Strong’s H4545 · Hebrew

מַסֶּכֶת
maççeketh
mas-seh'-keth

Definition

something expanded, i.e. the warp in aloom (as stretched out to receive the woof)

Etymology

from H5259 (נָסַךְ) in the sense of spreading out;

Where the KJV renders it

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