masecha · cast image, covering

What it means

masecha (מַסֵּכָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cast image, covering”.

A cast image: a figure made of molten metal. In other passages, a covering or a libation.

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. An idol made of melted metal.
2. A covering or veil spread over something.
3. An offering of liquid poured out before a god.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• cast image ×14
• cast metal ×5
• molten images ×3
• cast ×2
• covering ×2
• libation ×1
• molten ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×3
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×3
• Judges×5
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×5
• Hosea×1
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Exodus 32:4

  And he took it from their hand, and fashioned it with an engraving tool, and made it a calf of cast metal. And they said, “These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!”

• Exodus 32:8

  They have turned aside quickly from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a calf of cast metal and have bowed down to it and sacrificed to it and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!’”

• Exodus 34:17

  Gods of cast metal you shall not make for yourself.

• Leviticus 19:4

  Do not turn to idols, and gods of cast metal you shall not make for yourselves. 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.

• Deuteronomy 9:12

  YHWH said to me, “Get up, go down quickly from here, for your people whom you brought out of Egypt have acted corruptly; they have turned aside quickly from the way that I commanded them; they have made for themselves a cast image.”

• Deuteronomy 9:16

  I looked, and look, you had sinned against YHWH your Elohim; you had made for yourselves a cast calf; you had turned aside quickly from the way that YHWH had commanded you.

• Deuteronomy 27:15

  ‘Cursed be the man who makes a carved image or a cast image, an abomination to YHWH, the work of the hands of a craftsman, and sets it up in secret.’ And all the people shall answer and say, ‘Amen.’

• Judges 17:3

  And he returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother; and his mother said, “I have fully consecrated the silver to YHWH from my hand for my son, to make a carved image and a cast image; so now I return it to you.”

• Judges 17:4

  So he returned the silver to his mother, and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave it to the silversmith, and he made it into a carved image and a cast image; and it was in the house of Micaiah.

• Judges 18:14

  Then the five men who had gone to spy out the land of Laish spoke up and said to their brothers, “Do you know that there are in these houses an ephod and teraphim and a carved image and a cast image? Now consider what you will do.”

• Judges 18:17

  And the five men who had gone to spy out the land went up; they came in there, took the carved image, the ephod, the teraphim, and the cast image, while the priest was standing at the entrance of the gate with the six hundred men armed with weapons of war.

• Judges 18:18

  These men went into Micah’s house and took the carved image of the ephod, the teraphim, and the cast image; and the priest said to them, “What are you doing?”

• 1 Kings 14:9

  but you have done evil more than all who were before you, and you have gone and made for yourself other gods and cast images to provoke me to anger, and me you have thrown behind your back;

• 2 Kings 17:16

  They abandoned all the commandments of YHWH their Elohim and made for themselves a cast image, two calves; and they made an Asherah, and bowed down to all the army of the heavens, and served Baal.

• 2 Chronicles 28:2

  he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and also made molten images for the Baals.

• 2 Chronicles 34:3

  In the eighth year of his reign, while he was still a youth, he began to seek the Elohim of David his father; and in the twelfth year he began to cleanse Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, the Asherahs, the carved images, and the molten images.

• 2 Chronicles 34:4

  They tore down before him the altars of the Baals, and the incense altars that were high above them he cut down; and the Asherahs, the carved images, and the molten images he broke and ground to dust, and scattered it over the graves of those who had sacrificed to them.

• Nehemiah 9:18

  Even when they made for themselves a calf of cast metal and said, ‘This is your god who brought you up out of Egypt,’ and committed great acts of contempt,

• Psalms 106:19

  They made a calf at Horeb and bowed down to a cast image.

• Isaiah 25:7

  And he will swallow up on this mountain the surface of the veil, the veil that is over all the peoples, and the covering that is spread over all the nations.

• Isaiah 28:20

  For the bed is too short to stretch out on, and the covering too narrow to wrap oneself in.

• 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 30:22

  And you will defile the overlay of your carved idols of silver, and the plating of your cast image of gold; you will scatter them like a menstruous cloth; “Out!” you will say to it.

• Isaiah 42:17

  They will be turned back, they will be utterly put to shame, those who trust in the carved image, who say to the cast image, ‘You are our gods.’

• Hosea 13:2

  And now they keep sinning, and they have made for themselves a cast image from their silver, idols according to their understanding, the work of craftsmen, all of it; to them they say, “Those who sacrifice human beings, let them kiss calves.”

• Nahum 1:14

  And YHWH has commanded concerning you: “No more of your name will be sown; from the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the cast image; I will make your grave, for you are contemptible.”

• Habakkuk 2:18

  What does a carved image profit when its maker has carved it, a cast image and a teacher of falsehood, that the maker of his work trusts in it, to make mute idols?