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Hebrew verb · H4549

מָסַס

masasmaw-sas'

to melt

21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: mâçaç

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4549is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 11 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 20
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4549

to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)

The King James renders it: discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, [idiom] utterly.

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

masas is rendered "to melt". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.

  • Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 16:21Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.
  • The Greek text spells it twenty different ways.

The first use

Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

Exodus 16:21וְנָמָֽס׃

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in eleven of the 39 Old Testament books.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and it melted4
  • it will melt2
  • and he will melt away1
  • and it will melt1
  • and they dropped off1
  • and they will melt1
  • and they will melt away1
  • and worthless1
  • as melts1
  • as wastes away1
  • he will melt1
  • it has melted1

and 5 more, 21 uses in all

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.

מָסַךְmasakto mixUses5
מָסַרmasarto commitUses2

All 21, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

20 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

  • וַיִּמַּ֣ס2
  • הִמֵּ֣ס1
  • הֵמַ֨סּוּ1
  • וַיִּמַּ֥ס1
  • וַיִּמַּ֥סּוּ1
  • וְנָמֵ֖ס1
  • וְנָמֵ֣ס1
  • וְנָמָ֑ס1
  • וְנָמָֽס׃1
  • וְנָמַ֥סּוּ1
  • וְנָמַ֤סּוּ1
  • יִמַּ֛ס1

and 8 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular4HVNi3ms
  • Hc/VNq3ms3Hc/VNq3ms
  • Hc/VNw3ms3Hc/VNw3ms
  • Hc/VNq3cp2Hc/VNq3cp
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular2HVNp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular1HC/VNrmsa
  • Hc/VNw3mp1Hc/VNw3mp
  • preposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/VNcc
  • preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)1HR/Vqcc
  • verb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVhp3cp
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)1HVNcc
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVNp3cp

Exodus

one use
  • Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.

    Exodus 16:21

    • וְנָמָֽס׃venamasHc/VNq3mstagged: and it melted

Deuteronomy

two uses
  • Where can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”

    Deuteronomy 1:28

    • הֵמַ֨סּוּhemasuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have made melt
  • Then the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”

    Deuteronomy 20:8

    • יִמַּ֛סyimasverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be melted

Joshua

three uses
  • When we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.

    Joshua 2:11

    • וַיִּמַּ֣סvaiyimasHc/VNw3mstagged: and it melted
  • Now when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.

    Joshua 5:1

    • וַיִּמַּ֣סvaiyimasHc/VNw3mstagged: and it melted
  • And the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.

    Joshua 7:5

    • וַיִּמַּ֥סvaiyimasHc/VNw3mstagged: and it melted

Judges

one use
  • When Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.

    Judges 15:14

    • וַיִּמַּ֥סּוּvaiyimmasuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they dropped off

1 Samuel

one use
  • Saul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to destroy them, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.

    1 Samuel 15:9

    • וְנָמֵ֖סvenamesconjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and worthless

2 Samuel

two uses
  • Then even the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will melt with fear, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man who has valiant men with him.

    2 Samuel 17:10

    • הִמֵּ֣סhimesverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: surely melt
    • יִמָּ֑סyimasverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will melt

Psalms

four uses
  • I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

    Psalms 22:14

    • נָ֝מֵ֗סnamesverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has melted
  • As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.

    Psalms 68:2

    • כְּהִמֵּ֣סkehimespreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: as melts
  • The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.

    Psalms 97:5

    • נָ֭מַסּוּnamasuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they melt
  • The wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.

    Psalms 112:10

    • וְנָמָ֑סvenamasHc/VNq3mstagged: and he will melt away

Isaiah

four uses
  • The splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.

    Isaiah 10:18

    • כִּמְסֹ֥סkimsospreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: as wastes away
  • Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.

    Isaiah 13:7

    • יִמָּס׃yimasverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will melt
  • This is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.

    Isaiah 19:1

    • יִמַּ֥סyimasverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will melt
  • Their slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.

    Isaiah 34:3

    • וְנָמַ֥סּוּvenamasuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will melt away

Ezekiel

one use
  • And when they ask, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you are to say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt, and every hand will go limp. Every spirit will faint, and every knee will turn to water.’ Yes, it is coming and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD.”

    Ezekiel 21:7

    • וְנָמֵ֣סvenamesHc/VNq3mstagged: and it will melt

Micah

one use
  • The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.

    Micah 1:4

    • וְנָמַ֤סּוּvenamasuHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will melt

Nahum

one use
  • She is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!

    Nahum 2:10

    • נָמֵ֜סnamesverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: melting

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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