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Lexicon :: Strong's H4549 - māsas

Aa
מָסַס
Transliteration
māsas
Pronunciation
maw-sas'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 1223

Strong’s Definitions

מָסַס mâçaç, maw-sas'; a primitive root; to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief):—discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, × utterly.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 21x

The KJV translates Strong's H4549 in the following manner: melt (13x), faint (2x), melt away (1x), discouraged (1x), loosed (1x), molten (1x), refuse (1x), utterly (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 21x
The KJV translates Strong's H4549 in the following manner: melt (13x), faint (2x), melt away (1x), discouraged (1x), loosed (1x), molten (1x), refuse (1x), utterly (1x).

  1. to dissolve, melt

    1. (Qal) to waste away

    2. (Niphal)

      1. to melt, vanish, drop off, melt away

      2. to faint, grow fearful (fig.)

      3. wasted, worthless (participle)

    3. (Hiphil) to cause to melt

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
מָסַס mâçaç, maw-sas'; a primitive root; to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief):—discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, × utterly.
STRONGS H4549: Abbreviations
† [מָסַס] verb dissolve, melt, intransitive (Targum מְסַס; compare מסה, and II. מאס); —
Qal. Infinitive construct מְסֹס נֹסֵס Isaiah 10:18; like the melting (wasting away) of a נֹסֵס (which see).
Niph. Perfect וְנָמֵס consecutive Ezekiel 21:12; וְנָמָ֑ס Exodus 16:21; Psalm 112:10; נָמַ֫סּוּ Psalm 97:5 2 times; Imperfect יִמַּס Deuteronomy 20:8 +; וַיִּמַּסּוּ Judges 15:14; Infinitive absolute הִמֵּס 2 Samuel 17:10; construct id. Psalm 68:3; Participle נָמֵס Psalm 22:15 + 2 times; —
1. melt (intransitive) of manna Exodus 16:21; wax Psalm 68:3 (simile of wicked); manacles Judges 15:14 (= vanished, dropped off); wicked Psalm 112:10 (melt away); especially of hills and mountains Micah 1:4; Psalm 97:5; Isaiah 34:3.
2. most often figurative of heart = faint, grow fearful, Nahum 2:11; 2 Samuel 17:10 (twice in verse) (compare Dr), Deuteronomy 20:8; Joshua 2:11; Joshua 5:1; Joshua 7:5; Isaiah 13:7; Isaiah 19:1; Ezekiel 21:12; Psalm 22:15.
3. Participle = wasted, consumptive (?), 1 Samuel 15:9 (|| נְמִבְזָה, read נִבְזָה see בזה Niph.) < read נִמְאֶסֶת worthless, literally rejected (see מאס Niph.)
Hiph. Perfect 3rd person plural הֵמַסּוּ אֶתלְֿבָבֵנוּ Deuteronomy 1:28 cause to melt (= intimidate).
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Exodus

16:21; 16:21

Deuteronomy

1:28; 20:8; 20:8

Joshua

2:11; 5:1; 7:5

Judges

15:14; 15:14

1 Samuel

15:9

2 Samuel

17:10; 17:10

Psalms

22:15; 22:15; 68:3; 68:3; 97:5; 97:5; 112:10; 112:10

Isaiah

10:18; 13:7; 19:1; 34:3

Ezekiel

21:12; 21:12

Micah

1:4

Nahum

2:11

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Strong's Number H4549 matches the Hebrew מָסַס (māsas),
which occurs 21 times in 20 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 16:21 - And they took it up morning by morning, every man as he had need: and when the sun was high it was gone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 1:28 - Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our hearts feeble with fear by saying, The people are greater and taller than we are, and the towns are great and walled up to heaven; and more than this, we have seen the sons of the Anakim there.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:8

Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 20:8 - And let the overseers go on to say to the people, If there is any man whose heart is feeble with fear, let him go back to his house before he makes the hearts of his countrymen feeble.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 2:11 - And because of this news, our hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in any of us because of you; for the Lord your God is God in heaven on high and here on earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 5:1 - Now when the news came to all the kings of the Amorites on the west side of Jordan, and all the kings of the Canaanites living by the sea, how the Lord had made the waters of Jordan dry before the children of Israel, till they had gone across, their hearts became like water, and there was no more spirit in them, because of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:5 - The men of Ai put to death about thirty-six of them, driving them from before the town as far as the stoneworks, and overcoming them on the way down: and the hearts of the people became like water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:14 - And when he came to Lehi, the Philistines came out, meeting him with loud cries; then the spirit of the Lord came rushing on him, and the cords on his arms became like grass which has been burned with fire, and the bands came falling off his hands.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 15:9 - But Saul and the people did not put Agag to death, and they kept the best of the sheep and the oxen and the fat beasts and the lambs, and whatever was good, not desiring to put them to the curse: but everything which was bad and of no use they put to the curse.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:10

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 17:10 - Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:14

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 22:14 - I am flowing away like water, and all my bones are out of place: my heart is like wax, it has become soft in my body.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:2

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 68:2 - Let them be like smoke before the driving wind; as wax turning soft before the fire, so let them come to an end before the power of God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:5

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 97:5 - The mountains became like wax at the coming of the Lord, at the coming of the Lord of all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:10

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 112:10 - The sinner will see it with grief; he will be wasted away with envy; the desire of the evil-doers will come to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 10:18 - And he will put an end to the glory of his woods and of his planted fields, soul and body together; and it will be as when a man is wasted by disease.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:7

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:7 - For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:1

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 19:1 - The word about Egypt. See, the Lord is seated on a quick-moving cloud, and is coming to Egypt: and the false gods of Egypt will be troubled at his coming, and the heart of Egypt will be turned to water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:3

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 34:3 - Their dead bodies will be thick on the face of the earth, and their smell will come up, and the mountains will be flowing with their blood, and all the hills will come to nothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:7

Unchecked Copy BoxEze 21:7 - And when they say to you, Why are you making sounds of grief? then say, Because of the news, for it is coming: and every heart will become soft, and all hands will be feeble, and every spirit will be burning low, and all knees will be turned to water: see, it is coming and it will be done, says the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxMic 1:4 - And the mountains will be turned to water under him, and the deep valleys will be broken open, like wax before the fire, like waters flowing down a slope.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNah 2:10 - Everything has been taken from her, all is gone, she has nothing more: the heart is turned to water, the knees are shaking, all are twisted in pain, and colour has gone from all faces.
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