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# מַשָּׂא

Biblical Hebrew

**utterance** — used 22 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

utterance [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e9_5b8_5bc_5c2_5d0/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַשָּׂא⁴: n.m. utterance, oracle [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e9_5b8_5bc_5c2_5d0/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 14:28 utterance, oracle (cf. נשׂא 1 b (6); Gf Je 23:33);—מ׳ abs. Is 14:28 +; usually cstr. 13:1 +;—of prophetic utterance: 2 K 9:25 Is 14:28 Ez 12:10 2 Ch 24:27 (c. עַל); מ׳ בָבֶל Is 13:1, מ׳ מוֹאָב 15:1, cf. 17:1; 19:1; 21:1, 11; 22:1; 23:1; 30:6 Na 1:1; מ׳ בערב Is 21:13 is later ins. (Di); מ׳ = revelation, הַמּ׳ אֲשֶׁר חָזָה חֲבַקּוּק הַנָּבִיא Hb 1:1; מ׳ י׳ utterance of י׳ Je 23:33, 34, 36, 38(×3) (cf. 2 K 9:25), vid. also v 33b (read אַתֶּם הַמַּשָּׂא), with word-play,—sq. וְנָטַשְׁתִּי, v 36b; מ׳ דְבַר י׳ Zc 9:1 (+ בארץ), 12:1 (+ עַל־יִשְׂרָאֵל), Mal 1:1 (+ אֶל־יִשׂ׳).—Pr 31:1 v. i. מַשָּׂא, p. 601 supr.; in 30:1 read מִמַּשָּׂא from Massa (Mühlau, De), or הַמַּשָּׂאִי (Wild), which however is perhaps not original, but borrowed from 31:1 (cf. Wildad loc. FrankenbergSpr. p. 5; corrupt name of Agur’s home or tribe, Kau).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 21 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, 0 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the oracle (12); oracle (5); \[the\] oracle (3).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 13:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.13.1/#tree)

מַשָּׂ֖א בָּבֶ֑ל אֲשֶׁ֣ר חָזָ֔ה יְשַׁעְיָ֖הוּ בֶּן־אָמֽוֹץ׃

*Word for word:* the.oracle of.Babylon which he.saw Isaiah the.son of.Amoz

*JPS 1917:* The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

[Nahum 1:1](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.1/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/NAM.1.1/#tree)

מַשָּׂ֖א נִֽינְוֵ֑ה סֵ֧פֶר חֲז֛וֹן נַח֖וּם הָאֶלְקֹשִֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* the.oracle of.Nineveh the.document of.the.vision of.Nahum the Elkoshite

*JPS 1917:* THE BURDEN of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e9_5b8_5bc_5c2_5d0.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b7_5e9_5b8_5bc_5c2_5d0/): 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).