H4906: מַשְׂכִּית
maskîyth · pronounced mas-keeth' · “figure”
Definition
a figure (carved on stone, the wall, or any object); figuratively, imagination
KJV translates it as: conceit, image(-ry), picture, [idiom] wish.
Word origin: from the same as H7906 (שֵׂכוּ);
Extended definition
1a) show-piece, carved figure (of idols)
1b) imagination, conceit
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H4906 is translated
- his ×2
- a carved image ×1
- their ×1
- the imaginations of ×1
- settings of ×1
Bible verses with H4906 (maskîyth)
Maskîyth appears in 6 verses.
- Leviticus 26:1
Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.
- Numbers 33:52
Then ye shall drive out all the inhabitants of the land from before you, and destroy all their pictures, and destroy all their molten images, and quite pluck down all their high places:
- Psalms 73:7
Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
- Proverbs 18:11
The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit.
- Proverbs 25:11
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.
- Ezekiel 8:12
Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not; the Lord hath forsaken the earth.