Word

מֶשֶׁךְ

Meshek · H4902 · Hebrew · proper noun · 9 occurrences

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This name belongs to 2 people

Meshechfirst named in Genesis 10:28 verses
Mashfirst named in Genesis 10:232 verses

This name belongs to 2 places

Meshechfirst named in Psalm 120:55 verses
Meshech-Tubalfirst named in Ezekiel 32:261 verse

Meanings

Meshech

A man who was a son of Japheth, considered the founder of a nation with the same name

Examples
Genesis 10:2 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
1 Chronicles 1:5 The sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Meshech

A man who was a son of Shem, possibly to be identified with Mash, considered the founder of a nation with the same name

Examples
1 Chronicles 1:17 The sons of Shem were Elam, Asshur, Arpachshad, Lud, Aram, Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
Meshech

Nation, usually identified with a kingdom in Central Anatolia; considered the descendants of Japheth through his son Meshech

Examples
Psalm 120:5 Woe to me, for I reside in Meshech, For I have settled among the tents of Kedar!
Ezekiel 27:13 “Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traders; with human lives and vessels of bronze they paid for your merchandise.
Ezekiel 32:26 “Meshech, Tubal, and all their hordes are there; their graves surround them. All of them were killed by the sword uncircumcised, though they inflicted their terror on the land of the living.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

What it is said to bePredicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

שָׁםthere 1

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

3 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּןson 3

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

3 occurrences in 1 groups

רֹאשׁhead, top, chief 3

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.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 4 entries

Containers001003001001003: This domain is inherited from the identically-spelled common noun rather than independently attested by this proper name's own citations.
Names of People003001007: This entry carries no independent "Names of People" sense of its own; every genuine tagged occurrence of this lexeme (e.g. Genesis 10:2, Ezekiel 38:2) names either a people/nation or a place, not an individual person. The domain is bundle-shared with the lexeme's own broader entry.
Names of Groups003001006: מֶשֶׁךְ names Meshech, a people or nation descended from Japheth, illustrated at Genesis 10:2 ("the sons of Japheth were Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras") and Ezekiel 38:2 ("Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal").
Names of Locations003001010: מֶשֶׁךְ also names the region or land associated with that people, illustrated at Psalm 120:5 ("Woe to me, for I reside in Meshech") and Ezekiel 27:13 ("Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were your traders").

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4902. Meshek II. מֶ֫שֶׁךְ proper name, of a people the Moschi (Greek Μοσχοι, see below;…

H4902. Meshek
II. מֶ֫שֶׁךְ proper name, of a people the Moschi (Greek Μοσχοι, see below; Assyrian Mušku, Muški, DlPar 250 E. SchrCOT Gen 10:2; KGF 155 ff.; compare Sabean משך Hal243); — 'son' of Japheth Gen 10:2 (P), between תֻּבָל and תִּירָס, = 1Ch 1:5; also, מֶ֑שֶׁךְ, probably error, 1Ch 1:17 (see מַשׁ); מֶ֑שֶׁךְ Psa 120:5 (|| קֵדָר; here without תֻּבָל); וּמ ׳תּוּבַל Eze 27:13; compare Eze 32:26; Eze 38:2 (both + תֻּבָל); so also ᵐ5 Isa 66:19 (Lo StaJavan 8 Du CheHpt; see above מָשַׁךְ 2); מ ראֹשׁ נְשִׂיא ׳גּוֺג וְתֻבָ֑ל Eze 38:3; Eze 39:1. ᵐ5 Μοσοχ (Μεσοχ), Samaritan מושׁ(י)ך. — On identification compare Boch.; in Assyrian times they dwelt in west (or northwest) Armenia (compare Schrl.c.); in Persian times apparently farther northeast (southeast of Euxine Sea), compare Μοσχοι καὶ Τιβαρηνοι Herodiii. 94; vii. 78; also DiGen 10:2 and CheEncycl. Blb. Art. Geogr. (Biblical).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

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