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# מַסַּע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4550

**pulling up** — used 12 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

pulling up [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4550/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַסַּע²: pulling up, breaking [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4550/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] pulling up, breaking camp, setting out, journey;—abs. מ׳ Nu 10:2; Dt 10:11; pl. cstr. מַסְעֵי Nu 10:28; 33:1; sf. מַסָּעָיו Gn 13:3, מַסְעֵיהֶם Ex 17:1 + 6 times;— pulling up, breaking camp (c. acc. מַחֲנֶה; Ges§ 45e, 115d) Nu 10:2. setting out Nu 10:6, cf. v 28. station, stage, journey (by stages), וַיֵּלֶךְ לְמ׳ Gn 13:3 and he went by (according to) his journeyings (cf. הלך, p. 231 a supr.); לְמַסְעֵיהֶם Ex 17:1 cf. 40:36, 38; Nu 10:12 (all P; all c. נָסַע), 33:1, 2 (‖ מוֹצָאֵיהֶם, v 2 (‖ id.); קוּם לֵךְ לְמַסַּע Dt 10:11 for journeying (v. Dr).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 11 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: journeyings (4); their settings (3); \[are\] the journeyings (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 10:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.10.28/#tree)

אֵ֛לֶּה מַסְעֵ֥י בְנֵֽי־יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל לְצִבְאֹתָ֑ם וַיִּסָּֽעוּ׃ס

*Word for word:* these \[are\].the.settings.out of.the.people of.Israel to their.military groups and they.set.out

*JPS 1917:* Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their hosts. — And they set forward.

[Exodus 40:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.40.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/EXO.40.36/#tree)

וּבְהֵעָל֤וֹת הֶֽעָנָן֙ מֵעַ֣ל הַמִּשְׁכָּ֔ן יִסְע֖וּ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל בְּכֹ֖ל מַסְעֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and when was.taken.up the cloud from over the tabernacle they.set.out the.people of.Israel in all out their.settings

*JPS 1917:* And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward, throughout all their journeys.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4550.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4550/): 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).