Definition

properly, something poured out, i.e. a libation; also a molten image; by implication, a prince (as anointed)

Etymology

from H5258 (נָסַךְ);

Word family

• נָסַךְ nâçak

How the KJV renders it

• drink offering
• duke
• prince(-ipal)

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.