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# מַסָּע

Biblical Hebrew

**quarry** — 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

quarry [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e1_5b8_5bc_5e2/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַסָּע²: quarry quarrying [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e1_5b8_5bc_5e2/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] quarry or quarrying;— only abs. as adv. acc., אֶבֶן שְׁלֵמָה מַסָּע 1 K 6:7 stone perfect (at the) quarry (or at quarrying, i.e. when it was quarried; cf. Benz; text dub.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (5 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: quarry (1).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 6:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.6.7/#tree)

וְהַבַּ֙יִת֙ בְּהִבָּ֣נֹת֔וֹ אֶֽבֶן־שְׁלֵמָ֥ה מַסָּ֖ע נִבְנָ֑ה וּמַקָּב֤וֹת וְהַגַּרְזֶן֙ כָּל־כְּלִ֣י בַרְזֶ֔ל לֹֽא־נִשְׁמַ֥ע בַּבַּ֖יִת בְּהִבָּנֹתֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and the house when it was.built stone perfect quarry it.was.built and hammers and (the) axe any article of.iron not it.was.heard in the house when it was.built

*JPS 1917:* For the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building. —

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e1_5b8_5bc_5e2.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_5e2/): 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).