mashach · draw, drag; prolong

What it means

mashach (מָשַׁךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “draw, drag; prolong”.

Draw, pull, drag out; also prolong, sound a long note.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To pull something, drag it out.
2. To make something last longer.
3. To set out toward a place, often as a group.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• draw ×5
• drew ×4
• Prolong ×2
• be delayed ×2
• pulled ×2
• tall ×2
• Go ×1
• I have drawn you ×1
• be prolonged ×1
• deferred ×1
• others ×15

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×2
• Deuteronomy×1
• Joshua×1
• Judges×4
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×3
• Psalms×5
• Proverbs×1
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×2
• Ezekiel×3
• Hosea×2
• Amos×1

• Genesis 37:28

  Then Midianite men, traders, passed by; and they drew and lifted Joseph out of the cistern and sold Joseph to the Ishmaelites for twenty pieces of silver; and they brought Joseph to Egypt.

• Exodus 12:21

  Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and take for yourselves animals of the flock for your families, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

• Exodus 19:13

  No hand shall touch him, for he shall surely be stoned or surely shot with arrows; whether animal or man, he shall not live.’ When the ram’s horn sounds a long blast, they shall go up on the mountain.”

• Deuteronomy 21:3

  And the city that is nearest to the slain one, the elders of that city shall take a heifer of the herd that has not been worked and that has not pulled in a yoke.

• Joshua 6:5

  And it shall be, when they make a long blast with the horn of the ram, when you hear the sound of the horn, that all the people shall raise a great acclamation, and the wall of the city will fall in its place, and the people shall go up, each man straight ahead.”

• Judges 4:6

  She sent and called Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh of Naphtali, and said to him, “Has not YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, commanded, ‘Go, march to Mount Tabor, and take with you ten thousand men from the sons of Naphtali and from the sons of Zebulun?

• Judges 4:7

  And I will draw out to you, to the brook Kishon, Sisera, the commander of the army of Jabin, with his chariots and his multitude, and I will give him into your hand.’”

• Judges 5:14

  From Ephraim came those whose root is in Amalek; after you, Benjamin, among your peoples. From Machir went down those who command, and from Zebulun those who carry the staff of the scribe.

• Judges 20:37

  And the ambush hurried and rushed against Gibeah; and the ambush marched and struck all the city with the edge of the sword.

• 1 Kings 22:34

  But a man drew the bow in his simplicity, and struck the king of Israel between the joints and the breastplate. He said to his chariot driver, “Turn your hand and take me out of the camp, for I am wounded.”

• 2 Chronicles 18:33

  But a man drew the bow in his simplicity, and struck the king of Israel between the joints and the breastplate. He said to the chariot driver, “Turn your hand and take me out of the camp, for I am wounded.”

• Nehemiah 9:30

  And you were patient with them many years, and testified against them by your spirit through your prophets, but they did not give ear; so you gave them into the hand of the peoples of the lands.

• Job 21:33

  Sweet to him are the clods of the valley; and after him every human being goes, and before him, without number.

• Job 24:22

  And he drags off the mighty by his strength; he rises up, and no one is sure of life.

• Job 41:1

  Can you draw out Leviathan with a fishhook, or with a cord press down its tongue?

• Psalms 10:9

  He lies in wait in the hiding place like a lion in its lair; he lies in wait to seize the afflicted; he seizes the afflicted by dragging him into his net.

• Psalms 28:3

  Do not drag me away with the wicked and with those who work wickedness, who speak peace with their neighbors but evil is in their heart.

• Psalms 36:10

  Prolong your loyal love to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright in heart.

• Psalms 85:5

  Will you be angry with us forever? Will you prolong your anger from generation to generation?

• Psalms 109:12

  Let there be no one to extend loyal love to him, nor let there be anyone to show favor to his fatherless children.

• Proverbs 13:12

  Hope deferred makes sick the heart, but a tree of life is desire fulfilled.

• Ecclesiastes 2:3

  I explored in my heart to draw my flesh with wine while my heart was guiding me with wisdom, and to lay hold on witlessness, until I might see what was good for human beings that they should do under the heavens during the number of the days of their life.

• Song of Songs 1:4

  Draw me after you; let us run! The king has brought me into his chambers; we will exult and rejoice in you; we will recall your love more than wine; with uprightness they love you.

• Isaiah 5:18

  Woe to those who drag iniquity with cords of falsehood, and as with ropes of a cart, sin;

• Isaiah 13:22

  And hyenas will howl in its palaces, and jackals in the palaces of delight; and its time is near to come, and its days will not be prolonged.

• Isaiah 18:2

  which sends envoys by the sea, and in vessels of papyrus on the surface of the waters! Go, swift messengers, to a nation tall and smooth-skinned, to a people feared from that time and onward, a nation of strength, strength, and of trampling, whose land the rivers divide.

• Isaiah 18:7

  At that time tribute will be brought to YHWH Tsevaot, a people tall and smooth-skinned, and from a people feared from that time and onward, a nation of strength, strength, and of trampling, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of YHWH Tsevaot, Mount Zion.

• Isaiah 66:19

  And I will set among them a sign, and I will send from them those who escaped to the nations: Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, Tubal and Javan, the distant coastlands that have not heard my fame nor seen my glory; and they will declare my glory among the nations.

• Jeremiah 31:3

  From afar YHWH appeared to me: “With an eternal love I have loved you; therefore I have drawn you with loyal love.

• Jeremiah 38:13

  So they pulled Jeremiah with ropes and brought him up from the cistern; and Jeremiah stayed in the court of the guard.

• Ezekiel 12:25

  For I, YHWH, will speak; the word that I speak will be done, it will not be delayed any longer; for in your days, rebellious house, I will speak a word and do it,’ declares Adonai YHWH.”

• Ezekiel 12:28

  Therefore say to them, ‘Thus says Adonai YHWH: None of my words will be delayed any longer; the word that I speak will be done,’ declares Adonai YHWH.”

• Ezekiel 32:20

  In the midst of those slain by the sword they will fall; to the sword she is given; drag her away and all her multitudes.

• Hosea 7:5

  On the day of our king the princes made themselves sick with the heat of wine; he stretched out his hand with mockers.

• Hosea 11:4

  With cords of humankind I drew them, with ropes of love; and I was to them like those who lift the yoke from their jaws; and I bent down to him and fed him.

• Amos 9:13

  Look, days are coming, declares YHWH, when the plowman will overtake the reaper, and the one who treads grapes the one who scatters the seed; and the mountains will drip sweet wine, and all the hills will melt.