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# עָמַס

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H6006

**load** — used 9 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

load [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6006/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

עָמַס: vb. load carry load [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6006/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. load. carry a load (NH id.; Ph. עמס carry; cf. poss. Arabic عَمِسَ gravis et obscurus fuit dies (Frey));— Impf. 3 ms. וַיַּעֲמֹס Gn 44:13, יַעֲמָס־ ψ 68:20; Pt. act. עֹמְסִים Ne 13:15; עֹמְשִׂים 4:11 (but v. infr.); sf. עֹמְסֶיהָ Zc 12:3; pass. עֲמֻסִים Is 46:3, עֲמוּסוֹת v 1;— load (obj. om.) upon (עַל) ass Gn 44:13 (E), Ne 13:15; so abs. 4:11, lit., si vera l. (v. Be-Ry Ryle); but read prob. חֲמֻשִׁים RyKau. carry a load ψ 68:20 (י׳, for (ל) his people), carry as a load Zc 12:3 (fig.), pass. Is 46:1 (lit.), v 3 (fig.).\*

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he loaded (3); \[are\] carried (1); \[those (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 68:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.20/#tree)

בָּ֤ר֣וּךְ אֲדֹנָי֮ י֤וֹם ׀ י֥וֹם יַֽעֲמָס־לָ֗נוּ הָ֘אֵ֤ל יְֽשׁוּעָתֵ֬נוּ סֶֽלָה׃

*Word for word:* \[be\].blessed Lord \[the\] day day he.carries.a.load for us (the) God salvation our Selah

*JPS 1917:* Blessed be the Lord, day by day He beareth our burden, even the God who is our salvation.

[Genesis 44:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.44.13/#tree)

וַֽיִּקְרְע֖וּ שִׂמְלֹתָ֑ם וַֽיַּעֲמֹס֙ אִ֣ישׁ עַל־חֲמֹר֔וֹ וַיָּשֻׁ֖בוּ הָעִֽירָה׃

*Word for word:* and they.tore clothes their and he.loaded each.man on donkey his and they.went.back to the city

*JPS 1917:* And they rent their clothes, and laded every man his ass, and returned to the city.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/6006.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1506/6006/): 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).