Casting
מוּצָקStrong’s H4165mutsaq (mu-tsaq)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mutsaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “casting of”, “cast” and “casting”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he made two chapiters of molten brass, to set upon the tops of the pillars: the height of the one chapiter was five cubits, and the height of the other chapiter was five cubits:”
Meaning
- A casting
How it's translated
- casting of 1
- cast 1
- a casting 1
- into lump 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 3
- Job 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 7:23And he made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about.
- 1 Kings 7:37After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one size.
- Job 38:38When the dust groweth into hardness, and the clods cleave fast together?
Hebrew dictionary
מוּצָק mutsaq · casting
a casting
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.