Strong’s H4538 · Hebrew

מֶסֶךְ
meçek
meh'-sek

Definition

a mixture, i.e. of wine with spices

Etymology

from H4537 (מָסַךְ);

Where the KJV renders it

  • mixture

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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