ne.sekh denotes a poured offering, regularly supplied with sacrifices and sometimes named in clauses about an image.

The term most often denotes a poured offering accompanying burnt, grain, sin, or peace offerings, sometimes specified as wine and sometimes withheld or poured to other gods. A small group of clauses concerning idols and metalworkers instead places the construct form in an image-making context.

1. Poured offering accompanying sacrifice · dominant

   The singular and plural noun forms occur with other offerings and sacrifices: in Exodus 29:40 the APB renders a quarter-hin provision of wine for one lamb, and in Numbers 28:14 it renders portions assigned for bulls, rams, and lambs. The same offering may be poured in non-approved worship contexts; in Jeremiah 19:13 the APB renders drink offerings poured out to other gods, while Joel 1:9 describes its removal from the house of the LORD.

   Exodus 29:40Numbers 28:14Leviticus 23:13Jeremiah 19:13Joel 1:9Ezekiel 20:28
2. Image in a metalworker-and-idol clause · rare

   In the construct-form clauses of Jeremiah 10:14 and Jeremiah 51:17, the term occurs where a metalsmith is shamed by an idol and the APB renders the resulting object as a false image. Isaiah 48:5 likewise places the construct form beside an idol and a carved image as something claimed to have commanded events; the precise English contribution of this term is less clear.

   Jeremiah 10:14Jeremiah 51:17Isaiah 48:5Isaiah 41:29

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the sacrificial clauses, the APB commonly renders the term as “drink offering” or “drink offerings,” including offerings described as being poured out. In Jeremiah 10:14 and Jeremiah 51:17, however, it renders the surrounding image clause with “images” and “molten image”; That variation cannot by itself fix the term's English equivalent.