מוּצָק
mûwtsâq · H4165 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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to cast, to melt
Causative action by which someone produces an object by pouring molten gold, silver, or bronze into a mold in the shape of that object and letting it cool off; the resulting product is considered firm and strong
Examples1 Kings 7:37 He made the ten stands like this: all of them had the same casting, same measure, and same form.
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solid, hard, firm, lumpy
Process by which a substance becomes solid, as if it were cast in a mould
ExamplesJob 38:38 When the dust hardens into a mass And the clods stick together?
How it’s used In 4 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נְחֹשֶׁתbronze, copper 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- אֶחָדone 1
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֵןin 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Semantic domains 3 entries
- Unsafe002003003022
- This entry carries no independent “Unsafe” sense of its own; every tagged occurrence is the noun for a metal casting, as in “He also made two capitals of cast bronze to put on the tops of the pillars” (1 Kings 7:16). The “Unsafe” domain is bundle-shared with the related lexeme מוּצַק (mûwtsaq, H4164) rather than independently attested here.
- Exist002002002005
- The word denotes something cast or molded, as reflected in its gloss 'casting,' used of a cast metal object (e.g. Job 37:18's sky "cast as a metal mirror"), tying the word to a fixed, existing form.
- Solid002001001058
- The word's 'hardness' sense directly ties it to a solid, unyielding state, as reflected in Job 41:24's description of Leviathan's heart "hard as a stone."
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4165. mutsaq I. מוּצָק noun masculine a casting; ׳מ אֶחָד 1Ki 7:37 (of metal); of dust…
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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