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Strong's #4537 - מָסַךְ
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- to mix, mingle, produce by mixing
- (Qal) to pour, mix
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2344) kxm (מסכ MSK) AC: Mix CO: Mixed wine AB: ?: The mixture of water and wine. [from: xm]
V) kxm (מסכ MSK) - Mix: To mix water with wine. KJV (5): (vf: Paal) mingle - Strongs: H4537 (מָסַךְ)
Nm) kxm (מסכ MSK) - Mixed wine: A mixture of water and wine. [df: gzm] KJV (2): mixture, liquor - Strongs: H4197 (מֶזֶג), H4538 (מֶסֶךְ)
hm ) kxmm (ממסכ MMSK) - Mixture: What is mixed. KJV (2): mixed wine, drink offering - Strongs: H4469 (מִמְסָךְ)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
Qal Perfect 3 masculine singular ׳מ Isaiah 19:14; מָֽסְכָה Proverbs 9:2; מָסָ֑כְתִּי Proverbs 9:5; Psalm 102:10; Infinitive construct מְסֹךְ Isaiah 5:22; —
1 pour, only figurative, בְּקִרְבָּהּ׳מ רוּחַ עִוְעִים Isaiah 19:14 (subject ׳מ); mix, with accusative שֵׁכָר Isaiah 5:22; i.e. make a choice drink by mixing with spices, etc. (mixing with water came later, compare 2 Maccabees 15:39) Löw p. 419 Frä162f, 171f. Now Archaeology 1,120 Benz Archaeology 95; object יַיִן figurative, subject wisdom Proverbs 9:2,5; שִׁקֻּוַי בִּבְכִי מָסָ֑כְתִּי Psalm 102:10 my drink with weeping have I mixed (see Assyrian [ akâl] ul âkul, bikîtum kurmati, mê ul aštî, dîmtu maštîtî Zim BP 34).
מָסַךְ to mix, to mingle, i.q. מָזַנ. (This root is very widely extended, not only in the Phœnicio-Shemitic languages, but also in the Indo-Germanic and Slavonic languages. See Arab. مشج, مزج, ماش Med. Ye, to mix, مَسْمَا سُ, مَسْمَسَةُ mixture; Germ. Mifchmafch; Aram. ܡܙܓܰ, מְזַג, מְזַךְ; Sanscr. maksh and misr; Pers. امير يدن and اميختن; Gr. μίσγω; Lat. misceo; Polish mieszam; Bohem. smisseti; Engl. to mash, to mix; Germ. mifchen) Psalms 102:10; Isaiah 19:14, יְהֹוָה מָסַךְ בְּקִרְבָּהּ רוּחַ עִוְעִים “Jehovah has mingled in her midst a spirit of perversities;” i.e. Jehovah has sent upon them a perverse disposition. Specially to mix wine, i.e. to spice it, Proverbs 9:2, Isaiah 5:22.
Hence מִמְסָךְ and