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# מַשָּׁאָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4859

**loan** — 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

loan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4859/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַשָּׁאָה: n.f. loan [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4859/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. loan (on pledge);—cstr. כִּי תַשֶּׁה בְרֵעֲךָ מַשַּׁאת מְאוּמָה Dt 24:10; pl. עֹרְבִים מַשָּׁאוֹת Pr 22:26 those pledging (giving security for) debts.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Proverbs 22:26](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.26/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.22.26/#tree)

אַל־תְּהִ֥י בְתֹֽקְעֵי־כָ֑ף בַּ֝עֹרְבִ֗ים מַשָּׁאֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* do.not be among \[those.who\].strike (of).a.palm among \[those who\].stand.surety.for debts

*JPS 1917:* Be thou not of them that strike hands, or of them that are sureties for debts;

[Deuteronomy 24:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.24.10/#tree)

כִּֽי־תַשֶּׁ֥ה בְרֵֽעֲךָמַשַּׁ֣את מְא֑וּמָה לֹא־תָבֹ֥א אֶל־בֵּית֖וֹ לַעֲבֹ֥ט עֲבֹטֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) you.will.lend to neighbor your a.loan of.anything not you.will.go into house his to take.as.pledge pledge his

*JPS 1917:* When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4859/): 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).