Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H4902
מֶשֶׁךְ
Meshekmeh'-shek
Meshech
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4902is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4902
Meshek, a son of Japheth, and the people descended from him
The King James renders it: Mesech, Meshech.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
Meshek is rendered "Meshech". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Five of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 10:2The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
Genesis 10:2וּמֶ֖שֶׁךְ
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Five of the word's nine uses are in Ezekiel.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Meshech5
- and Meshech4
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וּמֶ֖שֶׁךְ2
- מֶ֥שֶׁךְ2
- וָמֶ֔שֶׁךְ1
- וָמֶֽשֶׁךְ׃ ס1
- מֶ֑שֶׁךְ1
- מֶ֤שֶׁךְ1
- מֶ֣שֶׁךְ1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)5HNpl
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npl
Genesis
one use
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- וּמֶ֖שֶׁךְumeshekhconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Meshech
1 Chronicles
two uses
The sons of Japheth: Gomer, Magog, Madai, Javan, Tubal, Meshech, and Tiras.
- וּמֶ֖שֶׁךְumeshekhconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Meshech
The sons of Shem: Elam, Asshur, Arphaxad, Lud, and Aram. The sons of Aram: Uz, Hul, Gether, and Meshech.
- וָמֶֽשֶׁךְ׃ סvameshekhconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Meshech
Psalms
one use
Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!
- מֶ֑שֶׁךְmeshekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Meshech
Ezekiel
five uses
Javan, Tubal, and Meshech were your merchants. They exchanged slaves and bronze utensils for your merchandise.
- וָמֶ֔שֶׁךְvameshekhconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Meshech
Meshech and Tubal are there with all their multitudes, with their graves all around them. All of them are uncircumcised, slain by the sword, because they spread their terror in the land of the living.
- מֶ֤שֶׁךְmeshekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Meshech
“Son of man, set your face against Gog of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. Prophesy against him
- מֶ֣שֶׁךְmeshekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Meshech
and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
- מֶ֥שֶׁךְmeshekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Meshech
“As for you, O son of man, prophesy against Gog and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal.
- מֶ֥שֶׁךְmeshekhproper noun (a name)tagged: Meshech
The letters
Gematria 360· 840 mispar gadol
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.