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title: מִסָּה — despair · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מִסָּה (4530), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: despair. BDB 1906: sufficiency. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מִסָּה

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«מִסָּה» in the Tanakh dictionary: **despair** — 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:** 4530 · **BDB:** מִסַּת

### Glosses

a.sufficiency (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

despair [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4530/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

sufficiency [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4530/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n. sufficiency (der. obscure: Aramaic מִיסַּת, ܡܶܣܰܬ, common in 𝔗 𝔖, both absol. and cstr., in sense of sufficiency, enough; e.g. for Heb. רַב 2 S 24:16 𝔗, דַּי Ex 36:7 𝔗 𝔖, Ob 5 𝔗 𝔖, for לְפִי Ex 12:4 𝔖; ܡܶܣܰܬ ܚܰܘܒܬܳܐ the amount of the debt, PS2183);—Dt 16:10 and thou shalt keep the pilgrimage of weeks מִסַּת נִדְבַת יָֽדְךָ according to (adv. acc.) the sufficiency of the free-will offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, i.e. with the full amount that thou canst afford (cf. דֵּי שֶׂה Lv 5:7; 12:8; 𝔗 כְּמִיסַּת אִימְּרָא).

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Why these entries: BDB: another headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מִסָּה» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4530/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Deuteronomy 16:10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.16.10/)

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וְעָשִׂ֜יתָ חַ֤ג שָׁבֻעוֹת֙ לַיהוָ֣ה אֱלֹהֶ֔יךָ מִסַּ֛ת נִדְבַ֥ת יָדְךָ֖ אֲשֶׁ֣ר תִּתֵּ֑ן כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר יְבָרֶכְךָ֖ יְהוָ֥ה אֱלֹהֶֽיךָ׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.observe a.festival of.weeks to Yahweh God your a.sufficiency of.a.freewill.offering your.hand your which you.will.give just as he will.bless.you Yahweh God your

*JPS 1917:* And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the LORD thy God after the measure of the freewill-offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, according as the LORD thy God blesseth thee.

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