מוּצֶ֫קֶת
mu.tsa.qah
casting
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Moutsakah (H4166): A Rare Term for Casting The Hebrew word *moutsakah* appears only twice in the biblical text, making it one of the more obscure technical terms in Scripture. Its definition as "casting" indicates a process—likely the pouring of molten metal into a mold to create a finished object. This term belongs to the vocabulary of metalworking and craftsmanship, describing a specific manufacturing technique rather than the object itself. The extreme rarity of this word (just two occurrences) suggests it may have been a specialized or archaic term even in biblical times. Its narrow appearance in the biblical corpus prevents us from determining a broad semantic range or multiple applications. Without access to the specific biblical contexts in which it appears, we cannot determine whether the word was used exclusively for one type of casting process, one material, or whether it had broader applications in Israelite craftsmanship. What is clear is that the biblical authors employed this particular lexical choice when they needed to reference the casting technique, indicating it held enough currency in their language to serve their descriptive purposes.
Source data & methodology
Occurrences in Scripture
2 total occurrences across the text
He said to me, “What do you see?” I said, “I have seen, and behold, a lamp stand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps on it; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;
2 Chronicles 4:3Under it was the likeness of oxen, which encircled it, for ten cubits, encircling the sea. The oxen were in two rows, cast when it was cast.