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# מָאַס

Biblical Hebrew

**flow** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

flow [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d0_5b7_5e1/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מָאַס²: vb. flow, run [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d0_5b7_5e1/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. flow, run (Aramaic id., but rare and dub.;—secondary form of מסס q.v.);—Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּמָּאֵס Jb 7:5 my skin hath hardened and run (i.e. again, afresh; \> GHoffm Du read וַיִּמַּס, Bu וַיִּמָּאס, √ מסס); 3 mpl. יִמָּֽאֲסוּ כְּמוֹ מַיִם ψ 58:8 (fig. of annihilation of wicked).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: it has oozed (1); may they flow (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 58:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.8/#tree)

יִמָּאֲס֣וּ כְמוֹ־מַ֭יִם יִתְהַלְּכוּ־לָ֑מוֹ יִדְרֹ֥ךְ חִ֝צָּ֗יו כְּמ֣וֹ יִתְמֹלָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* may.they.flow like waters \[which\].they.go.about (for themselves may.he.bend arrows his like let.them.be.cut.off

*JPS 1917:* Let them melt away as water that runneth apace; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

[Job 7:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.5/#tree)

לָ֘בַ֤שׁ בְּשָׂרִ֣י רִ֭מָּה וְג֣וּשׁ עָפָ֑ר עוֹרִ֥י רָ֝גַ֗ע וַיִּמָּאֵֽס׃

*Word for word:* it.is.clothed flesh my maggot\[s\] and clod\[s\] of.dust skin my it.has.become.hard and it.has.oozed

*JPS 1917:* My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d0_5b7_5e1.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d0_5b7_5e1/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).