Hebrew proper noun (a place) · H4532
מַסָּה
Massahmas-saw'
Massah
5 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 H4532is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 5spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4532
Massah, a place in the Desert
The King James renders it: Massah.
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 "Massah". It stands 5 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Three of the uses stand in Deuteronomy, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 17:7He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
- The Greek text spells it five different ways.
The first use
He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
Exodus 17:7מַסָּ֖ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Three of the word's five uses are in Deuteronomy.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Massah2
- and at Massah1
- at Massah1
- at the Massah1
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 5, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
5 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
- בְּמַסָּ֔ה1
- בַּמַּסָּֽה׃1
- וּבְמַסָּ֔ה1
- מַ֝סָּ֗ה1
- מַסָּ֖ה1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)2HNpl
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)1HC/R/Npl
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npl
- preposition with the article + proper noun (a name)1HRd/Npl
Exodus
one use
He named the place Massah and Meribah because the Israelites quarreled, and because they tested the LORD, saying, “Is the LORD among us or not?”
- מַסָּ֖הmasahproper noun (a name)tagged: Massah
Deuteronomy
three uses
Do not test the LORD your God as you tested Him at Massah.
- בַּמַּסָּֽה׃bamasahpreposition with the article + proper noun (a name)tagged: at the Massah
You continued to provoke the LORD at Taberah, at Massah, and at Kibroth-hattaavah.
- וּבְמַסָּ֔הuvemasahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and at Massah
Concerning Levi he said: “Give Your Thummim to Levi and Your Urim to Your godly one, whom You tested at Massah and contested at the waters of Meribah.
- בְּמַסָּ֔הbemasahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: at Massah
Psalms
one use
do not harden your hearts as you did at Meribah, in the day at Massah in the wilderness,
- מַ֝סָּ֗הmasahproper noun (a name)tagged: Massah
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.