maskit · carved figure, imagination

What it means

maskit (מַשְׂכִּית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “carved figure, imagination”.

A carved figure or image; a stone with carved figures used as an object of worship. Also imagination.

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. Image cut in stone for worship; a fine mount for a jewel.
2. What one dreams up in the mind, fancies.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• carved stones ×1
• figures ×1
• imagination ×1
• imaginations ×1
• sculpted ×1
• settings ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×2
• Ezekiel×1

• Leviticus 26:1

  You shall not make idols for yourselves, and you shall not set up for yourselves a carved image or a standing stone, and you shall not put a sculpted stone in your land to bow down on it; for I am YHWH your Elohim.

• Numbers 33:52

  you shall dispossess all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and do away with all their carved stones, and all their molten images you shall do away with, and all their high places you shall destroy.

• Psalms 73:7

  Their eyes bulge out from fat; the imaginations of the heart overflow.

• Proverbs 18:11

  The wealth of the rich is his strong city, and like a wall set on high in his imagination.

• Proverbs 25:11

  Apples of gold in settings of silver is a word spoken at its right time.

• Ezekiel 8:12

  And he said to me, “Have you seen, son of man, what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the dark, each in his chambers of figures? For they are saying, ‘YHWH does not see us; YHWH has forsaken the land.’”