מָסַס masas
Hebrew word for “to melt” · Strong’s H4549 · used 21 times in 20 verses
Meaning
1) to dissolve, melt;
How it is translated
Glosses given for masas in context, with how often each is used:
- will melt 5
- melted 4
- will melt away 2
- have made melt 1
- will be melted 1
- dropped off 1
- worthless 1
- surely 1
- has melted 1
- melts 1
- melt 1
- wastes away 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psalms | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Isaiah | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Joshua | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Deuteronomy | 2 | 0.1 | |
| 2 Samuel | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Exodus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Judges | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Micah | 1 | 0.7 | |
| Nahum | 1 | 1.8 |
Chapters where it is used most
Exodus 16 (1), Deuteronomy 1 (1), Deuteronomy 20 (1), Joshua 2 (1), Joshua 5 (1), Joshua 7 (1), Judges 15 (1), 1 Samuel 15 (1), 2 Samuel 17 (1), Psalms 22 (1)
Forms
- ונמס 4
- ימס 4
- וימס 3
- נמס 2
- ונמסו 2
- המסו 1
- וימסו 1
- המס 1
- כהמס 1
- נמסו 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with masas more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- דּוֹנַג donag “wax” 4
- לֵבָב levav “heart” 7
- מַי mayim “water” 5
- מוֹרָד morad “descent” 2
- רוּחַ ruach “spirit” 4
- לֵב lev “heart” 4
- בֶּרֶךְ berekh “knee” 2
- אֵשׁ esh “fire” 3
- רָפָה raphah “to slacken” 2
- עַד ad “till” 4
- הַר har “mountain” 3
- אָבַד avad “to perish” 2
Key verses
The verses using masas that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Deuteronomy 1:28 — Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to…
- Joshua 2:11 — And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for the LORD your God, he…
- Joshua 5:1 — And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, which were by the sea,…
- Judges 15:14 — And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were upon his arms…
- Psalms 22:14 — I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
- Psalms 68:2 — As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
- Psalms 112:10 — The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
- Isaiah 13:7 — Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
- Isaiah 19:1 — The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his presence, and the…
- Ezekiel 21:7 — And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and…
- Micah 1:4 — And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.
- Nahum 2:10 — She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of them all gather…
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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.