

Isaiah 25:7 · KJV

And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread over all nations.

Isaiah 28:20 · KJV

For the bed is shorter than that a man can stretch himself on it: and the covering narrower than that he can wrap himself in it.

Isaiah 30:1 · KJV

Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

Isaiah 30:22 · KJV

Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

Isaiah 42:17 · KJV

They shall be turned back, they shall be greatly ashamed, that trust in graven images, that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

Hosea 13:2 · KJV

And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols according to their own understanding, all of it the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

Nahum 1:14 · KJV

And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

Habakkuk 2:18 · KJV

What profiteth the graven image that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, and a teacher of lies, that the maker of his work trusteth therein, to make dumb idols?

Common questions

What does Strong's H4541 mean?

H4541 is the Hebrew word מַסֵּכָה (maççêkâh), meaning properly, a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image); by implication, a libation, i.e. league; concretely a coverlet (as if poured out).

How is H4541 translated in the King James Version?

The King James translators rendered it molten image (7 times), molten images (7 times), molten (4 times), covering (2 times), no molten (1 time), among others.

How many times does H4541 appear in the Bible?

מַסֵּכָה (maççêkâh) is tagged in 26 verses of the King James Version in this edition's word index.

Where does H4541 come from?

Strong's gives its derivation as: from H5258 (נָסַךְ).

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