Hebrew

Figure

מַשְׂכִּיתStrong’s H4906

maskit (mas-kit)

Appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Maskit is the Hebrew word usually translated “carved image”, “carved images their” and “imaginations of”. It appears in 6 verses of the Old Testament.

“Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the LORD your God.”

Leviticus 26:1 KJV

Meaning

Show-piece, figure, imagination, image, idol, pictureshow-piece, carved figure (of idols) · imagination, conceit

How it's translated

a carved image 1
carved images their 1
imaginations of 1
in own imagination his 1
in settings of 1
carved image his 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Proverbs 2
Leviticus 1
Numbers 1
Psalms 1
Ezekiel 1

5 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מַשְׂכִּית maskit · figure

1) show-piece, figure, imagination, image, idol, picture 1a) show-piece, carved figure (of idols) 1b) imagination, conceit

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “figure” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FIG'URE, noun

fig'ur. [Latin figura, from figo, to fix or set. See Feign.]

The form of any thing as expressed by the outline or terminating extremities.
Shape; form; person; as a lady of elegant figure
Distinguished appearance; eminence; distinction; remarkable character.
Appearance of any kind; as an ill figure; a mean figure

All definitions and other forms of “figure”

Magnificence; splendor; as, to live in figure and indulgence.
A statue; an image; that which is formed in resemblance of something else; as the figure of a man in plaster.
Representation in painting; the lines and colors which represent an animal, particularly a person; as the principal figures of a picture; a subordinate figure
In manufactures, a design or representation wrought on damask, velvet and other stuffs.
In logic, the order or disposition of the middle term in a syllogism with the parts of the question.
In arithmetic, a character denoting a number; as 2. 7. 9.
In astrology, the horoscope; the diagram of the aspects of the astrological houses.
In theology, type; representative.“Who was the figure of him that was to come” Romans 5:14
In rhetoric, a mode of speaking or writing in which words are deflected from their ordinary signification, or a mode more beautiful and emphatical than the ordinary way of expressing the sense; the language of the imagination and passions; as, knowledge is the light of the mind; the soul mounts on the wings of faith; youth is the morning of life.
In grammar, any deviation from the rules of analogy or syntax.
In dancing, the several steps which the dancer makes in order and cadence, considered as they form certain figures on the floor.

FIG'URE, verb transitive

fig'ur.

To form or mold into any determinate shape.
To show by a corporeal resemblance, as in picture or statuary.
To cover or adorn with figures or images; to mark with figures; to form figures in by art; as, to figure velvet or muslin.
To diversify; to variegate with adventitious forms of matter.
To represent by a typical or figurative resemblance.
To imagine; to image in the mind.
To prefigure; to foreshow.
To form figuratively; to use in a sense not literal; as figured expressions. [Little used.]
To note by characters.
In music, to pass several notes for one; to form runnings or variations.

FIG'URE, verb intransitive

To make a figure; to be distinguished. The envoy figured at the court of St. Cloud.

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.