To pour
נָסַךְStrong’s H5258nasakh (na-sakh)
Appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Nasakh is the Hebrew word usually translated “pour out”, “poured out” and “it will be poured out”. It appears in 24 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.”
Meaning
- To pour out, pour, offer, cast(Qal) · (Niphal) to be anointed · (Piel) to pour out (as a libation) · (Hiphil) to pour out libations · (Hophal) to be poured out
- To set, install(Qal) to install · (Niphal) to be installed
How it's translated
- and to pour out 5
- and he poured out 4
- and they poured out 3
- it will be poured out 1
- you must pour out 1
- it was poured out 1
- pour out 1
- i have installed 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 7
- Isaiah 4
- Exodus 3
- Psalms 2
- Genesis 1
- Numbers 1
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 25:29And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and spoons thereof, and covers thereof, and bowls thereof, to cover withal: of pure gold shalt thou make them.
- Exodus 30:9Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
- Exodus 37:16And he made the vessels which were upon the table, his dishes, and his spoons, and his bowls, and his covers to cover withal, of pure gold.
- Numbers 28:7And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD for a drink offering.
- 2 Samuel 23:16And the three mighty men brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
- 2 Kings 16:13And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar.
Hebrew dictionary
נָסַךְ nasakh · to pour
1) to pour out, pour, offer, cast 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to pour out 1a2) to cast metal images 1a3) to anoint (a king) 1b) (Niphal) to be anointed 1c) (Piel) to pour out (as a libation) 1d) (Hiphil) to pour out libations 1e) (Hophal) to be poured out Aramaic equivalent: ne.sakh (נְסַךְ "to pour" H5260)
נָסַךְ nasakh · to install
1) to set, install 1a) (Qal) to install 1b) (Niphal) to be installed
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pour” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POUR, verb transitive
- To throw, as a fluid in a stream, either out of a vessel, or into it; as, to pour water from a pail, or out of a pail; to pour wine into a decanter. pour is appropriately but not exclusively applied to fluids, and signifies merely to cast or throw, and this sense is modified by out, from, in, into, against, on, upon, under, etc.“I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh” Joel 2:28
- To emit; to send forth in a stream or continued succession.
- To send forth; as, to pour out words, prayers or sighs; to pour out the heart or soul. Psalms 62:8
- To throw in profusion or with overwhelming force.“I will shortly pour out my fury on thee” Ezekiel 7:8
All definitions and other forms of “pour”
POUR, verb intransitive
To flow; to issue forth in a stream, or continued succession of parts; to move or rush, as a current. The torrent pours down from the mountain, or along the steep descent.
- To rush in a crowd or continued procession.
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.