STRONGS NUMBER H4902


Word Summary
Meshek: a son of Japheth, also his desc. and their land
Original Word: מֶשֶׁךְ
Transliteration: Meshek
Phonetic Spelling: (meh'-shek)
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: a son of Japheth, also his desc. and their land
Meaning: Meshech -- a son of Japheth, also his descendants and their land
Strong's Concordance
Mesech, Meshech

The same in form as meshek, but probably of foreign derivation; Meshek, a son of Japheth, and the people descended from him -- Mesech, Meshech.

see HEBREW meshek

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4902. Meshek

II. מֶ֫שֶׁךְproper name, of a people the Moschi (Greek Μοσχοι, see below; Assyrian Mušku, Muški, DlPar 250 E. SchrCOT Genesis 10:2; KGF 155 ff.; compare Sabean משך‎ Hal243); — 'son' of Japheth 10:2 (P), between תֻּבָל‎ and תִּירָס‎, = 1 Chronicles 1:5; also, מֶ֑שֶׁךְ‎, probably error, 1:17 (see מַשׁ‎); מֶ֑שֶׁךְPsalm 120:5 ("" קֵדָר‎; here without תֻּבָל‎); וּמ ׳תּוּבַלEzekiel 27:13; compare 32:26; 38:2 (both + תֻּבָל‎); so also ᵐ5Isaiah 66:19 (Lo StaJavan 8 Du CheHpt; see above מָשַׁךְ2); מ ראֹשׁ נְשִׂיא ׳גּוֺג וְתֻבָ֑לEzekiel 38:3; 39:1. ᵐ5Μοσοχ (Μεσοχ), Samaritan מושׁ(י)ך‎. — On identification compare Boch.; in Assyrian times they dwelt in west (or northwest) Armenia (compare Schrl.c.); in Persian times apparently farther northeast (southeast of Euxine Sea), compare Μοσχοι καὶ Τιβαρηνοι Herodiii. 94; vii. 78; also DiGenesis 10:2 and CheEncycl. Blb. Art. Geogr. (Biblical).