What is the Strong's number for Mashak?

The Strong's number for Mashak (מָשַׁךְ) is H4900. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Mashak (Strong’s H4900): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Mashak mean?

Mashak (מָשַׁךְ, Strong's H4900) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall, etc.). The King James Bible translates it as draw (along, out), continue, defer, extend, forbear, × give, handle, make (pro-, sound) long, × sow, scatter, stretch out.

Mashak (מָשַׁךְ) is the Hebrew word numbered H4900 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall, etc.). In the King James Bible it is translated draw (along, out), continue, defer, extend.

מָשַׁךְ

mâshak · Hebrew

Strong’s H4900 · maw-shak'

Original wordמָשַׁךְ
Transliterationmâshak
Pronunciationmaw-shak'
Part of speechverb (v)
Strong’s numberH4900
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

to draw, used in a great variety of applications (including to sow, to sound, to prolong, to develop, to march, to remove, to delay, to be tall, etc.)

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

draw (along, out), continue, defer, extend, forbear, × give, handle, make (pro-, sound) long, × sow, scatter, stretch out. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Mashak appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Mashak (H4900) stands behind 36 English renderings in 36 verses across 18 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (5), Isaiah (5), Judges (4).

How the King James Bible renders Mashak, by count

draw7 of 36 (19 percent)
drew4 of 36 (11 percent)
out4 of 36 (11 percent)
prolonged3 of 36 (8 percent)
draweth2 of 36 (6 percent)
drawn2 of 36 (6 percent)

Three places to read Mashak

Genesis 37:28 Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.
Job 21:33 The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as there are innumerable before him.
Isaiah 13:22 And the wild beasts of the islands shall cry in their desolate houses, and dragons in their pleasant palaces: and her time is near to come, and her days shall not be prolonged.

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 Mashak 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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