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title: מָאַס — flow · The Tanakh dictionary
description: מָאַס (lemma:מָאַס), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 2 times: flow. BDB 1906: vb. flow, run. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# מָאַס

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«מָאַס» in the Tanakh dictionary: **flow** — 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:** lemma:מָאַס · **BDB:** מָאַס²

### Glosses

it.has.oozed (1); may.they.flow (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

flow [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d0_5b7_5e1/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. flow, run [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d0_5b7_5e1/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. flow, run (Aramaic id., but rare and dub.;—secondary form of מסס q.v.);—Impf. 3 ms. וַיִּמָּאֵס Jb 7:5 my skin hath hardened and run (i.e. again, afresh; \> GHoffm Du read וַיִּמַּס, Bu וַיִּמָּאס, √ מסס); 3 mpl. יִמָּֽאֲסוּ כְּמוֹ מַיִם ψ 58:8 (fig. of annihilation of wicked).

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «מָאַס» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1502/lemma_3a_5de_5b8_5d0_5b7_5e1/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Psalms 58:8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.8/)

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יִמָּאֲס֣וּ כְמוֹ־מַ֭יִם יִתְהַלְּכוּ־לָ֑מוֹ יִדְרֹ֥ךְ חִ֝צָּ֗יו כְּמ֣וֹ יִתְמֹלָֽלוּ׃

*Word for word:* may.they.flow like waters \[which\].they.go.about (for themselves may.he.bend arrows his like let.them.be.cut.off

*JPS 1917:* Let them melt away as water that runneth apace; when he aimeth his arrows, let them be as though they were cut off.

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[Job 7:5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.7.5/)

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לָ֘בַ֤שׁ בְּשָׂרִ֣י רִ֭מָּה וְג֣וּשׁ עָפָ֑ר עוֹרִ֥י רָ֝גַ֗ע וַיִּמָּאֵֽס׃

*Word for word:* it.is.clothed flesh my maggot\[s\] and clod\[s\] of.dust skin my it.has.become.hard and it.has.oozed

*JPS 1917:* My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin closeth up and breaketh out afresh.

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