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Strong's H5262 נֶסֶךְ (necek)

Necek means “libation” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G5262 — hypodeigma (“pattern”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H5262
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 62
Books 12

Strong's H5262 Quick Answer

Strong's H5262 נֶסֶך נֵסֶך (necek) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. necek (neh'-sek) (or necek {nay'-sek}) n-m. 1. a libation 2. also a cast idol It has 62 linked Bible usages across 12 books. Visible English usage signals include drink, also, molten, cover, and idol. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
necek (neh'-sek) (or necek {nay'-sek}) n-m. 1. a libation 2. also a cast idol
Usage
62 linked usages
Books
12 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
drink, also, molten, cover, and idol

Meaning and Definition

necek (neh'-sek) (or necek {nay'-sek}) n-m. 1. a libation 2. also a cast idol [from H5258] KJV: cover, drink offering, molten image. Root(s): H5258

Original Word
נֶסֶך נֵסֶך
Transliteration
necek
Derivation
Root: נסך First root strongs: 5258
Morphology
noun masc

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H5262. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

drink offering

Usage: 1) drink offering, libation, molten image, something poured out 1a) drink offering 1b) molten images Aramaic equivalent: ne.sakh (נְסַךְ "drink offering" H5261)

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How Strong's H5262 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render necek, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

drink Genesis 35:14 54× also Numbers 6:17 molten Isaiah 41:29 cover Numbers 4:7 idol Isaiah 48:5

How Strong's H5262 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 62 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H5262 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H5262 in the Old Testament

62 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 35:14 KJV

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.

Exodus 29:40 KJV

And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.

Exodus 29:41 KJV

And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

Usage Excerpts

First 62 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5262.

Genesis 35:14 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Exodus 29:40 Old Testament, KJV
And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering.
Exodus 29:41 Old Testament, KJV
And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
Exodus 30:9 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering thereon.
Leviticus 23:13 Old Testament, KJV
And the meat offering thereof shall be two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD for a sweet savour: and the drink offering thereof shall be of wine, the fourth part of an hin.
Leviticus 23:18 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the LORD, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the LORD.
Leviticus 23:37 Old Testament, KJV
These are the feasts of the LORD, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:
Numbers 4:7 Old Testament, KJV
And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal: and the continual bread shall be thereon:
Numbers 6:15 Old Testament, KJV
And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings.
Numbers 6:17 Old Testament, KJV
And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the LORD, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers 15:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.
Numbers 15:7 Old Testament, KJV
And for a drink offering thou shalt offer the third part of an hin of wine, for a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Numbers 15:10 Old Testament, KJV
And thou shalt bring for a drink offering half an hin of wine, for an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Numbers 15:24 Old Testament, KJV
Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
Numbers 28:7 Old Testament, KJV
And 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.
Numbers 28:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the other lamb shalt thou offer at even: as the meat offering of the morning, and as the drink offering thereof, thou shalt offer it, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
Numbers 28:9 Old Testament, KJV
And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour for a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
Numbers 28:10 Old Testament, KJV
This is the burnt offering of every sabbath, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers 28:14 Old Testament, KJV
And their drink offerings shall be half an hin of wine unto a bullock, and the third part of an hin unto a ram, and a fourth part of an hin unto a lamb: this is the burnt offering of every month throughout the months of the year.
Numbers 28:15 Old Testament, KJV
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers 28:24 Old Testament, KJV
After this manner ye shall offer daily, throughout the seven days, the meat of the sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD: it shall be offered beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers 28:31 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their drink offerings.
Numbers 29:6 Old Testament, KJV
Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.
Numbers 29:11 Old Testament, KJV
One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.
Numbers 29:16 Old Testament, KJV
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers 29:18 Old Testament, KJV
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers 29:19 Old Testament, KJV
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and their drink offerings.
Numbers 29:21 Old Testament, KJV
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers 29:22 Old Testament, KJV
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers 29:24 Old Testament, KJV
Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers 29:25 Old Testament, KJV
And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers 29:27 Old Testament, KJV
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers 29:28 Old Testament, KJV
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers 29:30 Old Testament, KJV
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers 29:31 Old Testament, KJV
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers 29:33 Old Testament, KJV
And their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers 29:34 Old Testament, KJV
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers 29:37 Old Testament, KJV
Their meat offering and their drink offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the manner:
Numbers 29:38 Old Testament, KJV
And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering.
Numbers 29:39 Old Testament, KJV
These things ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings, and for your peace offerings.
2 Kings 16:13 Old Testament, KJV
And 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.
2 Kings 16:15 Old Testament, KJV
And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king's burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire by.
1 Chronicles 29:21 Old Testament, KJV
And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:
2 Chronicles 29:35 Old Testament, KJV
And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.
Psalms 16:4 Old Testament, KJV
Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
Isaiah 41:29 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, they are all vanity; their works are nothing: their molten images are wind and confusion.
Isaiah 48:5 Old Testament, KJV
I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.
Isaiah 57:6 Old Testament, KJV
Among the smooth stones of the stream is thy portion; they, they are thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
Jeremiah 7:18 Old Testament, KJV
The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead their dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah 10:14 Old Testament, KJV
Every man is brutish in his knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Jeremiah 19:13 Old Testament, KJV
And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings unto other gods.
Jeremiah 32:29 Old Testament, KJV
And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.
Jeremiah 44:17 Old Testament, KJV
But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil.
Jeremiah 44:18 Old Testament, KJV
But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
Jeremiah 44:19 Old Testament, KJV
And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings unto her, without our men?
Jeremiah 44:25 Old Testament, KJV
Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
Jeremiah 51:17 Old Testament, KJV
Every man is brutish by his knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.
Ezekiel 20:28 Old Testament, KJV
For when I had brought them into the land, for the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings.
Ezekiel 45:17 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall be the prince's part to give burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
Joel 1:9 Old Testament, KJV
The meat offering and the drink offering is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD's ministers, mourn.
Joel 1:13 Old Testament, KJV
Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.
Joel 2:14 Old Testament, KJV
Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5262, grouped by book.

Genesis 1 usage, Old Testament
Exodus 3 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 3 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 33 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 3 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 9 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 2 usages, Old Testament
Joel 3 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H5262 FAQ

What does necek (נֶסֶךְ) mean?

Necek (Strong's H5262) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "libation". necek (neh'-sek) (or necek {nay'-sek}) n-m. 1. a libation 2. also a cast idol

How many times is necek (נֶסֶךְ) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 62 linked usages for Strong's H5262 across 12 books.

Where can I study necek (נֶסֶךְ) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5262 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate necek (נֶסֶךְ)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as drink, also, molten, cover, and idol. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.