nasach · pour out

What it means

nasach (נָסַךְ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pour out”.

A liquid as an offering; also cast metal, and install a king.

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 offer wine or water by emptying it before God.
2. To melt metal to make an idol.
3. To install someone in his place of authority.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• pour out ×8
• poured out ×6
• poured ×3
• he poured it out as a libation ×2
• I was established ×1
• cast ×1
• casts it ×1
• have installed ×1
• pouring out ×1
• you shall not pour ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×3
• Numbers×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×2
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×8
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×1

• Genesis 35:14

  Jacob set up a standing stone in the place where he had spoken with him, a standing stone of stone; he poured out a libation on it and poured oil on it.

• Exodus 25:29

  You shall make its plates, its spoons, its jars, and its bowls, with which drink offerings are poured; of pure gold you shall make them.

• Exodus 30:9

  You shall not offer on it strange incense, or burnt offering or grain offering, and a libation you shall not pour on it.

• Exodus 37:16

  And he made the utensils that were on the table, its plates and its spoons and its bowls and the jars with which libations are poured, of pure gold.

• Numbers 28:7

  Its libation shall be a quarter of a hin for the one lamb; in the holy place pour out a libation of intoxicating drink to YHWH.

• 2 Samuel 23:16

  The three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate, and they carried it and brought it to David; but he was not willing to drink it, and he poured it out as a libation to YHWH.

• 2 Kings 16:13

  He offered up in smoke his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured his libation, and splashed the blood of the peace offerings that were his on the altar.

• 1 Chronicles 11:18

  The three broke through the camp of the Philistines and drew water from the well of Bethlehem that is by the gate, and they carried it and brought it to David; but David was not willing to drink it, and he poured it out as a libation to YHWH.

• Psalms 2:6

  “But I have installed my king on Zion, my holy mountain.”

• Psalms 16:4

  The sorrows of those who hurry after another god will multiply. I will not pour out their libations of blood, nor lift their names on my lips.

• Proverbs 8:23

  From eternity I was established, from the beginning, from the origins of the earth.

• Isaiah 29:10

  For YHWH has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and he has shut your eyes, the prophets, and your heads, the seers, he has covered.

• Isaiah 30:1

  Woe to the stubborn children, declares YHWH, who make a plan, but not from me, and who pour out a libation, but not of my spirit, so as to add sin to sin;

• Isaiah 40:19

  The carved image? A craftsman casts it, and a goldsmith overlays it with gold, and chains of silver the goldsmith casts.

• Isaiah 44:10

  Who has formed a god and cast a carved image that is of no profit?

• Jeremiah 7:18

  The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead dough to make cakes for the queen of the heavens; and they pour out libations to other gods to provoke me to anger.

• Jeremiah 19:13

  And the houses of Jerusalem and the houses of the kings of Judah will be like the place of Topheth, unclean; all the houses on whose roofs they burned incense to all the army of the heavens and poured out libations to other gods.’”

• Jeremiah 32:29

  And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come and set this city on fire and burn it, along with the houses on whose roofs they burned incense to Baal and poured out libations to other gods, to provoke me.

• Jeremiah 44:17

  But we will certainly do every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens and to pour out libations to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and we had plenty of bread, and we were well off, and evil we did not see.

• Jeremiah 44:18

  But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of the heavens and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything, and by the sword and by famine we have come to an end.”

• Jeremiah 44:19

  “And when we burn incense to the queen of the heavens and pour out libations to her, was it without our husbands that we made for her cakes to make her image and poured out libations to her?”

• Jeremiah 44:25

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel, saying: You and your wives have spoken with your mouth, and with your hands have fulfilled it, saying, ‘We will certainly perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens and to pour out libations to her.’ By all means confirm your vows, and by all means perform your vows!

• Ezekiel 20:28

  When I brought them into the land that I had raised my hand to give it to them, they saw every high hill and every thick tree, and there they offered their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering, and there they set their pleasing aromas, and there they poured out their libations.

• Hosea 9:4

  They will not pour out libations of wine to YHWH, and their sacrifices will not be pleasing to him; they will be like the bread of mourners to them; all who eat it will be defiled; for their bread will be for their soul; it will not come into the house of YHWH.

And 1 more times.