מַשָּׂא
massâʼ · mas-saw'
a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly adoom, especially singing; mental, desire
Lexicon
Derivation: from H5375 (נָשָׂא);
a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly adoom, especially singing; mental, desire
- a burden
- specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage
- figuratively, an utterance, chiefly adoom, especially singing
- mental, desire
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: burden, carry away, prophecy, [idiom] they set, song, tribute.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- אAlef1
Picture: ox head
- Concrete
- ox · bull · cattle
- Extended
- strength · leader · first · the one in front
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to consume, to destroy › strength, the leader
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to consume, to destroy of strength, the leader.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מַשָּׂא 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
66 occurrences · 66 OT · 0 NT · 33 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the burden22 · 42%
- burden3 · 6%
- of their burden2 · 4%
- this burden2 · 4%
- and the burden2 · 4%
- a burden2 · 4%
- under his burden1 · 2%
- these things are the burden1 · 2%
- and to his burden1 · 2%
- and for burdens1 · 2%
- in all their burdens1 · 2%
- all their burdens1 · 2%
- of the burden1 · 2%
- and according to his burden1 · 2%
- and your burden1 · 2%
- with me, then thou shalt be a burden1 · 2%
- be yet a burden1 · 2%
- was for song1 · 2%
- about the song1 · 2%
- of the song1 · 2%
- and tribute1 · 2%
- they could carry away1 · 2%
- of the burdens1 · 2%
- it shall not be a burden1 · 2%
- and the exaction1 · 2%
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.