Lexical Definition

‎מַשָּׂא‎ massâʼ (mas-saw') burden ^H:N-M
from ‎נָשָׂא‎

burden, carry away, prophecy, [idiom] they set, song, tribute.

• § Massa = "burden"
• a burden
• specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage
• figuratively, an utterance, chiefly adoom, especially singing
• mental, desire

n m
1) load, bearing, tribute, burden, lifting
1a) load, burden
1b) lifting, uplifting, that to which the soul lifts itself up
1c) bearing, carrying
1d) tribute, that which is carried or brought or borne
2) utterance, oracle, burden
n pr m
3) (BDB) a son of Ishmael

See Greek: αἴρω · ἀπαίρω · ἀργός · γόμος · δόμα · δόξα · ἐξαίρω · ἔργον · ἔρχομαι · ὅραμα · ὅρασις · ὁρμή · παρεμβολή · ῥῆμα · στρατεία · στρατιά · ὑπόστασις · φορτίον · χρηματισμός · ᾠδή

Extended Information

• utterance, oracle, burden

Brown-Driver-Briggs

Also see: מַשָּׂא

II. ‎מַשָּׂא‎ noun masculine^{Ps 38:5*} load, burden, lifting, bearing, tribute; — ‎׳‎‎מ‎ absolute Neh 13:19 +; construct 2Kgs 5:17 +; suffix ‎מַשָּׂאוֺ‎ Exod 23:5 + 2 t.; ‎מַשַּׂאֲכֶם‎ Deut 1:12 ‎מַשָּׂאָם‎ Num 4:27 + 2 t.; —

1. load, burden of ass Exod 23:5 (E), mules 2Kgs 5:17, camels 2Kgs 8:9, compare Isa 46:1; Isa 46:2 hanging on a peg Isa 22:25 (figurative); forbidden on Sabbath Jer 17:21; Jer 17:22; Jer 17:24; Jer 17:27; Neh 13:15; Neh 13:19 figurative of people as burden Num 11:11; Num 11:17 (JE), Deut 1:12, compare ‎עַלֿ‎ ‎׳‎‎הָיָה לְמ‎ 2Sam 15:33; 2Sam 19:36* (‎אֶלֿ‎), also ‎וָאֶהְיֶה עָלַי לְמַשָּׂא‎ Job 7:20 of iniquities Ps 38:5*. — Hos 8:10 read ‎מְשֹׁחַ‎, so ᵐ5 We Now GASm.

2. verbal noun, lifting, uplifting, only ‎נַפְשָׁם‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Ezek 24:25 the uplifting of their soul, i.e. that to which they lift up their soul, their heart's desire.

3. verbal noun, bearing, carrying, Num 4:24 (+ ‎לַעֲבֹד‎), 2Chr 20:25; 2Chr 35:3 (‎בַּכָּתֵף‎), so probably 1Chr 15:22 (twice in verse); 1Chr 15:27 (compare Be Kau; > singing, uplifting of voice, e.g. Öttli); especially of responsibility and duty of bearing sacred vessels (often || ‎עֲבֹדָה‎, ‎פְּקֻדָּה‎) Num 4:15; Num 4:19; Num 4:27 (twice in verse); Num 4:49, ‎׳‎‎עֲבֹדַת מ‎ vNum 4:47, ‎׳‎‎מִשְׁמֶרֶת מ‎ vNum 4:31 vNum 4:32.

4. perhaps what is carried, brought, i.e. tribute ‎׳‎‎כֶּסֶף מ‎ 2Chr 17:11 silver as tribute (+ ‎מִנְחָה‎; compare ‎נשׂא‎ Qal; others, silver by the load i.e. in great quantity). — I. ‎מַשָּׂא‎ see above.

III. ‎מַשָּׂא‎ noun masculine^{Isa 14:28} utterance, oracle (compare ‎נשׂא‎ 1 b (6); Gf^{Jer 23:33}); — ‎׳‎‎מ‎ absolute Isa 14:28 +; usually construct Isa 13:1 +; — of prophetic utterance: 2Kgs 9:25; Isa 14:28; Ezek 12:10; 2Chr 24:27 (with ‎עַל‎); ‎בָבֶל‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Isa 13:1, ‎מוֺאָב‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Isa 15:1, compare Isa 17:1; Isa 19:1; Isa 21:1; Isa 21:11; Isa 22:1; Isa 23:1; Isa 30:6; Nah 1:1 ‎בערב‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Isa 21:13 is later insert (Di); ‎׳‎‎מ‎ = revelation, ‎אֲשֶׁר חָזָה חֲבַקּוּק הַנָּבִיא‎ ‎׳‎‎הַמּ‎ Hab 1:1 ‎׳‎‎י‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ utterance of ‎׳‎‎י‎ Jer 23:33; Jer 23:34; Jer 23:36; Jer 23:38 (3 t. in verse) (compare 2Kgs 9:25), see also v2Kgs 9:33 b (read ‎אַתֶּם הַמַּשָּׂא‎), with word-play, — followed by ‎וְנָטַשְׁתִּי‎ v2Kgs 9:36 b; ‎׳‎‎דְבַר י‎ ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Zech 9:1 (+ ‎בארץ‎), Zech 12:1 (+ ‎עַליִֿשְׂרָאֵל‎), Mal 1:1 (+ ‎׳‎‎אֶליִֿשׂ‎). — Prov 31:1 see I. ‎מַשָּׂא‎, p. 601 above; in Prov 30:1 read ‎מִמַּשָּׂא‎ from Massa (Mühlau, De), or ‎הַמַּשָּׂאִי‎ (Wild), which however is perhaps not original, but borrowed from Prov 31:1 (compare Wild^{on the passage} Frankenb^{Spr. p. 5}; corrupt name of Agur's home or tribe, Kau).

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