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# מַשָּׂא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H4854

**Massa** — 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

Massa [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4854/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

מַשָּׂא: n.pr.gent. et terr. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4854/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. et terr. ‘son’ of Ishmael Gn 25:14 = 1 Ch 1:30. 𝔊 Μασση, Μασσα, etc. realm of king Lemuel Pr 31:1 De Now Str Wild.—Perhaps = N. Arabic Masʾu Schr COT Gn 25, 14; KGF 102, 262 ff., 364 DlPar 302 f.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Massa (2).

## In the verses

[Genesis 25:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.14/#tree)

וּמִשְׁמָ֥ע וְדוּמָ֖ה וּמַשָּֽׂא׃

*Word for word:* and Mishma and Dumah and Massa

*JPS 1917:* and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa;

[1 Chronicles 1:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.30/#tree)

מִשְׁמָ֣ע וְדוּמָ֔ה מַשָּׂ֖א חֲדַ֥ד וְתֵימָֽא׃

*Word for word:* Mishma and Dumah Massa Hadad and Tema

*JPS 1917:* Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/4854.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4854/): 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).