מַסַּע massa

Hebrew word for “journey” · Strong’s H4550 · used 12 times in 11 verses

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Meaning

1) a pulling up (of stakes), breaking camp, setting out, journey;

How it is translated

Glosses given for massa in context, with how often each is used:

• journeyings 5
• settings out 5
• breaking 1
• journeying 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Numbers 10 (4), Exodus 40 (2), Numbers 33 (2), Genesis 13 (1), Exodus 17 (1), Deuteronomy 10 (1)

Forms

• למסעיהם 4
• מסעיהם 3
• מסעי 2
• למסעיו 1
• ולמסע 1
• למסע 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with massa more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נָסַע nasa “to set out” 5
• עָנָן anan “cloud” 3
• אֵלֶּה elleh “these” 3
• מִשְׁכָּן mishkan “tabernacle” 2
• חָנָה chanah “to camp” 2
• עֵדָה edah “congregation” 2
• מַחֲנֶה machaneh “camp” 2
• מִדְבָּר midbar “wilderness” 2
• פֶּה peh “lip” 2
• צָבָא tsava “Hosts” 2
• מֹשֶׁה mosheh “Moses” 2
• הָלַךְ halakh “to go” 2

Key verses

The verses using massa that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 13:3 — And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth-el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth-el and Hai;
• Exodus 17:1 — And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and…
• Exodus 40:36 — And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
• Exodus 40:38 — For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
• Numbers 10:2 — Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of…
• Numbers 10:6 — When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
• Numbers 10:12 — And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
• Numbers 10:28 — Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.
• Numbers 33:1 — These are the journeys of the children of Israel, which went forth out of the land of Egypt with their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.
• Numbers 33:2 — And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
• Deuteronomy 10:11 — And the LORD said unto me, Arise, take thy journey before the people, that they may go in and possess the land, which I sware unto their fathers to give unto…

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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.