Bible Lexicons

Girdlestone's Synonyms of the Old TestamentGirdlestone's OT Synonyms

Drink-Offering

The drink-offering is nesec (נסך , Ass. nasaku), from nasac, to pour out. The LXX always renders it σπόνδη. The use of the verb Nasacin Psalms 2:6 is remarkable - 'I have poured out (as a drink-offering?) my king up on my holy hill of Zion.' Compare Proverbs 8:23, where wisdom is described as 'poured out from everlasting.' The word set adopted b, the A. V. is intelligible, but hardly adequate. The verb σπένδομαι is twice used by St. Paul of himself as ready to be poured fort has an offering (Philippians 2:17; 2 Timothy 4:6).