מֶשֶׁק
meshek · possession, heir
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4943 · appears 1 time in the Bible
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meshek (מֶשֶׁק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “possession, heir”.
A rare word whose exact sense is uncertain; from the context, the one who takes over the household's goods: the heir.
How to say it
me·shek
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
- What one acquires; here, the one who would take over the household's goods.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis 15:2
But Abram said, “Adonai YHWH, what will you give me, while I go on childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?”