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. Nehemiah 13:15 מַשָּׂ֔א ma.Sa' · A person, place or thing

    In those days saw I in Judah some men treading wine-presses on the sabbath, and bringing in sheaves, and lading asses therewith; as also wine, grapes, and figs, and all manner of burdens, which they brought into Jerusalem on the sabbath day: and I testified against them in the day wherein they sold victuals.

  2. Nehemiah 13:19 מַשָּׂ֖א ma.Sa' · A person, place or thing

    And it came to pass that, when the gates of Jerusalem began to be dark before the sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut, and commanded that they should not be opened till after the sabbath: and some of my servants set I over the gates, that there should no burden be brought in on the sabbath day.

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