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Lexicon :: Strong's H4853 - maśśā'

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מַשָּׂא
Transliteration
maśśā'
Pronunciation
mas-saw'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun, proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 1421d,1421e

Strong’s Definitions

מַשָּׂא massâʼ, mas-saw'; from H5375; a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly a doom, especially singing; mental, desire:—burden, carry away, prophecy, × they set, song, tribute.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 66x

The KJV translates Strong's H4853 in the following manner: burden (57x), song (3x), prophecy (2x), set (1x), exaction (1x), carry away (1x), tribute (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 66x
The KJV translates Strong's H4853 in the following manner: burden (57x), song (3x), prophecy (2x), set (1x), exaction (1x), carry away (1x), tribute (1x).
masculine noun

  1. load, bearing, tribute, burden, lifting

    1. load, burden

    2. lifting, uplifting, that to which the soul lifts itself up

    3. bearing, carrying

    4. tribute, that which is carried or brought or borne

  2. utterance, oracle, burden

    proper masculine noun (BDB)

    1. Massa = "burden"

  3. a son of Ishmael

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מַשָּׂא massâʼ, mas-saw'; from H5375; a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly a doom, especially singing; mental, desire:—burden, carry away, prophecy, × they set, song, tribute.
STRONGS H4853: Abbreviations
† II. מַשָּׂא noun masculinePsalm 38:5 load, burden, lifting, bearing, tribute; — מ׳ absolute Nehemiah 13:19 +; construct 2 Kings 5:17 +; suffix מַשָּׂאוֺ Exodus 23:5 + 2 times; מַשַּׂאֲכֶם Deuteronomy 1:12; מַשָּׂאָם Numbers 4:27 + 2 times; —
1. load, burden of ass Exodus 23:5 (E), mules 2 Kings 5:17, camels 2 Kings 8:9, compare Isaiah 46:1, 2; hanging on a peg Isaiah 22:25 (figurative); forbidden on Sabbath Jeremiah 17:21, 22, 24, 27; Nehemiah 13:15, 19; figurative of people as burden Numbers 11:11, 17 (JE), Deuteronomy 1:12, compare עַלֿ הָיָה לְמ׳ 2 Samuel 15:33; 2 Samuel 19:36 (אֶלֿ), also וָאֶהְיֶה עָלַי לְמַשָּׂא Job 7:20; of iniquities Psalm 38:5. — Hosea 8:10 read מְשֹׁחַ, so Greek Version of the LXX We Now GASm.
2. verbal noun, lifting, uplifting, only נַפְשָׁם מ׳ Ezekiel 24:25 the uplifting of their soul, i.e. that to which they lift up their soul, their heart's desire.
3. verbal noun, bearing, carrying, Numbers 4:24 (+ לַעֲבֹד), 2 Chronicles 20:25; 35:3 (בַּכָּתֵף), so probably 1 Chronicles 15:22 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 15:27 (compare Be Kau; > singing, uplifting of voice, e.g. Öttli); especially of responsibility and duty of bearing sacred vessels (often || עֲבֹדָה, פְּקֻדָּה) Numbers 4:15, 19, 27 (twice in verse); Numbers 4:49, עֲבֹדַת מ׳ Numbers 4:47, מִשְׁמֶרֶת מ׳ Numbers 4:31; Numbers 4:32.
4. perhaps what is carried, brought, i.e. tribute כֶּסֶף מ׳ 2 Chronicles 17:11 silver as tribute (+ מִנְחָה; compare נשׂא
Qal; others, silver by the load i.e. in great quantity). — I. מַשָּׂא see above.

†III. מַשָּׂא noun masculineIsaiah 14:28 utterance, oracle (compare נשׂא 1b (6); GfJeremiah 23:33); — מ׳ absolute Isaiah 14:28 +; usually construct Isaiah 13:1 +; — of prophetic utterance: 2 Kings 9:25; Isaiah 14:28; Ezekiel 12:10; 2 Chronicles 24:27 (with עַל); בָבֶל מ׳ Isaiah 13:1, מוֺאָב מ׳ Isaiah 15:1, compare Isaiah 17:1; Isaiah 19:1; Isaiah 21:1, 11; Isaiah 22:1; Isaiah 23:1; Isaiah 30:6; Nahum 1:1; בערב מ׳ Isaiah 21:13 is later insert (Di); מ׳ = revelation, אֲשֶׁר חָזָה חֲבַקּוּק הַנָּבִיא הַמּ׳ Habakkuk 1:1; י׳ מ׳ utterance of י׳ Jeremiah 23:33, 34, 36, 38 (3 times in verse) (compare 2 Kings 9:25), see also 2 Kings 9:33b (read אַתֶּם הַמַּשָּׂא), with word-play, — followed by וְנָטַשְׁתִּי 2 Kings 9:36b; דְבַר י׳ מ׳ Zechariah 9:1 (+ בארץ), Zechariah 12:1 (+ עַליִֿשְׂרָאֵל), Malachi 1:1 (+ אֶליִֿשׂ׳). — Proverbs 31:1 see I. מַשָּׂא; in Proverbs 30:1 read מִמַּשָּׂא from Massa (Mühlau, De), or הַמַּשָּׂאִי (Wild), which however is perhaps not original, but borrowed from Proverbs 31:1 (compare Wildon the passage FrankenbSpr. p. 5; corrupt name of Agur's home or tribe, Kau).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

23:5; 23:5

Numbers

4:15; 4:19; 4:24; 4:27; 4:27; 4:31; 4:32; 4:47; 4:49; 11:11; 11:17

Deuteronomy

1:12; 1:12

2 Samuel

15:33; 19:36

2 Kings

5:17; 5:17; 8:9; 9:25; 9:25; 9:33; 9:36

1 Chronicles

15:22; 15:27

2 Chronicles

17:11; 20:25; 24:27; 35:3

Nehemiah

13:15; 13:19; 13:19

Job

7:20

Psalms

38:5; 38:5

Proverbs

30:1; 31:1; 31:1

Isaiah

13:1; 13:1; 14:28; 14:28; 14:28; 15:1; 17:1; 19:1; 21:1; 21:11; 21:13; 22:1; 22:25; 23:1; 30:6; 46:1; 46:2

Jeremiah

17:21; 17:22; 17:24; 17:27; 23:33; 23:33; 23:34; 23:36; 23:38

Ezekiel

12:10; 24:25

Hosea

8:10

Nahum

1:1

Habakkuk

1:1

Zechariah

9:1; 12:1

Malachi

1:1

H4853

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Strong's Number H4853 matches the Hebrew מַשָּׂא (maśśā'),
which occurs 65 times in 59 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Exo 23:5–Jer 23:36)

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 23:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:5 - If you see the donkey of someone who hates you fallen down under its load, do not leave it there; be sure you help them with it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:15 - “After Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy furnishings and all the holy articles, and when the camp is ready to move, only then are the Kohathites to come and do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy things or they will die. The Kohathites are to carry those things that are in the tent of meeting.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:19 - So that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go into the sanctuary and assign to each man his work and what he is to carry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:24 - “This is the service of the Gershonite clans in their carrying and their other work:

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:27

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:27 - All their service, whether carrying or doing other work, is to be done under the direction of Aaron and his sons. You shall assign to them as their responsibility all they are to carry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:31 - As part of all their service at the tent, they are to carry the frames of the tabernacle, its crossbars, posts and bases,

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:32

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:32 - as well as the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, ropes, all their equipment and everything related to their use. Assign to each man the specific things he is to carry.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:47

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:47 - All the men from thirty to fifty years of age who came to do the work of serving and carrying the tent of meeting

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:49 - At the LORD’s command through Moses, each was assigned his work and told what to carry. Thus they were counted, as the LORD commanded Moses.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:11

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:11 - He asked the LORD, “Why have you brought this trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me?

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 11:17

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 11:17 - I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the power of the Spirit that is on you and put it on them. They will share the burden of the people with you so that you will not have to carry it alone.

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Unchecked Copy Box Deu 1:12

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:12 - But how can I bear your problems and your burdens and your disputes all by myself?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 15:33

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 15:33 - David said to him, “If you go with me, you will be a burden to me.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 19:35

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:35 - I am now eighty years old. Can I tell the difference between what is enjoyable and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats and drinks? Can I still hear the voices of male and female singers? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 5:17

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 5:17 - “If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much earth as a pair of mules can carry, for your servant will never again make burnt offerings and sacrifices to any other god but the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 8:9

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:9 - Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him as a gift forty camel-loads of all the finest wares of Damascus. He went in and stood before him, and said, “Your son Ben-Hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 9:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 9:25 - Jehu said to Bidkar, his chariot officer, “Pick him up and throw him on the field that belonged to Naboth the Jezreelite. Remember how you and I were riding together in chariots behind Ahab his father when the LORD spoke this prophecy against him:

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:22

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:22 - Kenaniah the head Levite was in charge of the singing; that was his responsibility because he was skillful at it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ch 15:27

Unchecked Copy Box1Ch 15:27 - Now David was clothed in a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and as were the musicians, and Kenaniah, who was in charge of the singing of the choirs. David also wore a linen ephod.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 17:11

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 17:11 - Some Philistines brought Jehoshaphat gifts and silver as tribute, and the Arabs brought him flocks: seven thousand seven hundred rams and seven thousand seven hundred goats.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 20:25

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 20:25 - So Jehoshaphat and his men went to carry off their plunder, and they found among them a great amount of equipment and clothing[fn] and also articles of value—more than they could take away. There was so much plunder that it took three days to collect it.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 24:27

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 24:27 - The account of his sons, the many prophecies about him, and the record of the restoration of the temple of God are written in the annotations on the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son succeeded him as king.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ch 35:3

Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 35:3 - He said to the Levites, who instructed all Israel and who had been consecrated to the LORD: “Put the sacred ark in the temple that Solomon son of David king of Israel built. It is not to be carried about on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and his people Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:15 - In those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, together with wine, grapes, figs and all other kinds of loads. And they were bringing all this into Jerusalem on the Sabbath. Therefore I warned them against selling food on that day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 13:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 13:19 - When evening shadows fell on the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I ordered the doors to be shut and not opened until the Sabbath was over. I stationed some of my own men at the gates so that no load could be brought in on the Sabbath day.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 7:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:20 - If I have sinned, what have I done to you, you who see everything we do? Why have you made me your target? Have I become a burden to you?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 38:4

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 38:4 - My guilt has overwhelmed me like a burden too heavy to bear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 30:1 - The sayings of Agur son of Jakeh—an inspired utterance. This man’s utterance to Ithiel: “I am weary, God, but I can prevail.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Pro 31:1

Unchecked Copy BoxPro 31:1 - The sayings of King Lemuel—an inspired utterance his mother taught him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 13:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:1 - A prophecy against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz saw:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 14:28

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 14:28 - This prophecy came in the year King Ahaz died:

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 15:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 15:1 - A prophecy against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night!

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 17:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 17:1 - A prophecy against Damascus: “See, Damascus will no longer be a city but will become a heap of ruins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:1 - A prophecy against Egypt: See, the LORD rides on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the hearts of the Egyptians melt with fear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 21:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:1 - A prophecy against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the southland, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 21:11

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:11 - A prophecy against Dumah[fn]: Someone calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 21:13

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:13 - A prophecy against Arabia: You caravans of Dedanites, who camp in the thickets of Arabia,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:1 - A prophecy against the Valley of Vision: What troubles you now, that you have all gone up on the roofs,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 22:25

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 22:25 - “In that day,” declares the LORD Almighty, “the peg driven into the firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and will fall, and the load hanging on it will be cut down.” The LORD has spoken.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 23:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:1 - A prophecy against Tyre: Wail, you ships of Tarshish! For Tyre is destroyed and left without house or harbor. From the land of Cyprus word has come to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 30:6 - A prophecy concerning the animals of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lions and lionesses, of adders and darting snakes, the envoys carry their riches on donkeys’ backs, their treasures on the humps of camels, to that unprofitable nation,

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:1 - Bel bows down, Nebo stoops low; their idols are borne by beasts of burden.[fn] The images that are carried about are burdensome, a burden for the weary.

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Unchecked Copy Box Isa 46:2

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 46:2 - They stoop and bow down together; unable to rescue the burden, they themselves go off into captivity.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:21 - This is what the LORD says: Be careful not to carry a load on the Sabbath day or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:22 - Do not bring a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy, as I commanded your ancestors.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:24 - But if you are careful to obey me, declares the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath, but keep the Sabbath day holy by not doing any work on it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 17:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:27 - But if you do not obey me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying any load as you come through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in the gates of Jerusalem that will consume her fortresses.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:33

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:33 - “When these people, or a prophet or a priest, ask you, ‘What is the message from the LORD?’ say to them, ‘What message? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:34

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:34 - If a prophet or a priest or anyone else claims, ‘This is a message from the LORD,’ I will punish them and their household.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jer 23:36

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:36 - But you must not mention ‘a message from the LORD’ again, because each one’s word becomes their own message. So you distort the words of the living God, the LORD Almighty, our God.

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