Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4531
מַסָּה
massahmas-saw'
despair; trial
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maççâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4531is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
- 2meanings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4531
a testing, of men (judicial) or of God (querulous)
The King James renders it: temptation, trial.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
massah is rendered "despair; trial". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Three of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "despair".
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 4:34Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
Deuteronomy 4:34בְּמַסֹּת֩
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's four uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
The word carries two meanings: despair, and trial.
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
| Meaning | Tagged as | Where |
|---|---|---|
| despairStrong's entry A | Tagged aslisted under the table | WhereDeuteronomy 4:34Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs… |
| trialStrong's entry B | Tagged aslisted under the table | Wherein the ledger below |
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the trials2
- by trials1
- to despair of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- בְּמַסֹּת֩1
- הַמַּסּוֹת֙1
- הַמַּסֹּ֨ת1
- לְמַסַּ֖ת1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural2HTd/Ncfpa
- preposition + noun · feminine plural1HR/Ncfpa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfsc
Deuteronomy
three uses
Or has any god tried to take as his own a nation out of another nation—by trials, signs, wonders, and war, by a strong hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors—as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt, before your eyes?
- בְּמַסֹּת֩bemasotpreposition + noun · feminine pluraltagged: by trials
the great trials that you saw, the signs and wonders, and the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples you now fear.
- הַמַּסֹּ֨תhamasotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the trials
You saw with your own eyes the great trials, and those miraculous signs and wonders.
- הַמַּסּוֹת֙hamasotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the trials
Job
one use
When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.
- לְמַסַּ֖תlemasatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to despair of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.