מֶשֶׁק
mesheq · H4943 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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heir
Meaning unsure, possibly a wordplay on דַּמֶּשֶׂק; hence, possibly: person who will gain possession of an estate after the death of the current proprietor
ExamplesGenesis 15:2 But Abram said, “Lord GOD, what will You give me, since I am childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”
How it’s used In 2 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
- בַּיִתhouse, household 1
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בֵּןson 1
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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In the other Testament 1 word
- οἰκονόμος oikonómos · G3623 · manager of a household, steward, one who is in charge of
- Standard Greek translation-equivalent for Hebrew terms denoting a household steward or manager of property; used in LXX and NT for one who manages another's household or estate
Semantic domains 1 entry
- People001001003
- The word denotes a steward, a person holding a position of household oversight.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4943. mesheq מֶ֫שֶׁק noun [masculine] acquisition, possession (?; meaning conjectured…
מֶ֫שֶׁק noun [masculine] acquisition, possession (?; meaning conjectured from context, from analogy of מִמְשָׁק q. v., and of משׁך), only אֱלִיעֶזֶר דַּמֶּשֶׂק הוּא בֵּיתִי וּבֶןמֶֿשֶׁק Gen 15:2 (compare בן
8 (λ), above; Ges§ 128. 2, R. 2. c) and the son of acquisition (= he who is to acquire, the heir of) my house is, etc.; ׳מ possibly changed from משׁך (compare Job 28:18) for word-play with דמשׂק, Kau and SoGn. Anm. 62, or by copyist's error, but very dubious. ᵐ5 Μασεκ (proper name, compare LagBN 78).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; 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.
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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