4853. massa'
Lexical Summary
massa': a load, burden, lifting, bearing, tribute
Original Word: מַשָּׂא
Transliteration: massa'
Phonetic Spelling: (mas-saw')
Part of Speech: noun masculine; noun masculine
Short Definition: a load, burden, lifting, bearing, tribute
Meaning: a burden, tribute, porterage, an utterance, chiefly a, doom, singing, mental, desire
Strong's Concordance
burden, carry away, prophecy, they set, song, tribute

From nasa'; a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly a doom, especially singing; mental, desire -- burden, carry away, prophecy, X they set, song, tribute.

see HEBREW nasa'

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H4853. massa

' II. מַשָּׂאnoun masculinePsalm 38:5 load, burden, lifting, bearing, tribute; — ׳מ‎ absolute Nehemiah 13:19 +; construct 2 Kings 5:17 +; suffix מַשָּׂאוֺExodus 23:5 2t.; מַשַּׂאֲכֶםDeuteronomy 1:12; מַשָּׂאָםNumbers 4:27 2t.; —

1 load, burden of ass Exodus 23:5 (E), mules 2 Kings 5:17, camels 8:9, compare Isaiah 46:1-2, hanging on a peg 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 לְמ ׳הָיָה עַלֿ2 Samuel 15:33; 19:36 (אֶלֿ‎), also לְמַשָּׂא עָלַי וָאֶהְיֶהJob 7:20; of iniquities Psalm 38:5. — Hosea 8:10 read מְשֹׁחַ‎, so ᵐ5‎ We Now GASm.

2 verbal noun, lifting, uplifting, only ׳מ נַפְשָׁםEzekiel 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); 15:27 (compare Be Kau; > singing, uplifting of voice, e.g. Öttli); especially of responsibility and duty of bearing sacred vessels (often "" מְּקֻדָּה עֲבֹדָה,‎) Numbers 4:15, 19, 27 (twice in verse); 4:49, מ ׳עֲבֹדַת4:47, מ ׳מִשְׁמֶרֶת4:31; 4:32.

4 perhaps what is carried, brought, i.e. tribute מ ׳כֶּסֶף2 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. מַשָּׂאnoun masculineIsaiah 14:28 utterance, oracle (compare נשׂא1b (6); GfJeremiah 23:33); — ׳מ‎ absolute Isaiah 14:28 +; usually construct 13:1 +; — of prophetic utterance: 2 Kings 9:25; Isaiah 14:28; Ezekiel 12:10; 2 Chronicles 24:27 (with עַל‎); ׳מ בָבֶלIsaiah 13:1, ׳מ מוֺאָב15:1, compare 17:1; 19:1; 21:1, 11; 22:1; 23:1; 30:6; Nahum 1:1; ׳מ בערבIsaiah 21:13 is later insert (Di); ׳מ‎ = revelation, ׳הַמּ הַנָּבִיא חֲבַקּוּק חָזָה אֲשֶׁרHabakkuk 1:1; ׳מ ׳יutterance of ׳יJeremiah 23:33-34, 36, 38 (3 t. in verse) (compare 2 Kings 9:25), see also 9:33 b (read הַמַּשָּׂא אַתֶּם‎), with word-play, — followed by וְנָטַשְׁתִּי9:36 b; ׳מ י ׳דְבַרZechariah 9:1 (+ בארץ‎), 12:1 (+ עַליִֿשְׂרָאֵל‎), Malachi 1:1 (+ ׳אֶליִֿשׂ‎). — Proverbs 31:1 see I. מַשָּׂא‎, p. 601 above; in 30:1 read מִמַּשָּׂאfrom Massa (Mühlau, De), or הַמַּשָּׂאִי‎ (Wild), which however is perhaps not original, but borrowed from 31:1 (compare Wildon the passage FrankenbSpr. p. 5; corrupt name of Agur's home or tribe, Kau).








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