Drink offering
The phrase "drink offering"[1] appears 29 times in the text. NunSamechKaf sometimes given the Strong's number 05262 where the Hebrew word "Nacak" נֶסֶךְ[2] appears even more, like nacak numbered 05258 נָסַךְ [3] NunSamechKaf said to mean to pour out, pour, offer, cast.
We see a drink offering in Genesis 35:14 "And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, [even] a pillar of stone: and he poured <wayyassêḵ וַיַּסֵּ֤ךְ 05258 VavYodSamechKaf> a drink offering<neseḵ נֶ֔סֶךְ 05262 NunSamechKaf> thereon, and he poured <03332> oil thereon."
The second word translated poured is 03332 wayyiṣōq וַיִּצֹ֥ק VavYodTzadikKuf.[4]
But we also see the same letters NunSamechKaf in the word 05259 נְסַךְ[5] but is translated spread or to weave in Isaiah 25:7 "And he will destroy in this mountain the face of the covering cast over all people, and the vail that is spread <05259> over all nations."
NunSamechKaf is also the letters of the word numbered 05260 נְסַךְ[6] translated offer which we see in Daniel 2:46 "Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer <05260> an oblation and sweet odours unto him."
05261 נֶסֶךְ[7] drink offering.[8]
Drink offering is said to have been common in the patriarchal period as we see in Genesis 35:14 and was associated with many of the sacrifices (Exodus 29:40).
They could not be poured upon the golden altar of incense (Exodus 30:9) the same as they were not to have strong drink in the vicinity because of a danger of death.[9] But again the metaphor is often missed with the sophistry of the Pharisees.
Others also say these drink offerings were required and accompaniment with all freewill offerings and votive offerings[10] and other established feasts (Numbers 28:14-31; Numbers 29:6-39). The reference in Deuteronomy 32:38 indicates that drink offerings were common features of heathen cultic rituals. Oil and wine, used separately or as a mixture, constituted the normal libation.
In 30 BC, libation-offerings to the genius of Augustus became a duty at public banquets or festivals which were a part of the Roman welfare system. From 12 BC, state oaths were sworn by the genius of the living emperor or persecution would follow. We would see this play out in the trial of Christians in North Africa when Emperor Septimius Severus outlawed private religion, a.k.a. Private welfare which included the daily ministration of the early Church.
The only legally acceptable welfare system was the Public religion run through Imperial Cult of Rome and other government supported temples dependent upon tribute for their support.[11]
These human gods and their temples had a function in society and their governments. That purpose is commonly misunderstood because if we did it might change the world's view of religion and our understanding of pure Religion and what was called His Church and the Kingdom of God.
Firstfruit |
Freewill offerings |
Burnt offering |
Sin offering |
Corban |
Heave offering |
Wave offering |
Meat offering or
Grain offering |
Trespass offering |
Drink offering |
Peace offering |
Sweet savour |
Charity |
Fervent charity |
Legal charity |
Sophistry |
Leaven |
Altars |
Milk and meat |
Fire |
Kidney |
Liver |
Breeches |
Naked |
Religion |
Red Heifer |
Hebrew word Offer and offering |
Footnotes
- ↑ 05262 נֶסֶךְ necek [neh’-sek] or נסך necek [nay’-sek] NunSamechKaf from 05258 Pour out; n m; [BDB-651a] [{See TWOT on 1375 @@ "1375a" }] AV-offering 59, image 4, cover withal 1; 64
- 1) drink offering, libation, molten image, something poured out
- 1a) drink offering
- 1b) molten images See Graven images and Jehovahnissi
- נ ן Nun Heir to the Throne, Aramaic fish in the Mem (fish moving in flowing waters) or in the Hebrew the Nun may mean the kingdom with a double Nun suggesting spiritual insight in two realms. [fish moving... Activity life] (Numeric value: 50)
- ס Samech The Eternal Cycle The circular symbolizes the fundamental truth described in the mystery of the ten statements [ prop... Support, turn] (Numeric value: 60)
- כ ך Kaf K Crown: To Actualize Potential power from spiritual to physical realm [to cover, strength] (Numeric value: 20)
- 1) drink offering, libation, molten image, something poured out
- ↑ Drink offering
- Genesis 35:14 And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, [even] a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering <05262> thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
- Exodus 29:40 And with the one lamb a tenth deal of flour mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil; and the fourth part of an hin of wine [for] a drink offering <05262>.
- Exodus 29:41 And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meat offering of the morning, and according to the drink offering <05262> thereof, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
- Exodus 30:9 Ye shall offer no strange incense thereon, nor burnt sacrifice, nor meat offering; neither shall ye pour drink offering <05262> thereon.
- Leviticus 23:13 And the meat offering thereof [shall be] two tenth deals of fine flour mingled with oil, an offering made by fire unto the LORD [for] a sweet savour: and the drink offering <05262> thereof [shall be] of wine, the fourth [part] of an hin.
- Numbers 4:7 And upon the table of shewbread they shall spread a cloth of blue, and put thereon the dishes, and the spoons, and the bowls, and covers to cover withal <05262>: and the continual bread shall be thereon:
- Numbers 6:15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of fine flour mingled with oil, and wafers of unleavened bread anointed with oil, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings <05262>.
- Numbers 15:5 And the fourth [part] of an hin of wine for a drink offering <05262> shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.
- Numbers 28:7 And the drink offering <05262> thereof [shall be] the fourth [part] of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy [place] shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the LORD [for] a drink offering <05262>.
- Numbers 29:6 Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings <05262>, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD... 11 One kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings <05262>... 16 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering <05262>... 18 And their meat offering and their drink offerings <05262> for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner: 19 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering thereof, and their drink offerings <05262>... 21 And their meat offering and their drink offerings <05262> for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner: 22 And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering <05262>... Numbers 29:24 Their meat offering and their drink offerings <05262> for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner: 25 And one kid of the goats [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering <05262>... 27 And their meat offering and their drink offerings <05262> for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner:28 And one goat [for] a sin offeri ng; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering <05262>... Numbers 29:30 And their meat offering and their drink offerings <05262> for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner: 31 And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering <05262>... 33 And their meat offering and their drink offerings <05262> for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner: 34 And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering <05262>... 37 Their meat offering and their drink offerings <05262> for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, [shall be] according to their number, after the manner: 38 And one goat [for] a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, and his drink offering <05262>. 39 These [things] ye shall do unto the LORD in your set feasts, beside your vows, and your freewill offerings, for your burnt offerings, and for your meat offerings, and for your drink offerings <05262>, and for your peace offerings.
- 2 Kings 16:13 And he burnt his burnt offering and his meat offering, and poured his drink offering <05262>, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, upon the altar... 15 And king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, Upon the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meat offering, and the king’s burnt sacrifice, and his meat offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meat offering, and their drink offerings <05262>; and sprinkle upon it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice: and the brasen altar shall be for me to enquire [by].
- 1 Chronicles 29:21 And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the LORD, and offered burnt offerings unto the LORD, on the morrow after that day, [even] a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, [and] a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings <05262>, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:
- 2 Chronicles 29:35 And also the burnt offerings [were] in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings <05262> for [every] burnt offering. So the service of the house of the LORD was set in order.
- Psalms 16:4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied [that] hasten [after] another [god]: their drink offerings <05262> of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
- Isaiah 41:29 Behold, they [are] all vanity; their works [are] nothing: their molten images <05262> [are] wind and confusion.
- Isaiah 48:5 I have even from the beginning declared [it] to thee; before it came to pass I shewed [it] thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image <05262>, hath commanded them.
- Isaiah 57:6 Among the smooth [stones] of the stream [is] thy portion; they, they [are] thy lot: even to them hast thou poured a drink offering <05262>, thou hast offered a meat offering. Should I receive comfort in these?
- Jeremiah 7:18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead [their] dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings <05262> unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
- Jeremiah 10:14 Every man is brutish in [his] knowledge: every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image <05262> [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
- Jeremiah 19:13 And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, shall be defiled as the place of Tophet, because of all the houses upon whose roofs they have burned incense unto all the host of heaven, and have poured out drink offerings <05262> unto other gods.
- Jeremiah 32:29 And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings <05262> unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.
- Jeremiah 44:17 But we will certainly do whatsoever thing goeth forth out of our own mouth, to burn incense unto the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings <05262> unto her, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for [then] had we plenty of victuals, and were well, and saw no evil. 18 But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings <05262> unto her, we have wanted all [things], and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine. 19 And when we burned incense to the queen of heaven, and poured out drink offerings <05262> unto her, did we make her cakes to worship her, and pour out drink offerings <05262> unto her, without our men?
- Jeremiah 44:25 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, saying; Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hand, saying, We will surely perform our vows that we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings <05262> unto her: ye will surely accomplish your vows, and surely perform your vows.
- Jeremiah 51:17 Every man is brutish by [his] knowledge; every founder is confounded by the graven image: for his molten image <05262> [is] falsehood, and [there is] no breath in them.
- Ezekiel 20:28 [For] when I had brought them into the land, [for] the which I lifted up mine hand to give it to them, then they saw every high hill, and all the thick trees, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering: there also they made their sweet savour, and poured out there their drink offerings <05262>.
- Ezekiel 45:17 And it shall be the prince’s part [to give] burnt offerings, and meat offerings, and drink offerings <05262>, in the feasts, and in the new moons, and in the sabbaths, in all solemnities of the house of Israel: he shall prepare the sin offering, and the meat offering, and the burnt offering, and the peace offerings, to make reconciliation for the house of Israel.
- Joel 1:9 The meat offering and the drink offering <05262> is cut off from the house of the LORD; the priests, the LORD’S ministers, mourn... 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering <05262> is withholden from the house of your God. 14 Who knoweth [if] he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; [even] a meat offering and a drink offering <05262> unto the LORD your God?
- See Double Samech
- ↑ 05258 נָסַךְ nacak \@naw-sak’\@ [NunSamechKaf] a primitive root; v; {See TWOT on 1375} {See TWOT on 1377} AV-pour out 12, pour 4, cover 3, offer 2, melteth 1, molten 1, set 1, set up 1; 25
- 1) to pour out, pour, offer, cast
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to pour out
- 1a2) to cast metal images
- 1a3) to anoint (a king)
- 1b) (Niphal) to be anointed
- 1c) (Piel) to pour out (as a libation)
- 1d) (Hiphil) to pour out libations
- 1e) (Hophal) to be poured out
- 1a) (Qal)
- 2) to set, install
- 2a) (Qal) to install
- 2b) (Niphal) to be installed
- Same as 05259 נָסַךְ nacak "to weave" as in fuse; 05260 נָסַךְ nëcak "offer" as in pour; 05261 נְסַךְ nëcak "drink offering" as in a libation offering poured; 05262 נֶסֶךְ necek "offering" as in a drink offering and even molten image in Isaiah 48:5, Jeremiah 10:14, Jeremiah 51:17.
- See Jehovahnissi.
- 1) to pour out, pour, offer, cast
- ↑ 03332 יָצַק yatsaq [yaw-tsak’] a primitive root; v; [BDB-427a] [{See TWOT on 897 }] AV-pour 21, cast 11, … out 7, molten 6, firm 2, set down 1, fast 1, groweth 1, hard 1, overflown 1, stedfast 1; 53
- 1) to pour, flow, cast, pour out
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1a1) to pour, pour out
- 1a2) to cast
- 1a3) to flow
- 1b) (Hiphil) to pour, pour out
- 1c) (Hophal)
- 1c1) to be poured
- 1c2) cast, molten (participle)
- 1c3) being firmly established (participle)
- 1a) (Qal)
- 1) to pour, flow, cast, pour out
- ↑ 05259 נָסַךְ nacak [naw-sak’] a primitive root [probably identical with 05258 through the idea fusion]; v; [BDB-651a] [{See TWOT on 1376 }] AV-spread 1; 1
- 1) (Qal) to weave
- Same as 05260 נָסַךְ nëcak "offer" as in pour; 05261 נְסַךְ nëcak "drink offering" as in a libation offering poured; 05262 נֶסֶךְ necek "offering" as in a drink offering and even molten image in Isaiah 48:5, Jeremiah 10:14, Jeremiah 51:17. See Jehovahnissi.
- ↑ 05260 נָסַךְ nëcak (Aramaic) [nes-ak’] corresponding to 05258; v; [BDB-1103a] [{See TWOT on 2866 }] AV-offer 1; 1
- Same as 05259 נָסַךְ nacak "to weave" as in fuse; 05261 נְסַךְ nëcak "drink offering" as in a libation offering poured; 05262 נֶסֶךְ necek "offering" as in a drink offering and even molten image in Isaiah 48:5, Jeremiah 10:14, Jeremiah 51:17. See Jehovahnissi.
- ↑ 05261 נְסַךְ nëcak (Aramaic) [nes-ak’] corresponding to 05262; n m; [BDB-1103a] [{See TWOT on 2866 @@ "2866a" }] AV-drink offering 1; 1
- 1) something poured out, libation, drink offering, libation offering
- Same as 05259 נָסַךְ nacak "to weave" as in fuse; 05260 נָסַךְ nëcak "offer" as in pour; 05262 נֶסֶךְ necek "offering" as in a drink offering and even molten image in Isaiah 48:5, Jeremiah 10:14, Jeremiah 51:17. See Jehovahnissi.
- ↑ Ezra 7:17 "That thou mayest buy speedily with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their meat offerings and their drink offerings <05261>, and offer them upon the altar of the house of your God which [is] in Jerusalem."
- ↑ Leviticus 10:9 "Do not drink wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tabernacle of the congregation, lest ye die: [it shall be] a statute for ever throughout your generations:"
- ↑ Numbers 28:9 ¶ And on the sabbath day two lambs of the first year without spot, and two tenth deals of flour [for] a meat offering, mingled with oil, and the drink offering thereof:
- ↑ Not exercise authority
- Matthew 20:25 "But Jesus called them unto him, and said, Ye know that the princes of the Gentiles exercise dominion over them, and they that are great exercise authority upon them. But it shall not be so among you:..."
- Mark 10:42 "But Jesus called them to him, and saith unto them, Ye know that they which are accounted to rule over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority upon them. But so shall it not be among you:..."
- Luke 22:25 "And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and they that exercise authority upon them are called benefactors. But ye [shall] not [be] so:..."