Bible word study

Maccekah (Strong’s H4541): Meaning in the Bible

Maccekah (מַסֵּכָה) is the Hebrew word numbered H4541 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, a pouring over, i.e. fusion of metal (especially a cast image); by implication, a libation, i.e. league; concretely a coverlet (as if poured out). In the King James Bible it is translated covering, molten (image), vail..

• Original wordמַסֵּכָה
• Transliterationmaççêkâh
• Pronunciationmas-say-kaw'
• Part of speechnoun (feminine) (n-f)
• Strong’s numberH4541
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H5258;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Maccekah appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Maccekah (H4541) stands behind 28 English renderings in 28 verses across 14 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Judges (5), Isaiah (5), Exodus (3).

How the King James Bible renders Maccekah, by count

• image10 of 28 (36 percent)
• images8 of 28 (29 percent)
• molten7 of 28 (25 percent)
• covering2 of 28 (7 percent)
• vail1 of 28 (4 percent)

Three places to read Maccekah

• Exodus 32:4 And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.
• Judges 17:4 Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.
• Nehemiah 9:18 Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Maccekah in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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