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title: מָסַר — deliver up · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָסַר (4560), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: deliver up. BDB 1906: vb. deliver up, offer. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָסַר

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«מָסַר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **deliver up** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 2 times · **Key:** 4560 · **BDB:** מָסַר

### Glosses

offer (1); they.were.selected (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

deliver up [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4560/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. deliver up, offer [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4560/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. si vera l. deliver up, offer (NH מָסַר; Aramaic ܡܣܰܪ deliver up, denounce, betray, מְסַר; HomZMG xlvi. 1892, 530 comp. Sab. מסר take away);— Inf. cstr. לִמְסָר־מַ֫עַל בי׳ Nu 31:16 offer (commit) a trespass against י׳, but read לִמְעֹל, cf. Thes Di (v. Nu 5:6 2 Ch 36:14). Impf. וַיִּמָּֽסְרוּ Nu 31:5 delivered over to, assigned to (of warriors), read perhaps וַיִּסָּֽפְרוּ (𝔊 ἐξηρίθμησαν) cf. Thes.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָסַר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4560/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Numbers 31:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.5/)

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וַיִּמָּֽסְרוּ֙ מֵאַלְפֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל אֶ֖לֶף לַמַּטֶּ֑ה שְׁנֵים־עָשָׂ֥ר אֶ֖לֶף חֲלוּצֵ֥י צָבָֽא׃

*Word for word:* and they.were.selected from the.families of.Israel one.thousand to the tribe two.plus ten thousand \[men\].equipped of.war

*JPS 1917:* So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

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[Numbers 31:16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.31.16/)

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הֵ֣ן הֵ֜נָּה הָי֨וּ לִבְנֵ֤י יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ בִּדְבַ֣ר בִּלְעָ֔ם לִמְסָר־מַ֥עַל בַּיהוָ֖ה עַל־דְּבַר־פְּע֑וֹר וַתְּהִ֥י הַמַּגֵּפָ֖ה בַּעֲדַ֥ת יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* there! they they.were to the.people of.Israel by the.word of.Balaam to offer unfaithfulness in Yahweh on the.matter of.Peor and it.was the plague among the.congregation of.Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to revolt so as to break faith with the LORD in the matter of Peor, and so the plague was among the congregation of the LORD.

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