Lexical Definition

‎מַסָּה‎ maççâh (mas-saw') despair ^H:N-F
from ‎נָסָה‎

temptation, trial.

• a testing, of men (judicial) or of God (querulous)

1) despair, test
1a) despair
1b) testing, proving, trial

See Greek: πεῖρα · πειρασμός

Extended Information

• despair

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [‎מַסָּה‎] noun feminine despair (literally melting, failing); — only ‎לְמַסַּת נְקִיִּים יִלְעָ֑ג‎ Job 9:23 at the despair of innocent ones he mocketh; so ᵑ7 Ew Di Bu Du > Ges Hi and others trial (by calamity), √ ‎נסה‎.

II. ‎מַסָּה‎ noun feminine test, trial, proving; — ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Ps 95:8 construct ‎מַסַּת‎ Job 9:23 plural ‎מַסֹּת‎ Deut 4:34; Deut 7:19, ‎מַסּוֺת‎ Deut 29:2* — testingsor provings of Pharaoh and Egyptians at Exodus, Deut 4:34 (see Dr), Deut 7:19; Deut 29:2* (|| ‎אֹתֹת‎); — test, trial, of innocent person Job 9:23 according to Hi and others, but see I. ‎מַסָּה‎ below ‎מסס‎.

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