מַשָּׂא

mas.sa · burden

Hebrew · Strong's H4853 · Noun · Sounds like: mas-saw' · 66 occurrences

Word meanings

Senses and individuals

  • burden H4853A 38
  • oracle H4853B 28

Strong's dictionary

from נָשָׂא; a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly adoom, especially singing; mental, desire; burden, carry away, prophecy, [idiom] they set, song, tribute.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מַשָּׂא n.m. load, burden, lifting, bearing, tribute
Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מַשָּׂא n.m. utterance, oracle

Every occurrence

  1. Exodus 23:5 מַשָּׂא֔וֹ ma.sa.'O · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release it with him.

  2. Numbers 4:15 מַשָּׂ֥א ma.Sa' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And when Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp is set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch the sanctuary, lest they die. These things are the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.

  3. Numbers 4:19 מַשָּׂאֽוֹ׃ ma.sa.'O · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    but thus do unto them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach unto the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall go in, and appoint them every one to his service and to his burden;

  4. Numbers 4:24 וּלְמַשָּֽׂא׃ u.le.ma.Sa' · A person, place or thing

    This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:

  5. Numbers 4:27 מַשָּׂאָ֔ם ma.sa.'Am · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burden.

  6. Numbers 4:27 מַשָּׂאָֽם׃ ma.sa.'Am · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burden.

  7. Numbers 4:31 מַשָּׂאָ֔ם ma.sa.'Am · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And this is the charge of their burden, according to all their service in the tent of meeting: the boards of the tabernacle, and the bars thereof, and the pillars thereof, and the sockets thereof,

  8. Numbers 4:32 מַשָּׂאָֽם׃ ma.sa.'Am · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name ye shall appoint the instruments of the charge of their burden.

  9. Numbers 4:47 מַשָּׂ֖א ma.Sa' · A person, place or thing

    from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered in to do the work of service, and the work of bearing burdens in the tent of meeting,

  10. Numbers 4:49 מַשָּׂא֑וֹ ma.sa.'O · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    According to the commandment of Jehovah they were numbered by Moses, every one according to his service, and according to his burden: thus were they numbered of him, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

  11. Numbers 11:11 מַשָּׂ֛א ma.Sa' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Moses said unto Jehovah, Wherefore hast thou dealt ill with thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

  12. Numbers 11:17 בְּמַשָּׂ֣א be.ma.Sa' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

  13. Deuteronomy 1:12 וּמַֽשַּׂאֲכֶ֖ם u.ma.sa.'a.Khem · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    How can I myself alone bear your cumbrance, and your burden, and your strife?

  14. 2 Samuel 15:33 לְמַשָּֽׂא׃ le.ma.Sa' · A person, place or thing

    And David said unto him, If thou passest on with me, then thou wilt be a burden unto me:

  15. 2 Samuel 19:35 לְמַשָּׂ֔א le.ma.Sa' · A person, place or thing

    I am this day fourscore years old: can I discern between good and bad? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

  16. 2 Kings 5:17 מַשָּׂ֥א ma.Sa' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    And Naaman said, If not, yet, I pray thee, let there be given to thy servant two mules' burden of earth; for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt-offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto Jehovah.

  17. 2 Kings 8:9 מַשָּׂ֖א ma.Sa' · A person, place or thing: linked to the next word

    So Hazael went to meet him, and took a present with him, even of every good thing of Damascus, forty camels' burden, and came and stood before him, and said, Thy son Benhadad king of Syria hath sent me to thee, saying, Shall I recover of this sickness?

  18. 2 Kings 9:25 הַמַּשָּׂ֖א ha.ma.Sa' · A person, place or thing

    Then said Jehu to Bidkar his captain, Take up, and cast him in the portion of the field of Naboth the Jezreelite; for remember how that, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, Jehovah laid this burden upon him:

  19. 1 Chronicles 15:22 בְּמַשָּׂ֑א be.ma.Sa' · A person, place or thing

    And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.

  20. 1 Chronicles 15:22 בַּמַּשָּׂ֔א ba.ma.Sa' · A person, place or thing

    And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was over the song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.

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