Casting
מוּצֶ֫קֶתStrong’s H4166mutsaqah (mu-tsa-qah)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Mutsaqah is the Hebrew word usually translated “casting its” and “pipes”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And said unto me, What seest thou? And I said, I have looked, and behold a candlestick all of gold, with a bowl upon the top of it, and his seven lamps thereon, and seven pipes to the seven lamps, which are upon the top thereof:”
Meaning
- Pipe
- A casting
How it's translated
- in casting its 1
- pipes 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
- Zechariah 1
2 books in all.
Hebrew dictionary
מוּצֶ֫קֶת mutsaqah · casting
1) pipe 2) 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.