- מסכה I
- מַסֵּכָהI f. (b. h.; נָסֵךְ) molten image. Snh.103b (play on Is. 28:20 והמסכהוכ׳) כונס כנד מי הים תֵּעָשֶה לו מ׳ צרה should a molten image be made a rival to him ‘who gathers the waters of the sea together like heaps?; Num. R. s. 7; Yoma 9b. Sifra Kdosh., beg. (idols are called) מ׳ע״ש שהם ניסוכים massekhah, because they are cast.
Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature. Jastrow, Marcus. 1903.
