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# מַסָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4532

**Massah** — used 5 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

Massah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4532/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַסָּה⁵: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4532/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. where Israel tried י׳ in the wilderness, Ex 17:7 (JE), Dt 6:16; 9:22 ψ 95:8 (all 𝔊 (ὁ) πειρασμός), where Levi was tested Dt 33:8 (𝔊 πείρᾳ). v. Gall Kultstätten 32 interprets as place of trial (ancient judgment-place) and identif. with Ḳadesh, called also מְרִיבָה (מֵי) and עֵין מִשְׁפָּט.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Massah (4); of Massah (1).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 6:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.6.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.6.16/#tree)

לֹ֣א תְנַסּ֔וּ אֶת־יְהוָ֖ה אֱלֹהֵיכֶ֑ם כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר נִסִּיתֶ֖ם בַּמַּסָּֽה׃

*Word for word:* not you.will.put.to.the.test (et) Yahweh God your just as you.put.\[him\].to.the.test at (the) Massah

*JPS 1917:* Ye shall not try the LORD your God, as ye tried Him in Massah.

[Psalms 95:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.95.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.95.8/#tree)

אַל־תַּקְשׁ֣וּ לְ֭בַבְכֶם כִּמְרִיבָ֑ה כְּי֥וֹם מַ֝סָּ֗ה בַּמִּדְבָּֽר׃

*Word for word:* do.not harden heart your like Meribah like the.day of.Massah in the wilderness

*JPS 1917:* 'Harden not your heart, as at Meribah, as in the day of Massah in the wilderness;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4532.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4532/): 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).