מַס
maç · mas
properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor
Lexicon
Derivation: or מִס; from H4549 (מָסַס);
properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: discomfited, levy, task(-master), tribute(-tary).
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to support and uphold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to support and uphold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מַס above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
23 occurrences · 23 OT · 0 NT · 14 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- to tribute2 · 9%
- was over the tribute2 · 9%
- a tribute2 · 9%
- unto tribute1 · 4%
- over them taskmasters1 · 4%
- therein shall be tributaries1 · 4%
- under tribute1 · 4%
- them, and became tributaries1 · 4%
- became tributaries1 · 4%
- so that they became tributaries1 · 4%
- a levy1 · 4%
- and the levy1 · 4%
- was over the levy1 · 4%
- of the levy1 · 4%
- who was over the tribute1 · 4%
- tribute1 · 4%
- that was over the tribute1 · 4%
- shall be under tribute1 · 4%
- shall be discomfited1 · 4%
- how is she become tributary1 · 4%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.