H5262 H5262
Drink offering or libation poured out in worship; also a cast metal image or molten idol.
Two homonymous nouns sharing the same consonantal form nesekh but arising from different verbal roots. The far more common meaning is a libation -- wine or another liquid poured out alongside burnt offerings and grain offerings in Israelite sacrificial worship, meticulously prescribed throughout Leviticus and Numbers. The second meaning, from the root nasakh ('to pour, cast metal'), refers to an idol made by pouring molten metal into a mold. Isaiah uses the term with biting sarcasm: the idols and their cast images are nothing but wind and emptiness (Isa 41:29), and the prophet's own people dare claim a molten image predicted future events (Isa 48:5).
Senses
1. drink offering, libation — A drink offering or libation, a liquid (usually wine) poured out as part of sacrificial worship. This sense accounts for 60 of 64 occurrences, deeply embedded in the Priestly legislation of Numbers 15 and 28-29. Multilingual evidence uniformly points to cultic liquid offerings: German Trankopfer ('drink-sacrifice'), French boire-offrande ('drink-offering'), and Spanish libacion all specify ritual pouring. Jacob pours a nesekh on his memorial pillar at Bethel (Gen 35:14), and Joel laments that the grain offering and drink offering are cut off from the house of the LORD (Joel 1:9, 13). 60×
AR["وَ-سَكَائِبَهُمْ", "وَسَكَائِبُهُمْ", "وَسَكَائِبِهَا", "وَسَكِيبَهُ", "وَسَكِيبُهُ", "وَسَكِيبِهَا"]·ben["এবং-তাদের-পেয়-উৎসর্গ", "এবং-তাদের-পেয়-নৈবেদ্য।", "এবং-তার-পেয়-উৎসর্গ", "এবং-নিসকেহা", "এবং-নিসকেহেম"]·DE["und-ihr-trinken-Opfergaben", "und-sein-trinken-Opfergabe", "und-sein-trinken-Opfergaben"]·EN["and-its-drink-offering", "and-its-drink-offerings", "and-their-drink-offerings"]·FR["et-leur-boire-offrandes", "et-son-boire-offrande", "et-son-boire-offrandes"]·heb["ו-נסכה", "ו-נסכהם", "ו-נסכו", "ו-נסכיה", "ו-נסכיהם"]·HI["और-अर्घ-इनके", "और-अर्घ-इसका", "और-अर्घ-उनके"]·ID["dan-korban-curahan-mereka", "dan-korban-curahnya", "dan-persembahan-curahan-mereka"]·IT["e-loro-bere-offerte", "e-suo-bere-offerta", "e-suo-bere-offerte"]·jav["Lan-unjukan-unjukanipun", "Lan-unjukanipun", "lan-pisungsung-unjukan-ipun", "lan-unjukan-unjukanipun", "lan-unjukanipun"]·KO["그리고-그-전제", "그리고-그-전제-는", "그리고-그것들의-전제니라", "그리고-그것들의-전제를", "그리고-그것의-전제니라", "그리고-그녀의-전제", "그리고-그들의-전제들", "그리고-그들의-전제들-은"]·PT["E-libação-sua", "E-libações-deles", "e-libação-sua", "e-libações-dela", "e-libações-deles"]·RU["и-возлияние-его", "и-возлияния-его", "и-возлияния-её", "и-возлияния-их"]·ES["Y-libaciones-de-ellos", "Y-libación-de-él", "y-libaciones-de-ella", "y-libaciones-de-ellos", "y-libación-de-ella", "y-libación-de-él"]·SW["Unskihm", "na-kinywaji-chake", "na-vinywaji-vyake"]·TR["ve-dökme-sunularını", "ve-dökülen-sunu-onun", "ve-dökülen-sunuları-onların"]·urd["اور-اُن-کے-تپاون", "اور-تپائین-اس-کی", "اور-تپائینیں-اس-کی", "اور-تپائینیں-اُن-کی"]
2. cast image, molten idol — A cast image or molten idol formed by pouring metal into a mold. Though sharing the same consonantal spelling, this sense derives from the root meaning 'to cast, pour out metal.' Appearing four times in prophetic condemnation, it is rendered distinctly in several languages: Spanish imagen-fundida ('cast image'), English 'molten image,' and Hindi dhali-hui-murti ('cast idol'). Isaiah 41:29 declares that idols and their cast images are wind and confusion, while Jeremiah 10:14 and 51:17 pronounce every goldsmith shamed by his nesekh, for his molten image is a lie. 4×
AR["مَسْبُوكُهُ", "مَسْكُوبَاتُهُمْ", "وَ-مَسْبُوكِي"]·ben["এবং-আমার-ঢালাই-মূর্তি", "ঢালাই-তার", "তাদের-ঢালাই-করা-মূর্তিগুলি", "তার-ঢালাই-মূর্তি"]·DE["Trankopfer", "und-Trankopfer"]·EN["and-my-molten-image", "are-their-cast-images", "his-cast-image", "is-his-cast-image"]·FR["et-libation", "libation"]·heb["ו-נסכי", "נסכו", "נסכיהם"]·HI["उसकी-ढली-मूरत", "उसकी-ढाली-हुई-मूर्ति", "और-मेरी-ढली-मूर्ति-ने", "ढली-हुई-मूर्तियाँ-उनकी"]·ID["dan-patung-tuanganku", "patung-patung-tuangan-mereka", "tuangannya"]·IT["e-libazione", "libazione"]·jav["barang-coré", "lan-reca-cor-kula", "reca-tuangan-nipun", "recanipun"]·KO["그들의-부어-만든-우상은", "그리고-나의-부은-상이", "그의-주조물은", "주조물이-그의"]·PT["e-minha-imagem-de-fundição", "imagens-fundidas-deles", "sua-imagem", "sua-imagem-fundida"]·RU["и-литой-идол-мой", "истуканы-их", "литьё-его"]·ES["su-imagen-fundida", "sus-imágenes-fundidas", "y-mi-imagen-fundida", "ídolo-su"]·SW["kinyago-chake", "na-kinyago-changu", "sanamu-yake", "sanamu-zao"]·TR["dokulmusler", "dökme-putu-onun", "dökümü", "ve-dokme-putum"]·urd["اور-میرے-ڈھلے-ہوئے-بت-نے", "اُس-کی-ڈھالی-ہوئی-مورت", "اُس-کی-ڈھلائی", "اُن-کے-ڈھلے-ہوئے-بت"]
Related Senses
H3548 1. priest, cultic officiant (750×)G5547 1. Christ, Messiah, Anointed One (540×)H5030 1. Prophet, divine spokesperson (317×)H5930a 1. burnt offering (sacrifice) (286×)H3881 1. Levites (priestly class) (283×)G4396 1. prophet, spokesperson of God (146×)H6944 1. sanctuary, holy place (129×)G0749 1. high priest, chief priest (123×)H6944 2. holiness, sacredness (abstract quality) (123×)G5330 1. Pharisee (99×)G4336 1. pray to God (86×)H6944 3. holy things, sacred offerings (plural) (86×)H3722a 1. make ritual atonement (Piel) (85×)H6912 1. bury (Qal active) (82×)H6419 1. pray (Hitpael) (80×)H6944 4. holiness (with possessive pronoun) (77×)H6942 1. sanctify, consecrate (Piel factitive) (76×)H2930a 1. Qal: be/become unclean (75×)H7819a 1. slaughter an animal (Qal active) (72×)H1486 1. lot (object cast for decisions) (71×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† נֶ֫סֶךְ 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.;— 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…