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title: מַשָּׂא — Massa · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מַשָּׂא (4854), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: Massa. BDB 1906: n.pr.gent. et terr. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מַשָּׂא

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«מַשָּׂא» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Massa** — 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:** 4854 · **BDB:** מַשָּׂא

### Glosses

Massa (2)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Massa [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4854/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.gent. et terr. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4854/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.gent. et terr. ‘son’ of Ishmael Gn 25:14 = 1 Ch 1:30. 𝔊 Μασση, Μασσα, etc. realm of king Lemuel Pr 31:1 De Now Str Wild.—Perhaps = N. Arabic Masʾu Schr COT Gn 25, 14; KGF 102, 262 ff., 364 DlPar 302 f.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (7 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מַשָּׂא» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/4854/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 25:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.25.14/)

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וּמִשְׁמָ֥ע וְדוּמָ֖ה וּמַשָּֽׂא׃

*Word for word:* and Mishma and Dumah and Massa

*JPS 1917:* and Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa;

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[1 Chronicles 1:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.1.30/)

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מִשְׁמָ֣ע וְדוּמָ֔ה מַשָּׂ֖א חֲדַ֥ד וְתֵימָֽא׃

*Word for word:* Mishma and Dumah Massa Hadad and Tema

*JPS 1917:* Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,

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