H4469 — מַמְסָךְ (mamçâk)¶

Core Data¶

Strong's: H4469
Original: מַמְסָךְ
Transliteration: mamçâk (mamsak)
Pronunciation: mam-sawk
Part of Speech: Masculine noun
Root: From מָסַךְ (H4537, masak) — to mix, mingle (especially of wine)
Occurrences: 2 in OT (unique verses: 2; token count: 2)
Books: 2 (Proverbs, Isaiah)
First Occurrence: Prov 23:30 — "They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine."
Hapax Legomenon: No (appears twice — but each sense is effectively a unicum within its book)

Lexicon Definition¶

From H4537 (masak, "to mix"); mixture, i.e. (specifically) wine mixed (with water or spices): — drink-offering, mixed wine.

Translation Distribution (KJV)¶

Translation	Count	%
mixed wine	1	50.0%
the drink offering	1	50.0%

With only two occurrences, each rendering is idiosyncratic to its context: Proverbs renders the word as a tangible beverage (mixed wine), Isaiah renders it as the cultic act of pouring out mixed wine to a deity (the drink offering).

Distribution by Book¶

Book	Count	Per 100 Verses
Proverbs	1	0.1
Isaiah	1	0.1

The word is confined to the wisdom tradition (Prov 23) and prophetic indictment (Isa 65). It does not appear in Torah, Psalms, or historical narrative. Both contexts are evaluative — one moral, one cultic — and both cast the mixing negatively.

Semantic Categories¶

1. Mixed / Spiced Wine as a Beverage (Prov 23:30)¶

The wine of the heavy drinker — prepared, blended, sought after. The mixing is with water, spices, or aromatics to intensify flavor or strength. The word occurs in a catalog of woe ("Who hath woe? who hath sorrow?") describing those who "tarry long at the wine."

Prov 23:30 — "They that tarry long at the wine; they that go to seek mixed wine (mamçâk)."

Here the mixture is the object of pursuit — the drunkard hunts blended wine for its potency. The parallelism sets mamçâk alongside simple yayin (wine) as its intensified counterpart.

2. Mingled Libation Poured to a Pagan Deity (Isa 65:11)¶

The same word names a cultic preparation — mixed wine poured out to the gods Gad (Fortune) and Meni (Destiny). The act is described in ritual verbs: "prepare a table… furnish the drink offering (mamçâk)."

Isa 65:11 — "But ye are they that forsake the LORD, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop (Gad), and that furnish the drink offering (mamçâk) unto that number (Meni)."

The KJV's drink offering here is unusual — H5262 (necek) is the standard word for drink offering. The choice of mamçâk in Isa 65:11 emphasizes the mixing itself — a blended, prepared libation for foreign gods, not the ordinary poured offering prescribed in Torah.

Common Collocations¶

Because the word occurs only twice, every co-occurring term is by definition a 50% collocation. The list is best read as "words that share a verse with mamçâk," not as statistical patterns.

Word	Strong's	Co-occurrences	Typical Pattern
יַיִן (yayin)	H3196	1x (Prov 23:30)	Parallel to mamçâk — plain wine intensified to mixed wine
בּוֹא (bo, "come, go")	H935	1x (Prov 23:30)	"go to seek" mixed wine — the hunt for the blend
חָקַר (chaqar, "search out")	H2713	1x (Prov 23:30)	"seek" — parallel verb for the drunkard's quest
גַּד (Gad, "Fortune")	H1408	1x (Isa 65:11)	The deity for whom the table is spread
מְנִי (Meni, "Destiny")	H4507	1x (Isa 65:11)	The deity to whom the mamçâk is poured
שֻׁלְחָן (shulchan, "table")	H7979	1x (Isa 65:11)	The cultic table set for the gods
עָרַךְ (arak, "arrange, set in order")	H6186	1x (Isa 65:11)	The ritual preparation verb
מָלֵא (male, "fill, furnish")	H4390	1x (Isa 65:11)	"Furnish" the mamçâk — the filling/pouring act
יְהֹוָה (YHWH)	H3068	1x (Isa 65:11)	The LORD whom the idolaters forsake
קֹדֶשׁ (qodesh, "holy")	H6944	1x (Isa 65:11)	God's "holy mountain" — what is forgotten
עָזַב (azab, "forsake")	H5800	1x (Isa 65:11)	Forsaking YHWH for the pagan libation
הַר (har, "mountain")	H2022	1x (Isa 65:11)	"Holy mountain" — the forsaken site
אָחַר (achar, "tarry, delay")	H309	1x (Prov 23:30)	"Tarry long at the wine"
שָׁכֵחַ (shakeach, "forgetful")	H7913	1x (Isa 65:11)	Those who "forget" God's holy mountain
עַל (al, "upon")	H5921	1x (both)	Positional preposition

Word Family / Cognates¶

H4537 מָסַךְ (masak) — parent verb: to mix, pour, mingle (especially wine). Occurs in Ps 102:9; Prov 9:2, 9:5; Isa 5:22; 19:14.
H4538 מֶסֶךְ (mesek) — noun from same root: a mixture (Ps 75:8 — "a cup… full of mixture").

Synonyms¶

H3196 יַיִן (yayin) — the base wine term; search_relationships.py links it to mamçâk because Prov 23:30 treats the mixed drink as a specialized wine preparation.

Antonyms¶

No antonyms were returned by search_relationships.py for H4469.

Easily Confused Words¶

Word	Strong's	Shared Semantic Space	Key Difference
יַיִן (yayin)	H3196	wine	General word for wine; mamçâk is specifically mixed/spiced wine. In Prov 23:30 the two stand in synonymous parallel, yayin being the simple term and mamçâk its prepared form.
נֵסֶךְ (necek)	H5262	drink offering	Necek is the standard, Torah-legislated drink offering (Gen 35:14; Exod 29:40; Num 15:5); mamçâk in Isa 65:11 is an irregular, apostate mingled libation to pagan deities.
מֶסֶךְ (mesek)	H4538	mixture	Sibling noun from the same root; mesek describes a mixed cup of judgment (Ps 75:8), mamçâk the mixed cup of pleasure (Prov) or idolatry (Isa).
שֵׁכָר (shekar)	H7941	strong drink	Fermented beverage other than grape wine; mamçâk is mixed wine proper. Often paired with yayin (e.g., Isa 5:22).
חֶמֶר (chemer)	H2561	wine	Red/foaming wine; descriptive term without the "mixing" emphasis of mamçâk. Appears in Deut 32:14 and Isa 27:2.

LXX Mapping¶

No direct LXX alignment is registered for H4469 in the tool's cross-testament index. In practice the LXX handles each occurrence differently: - Prov 23:30 — rendered periphrastically (the Greek tradition describes the action, not a noun-for-noun match). - Isa 65:11 — rendered as κέρασμα / related terms for mixed drink, without stable equivalence.

Because there is no dominant Greek counterpart (co-occurrence threshold < 20), no cross-testament trace (TR-) file is generated.

Semantic Domains¶

[001002010007] Liquids — search_relationships.py places mamçâk in the broader liquids field alongside beverage terms such as H1818 דָּם, H2461 חָלָב, H2534 חֵמָה, and H2558 חֹמֶץ.
[001002008003005] Wine — more specifically, the word sits in the wine lexicon with neighbors such as H2561 חֶמֶר, H3196 יַיִן, H4197 מֶזֶג, and H4477 מַמְתַקִּים.