Casting
יְצֻקָהStrong’s H3333yetsuqah (ye-tsu-qah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yetsuqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “casting its” and “cast”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And under the brim of it round about there were knops compassing it, ten in a cubit, compassing the sea round about: the knops were cast in two rows, when it was cast.”
Meaning
- A casting (of metal)
How it's translated
- in casting its 1
- cast 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 2
1 book in all.
Hebrew dictionary
יְצֻקָה yetsuqah · casting
a casting (of metal)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “casting” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CASTING, participle present
tense Throwing; sending; computing; calculating; turning; giving a preponderancy; deciding; running, or throwing into a mold to give shape. [See Cast.]
All definitions and other forms of “casting”
CASTING, noun
- The act of casting or founding.
- That which is cast in a mold; any vessel formed by casting melted metal into a mold, or in sand.
- The taking of casts and impressions of figures, busts, medals, etc.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.