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# מַסָּה

Biblical Hebrew

**despair** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

despair [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e1_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַסָּה³: n.f. despair [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e1_5b8_5bc_5d4/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. despair (lit. melting, failing);—only לְמַסַּת נְקִיִּים יִלִעָ֑ג Jb 9:23 at the despair of innocent ones he mocketh; so 𝔗 Ew Di Bu Du \> Ges Hi al. trial (by calamity), √ נסה.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (5 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: despair (1).

## In the verses

[Job 9:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.9.23/#tree)

אִם־שׁ֭וֹט יָמִ֣ית פִּתְאֹ֑ם לְמַסַּ֖ת נְקִיִּ֣ם יִלְעָֽג׃

*Word for word:* if a.scourge it.kills suddenly (to).\[the\] despair of.innocent.\[ones\] he.mocks

*JPS 1917:* If the scourge slay suddenly, He will mock at the calamity of the guiltless.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e1_5b8_5bc_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e1_5b8_5bc_5d4/): 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).