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title: מָס — despairing · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָס (4523), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: despairing. BDB 1906: adj. despairing. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָס

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«מָס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **despairing** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 4523 · **BDB:** מַס³

### Glosses

\[person\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

despairing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4523/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

adj. despairing [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4523/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** adj. despairing (lit. melting, i.e. failing, collapsing);—לַמָּס Jb 6:14 to him who despaireth belongeth kindness, etc.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4523/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Job 6:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.6.14/)

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לַמָּ֣ס מֵרֵעֵ֣הוּ חָ֑סֶד וְיִרְאַ֖ת שַׁדַּ֣י יַעֲזֽוֹב׃

*Word for word:* \[belongs\].to.(the) despairing \[person\] friend his.close loyalty and the.fear of.\[the\].Almighty he.will.forsake

*JPS 1917:* To him that is ready to faint kindness is due from his friend, even to him that forsaketh the fear of the Almighty.

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