Hebrew noun (masculine) · H4550
מַסַּע
massamas-sah'
journey
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: maççaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4550is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 4 of 39Old Testament books
- 9spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4550
a departure (from striking the tents), i.e. march (not necessarily a single day's travel); by implication, a station (or point of departure)
The King James renders it: journey(-ing).
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
massa is rendered "journey". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across four books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Numbers, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 13:3From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,
- The Greek text spells it nine different ways.
The first use
From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,
Genesis 13:3לְמַסָּעָ֔יו
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's twelve uses are in Numbers.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- journeyings their2
- settings out of2
- to journeyings their2
- and for breaking1
- for settings out their1
- settings out their1
- to journeying1
- to journeyings his1
- to settings out their1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַסַּד | massad | foundation | Uses1 |
The words it stands beside
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
9 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
- לְמַסְעֵיהֶ֖ם3
- מַסְעֵיהֶֽם׃2
- וּלְמַסַּ֖ע1
- לְמַסַּ֖ע1
- לְמַסְעֵיהֶֽם׃1
- לְמַסָּעָ֔יו1
- מַסְעֵ֥י1
- מַסְעֵ֣י1
- מַסְעֵיהֶ֖ם1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural4HR/Ncmpc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural3HNcmpc/Sp3mp
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmpc
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singular1HC/R/Ncmsa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HR/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
- preposition + noun · masculine singular1HR/Ncmsa
Genesis
one use
From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,
- לְמַסָּעָ֔יוlemasaavpreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to journeyings his
Exodus
three uses
Then the whole congregation of Israel left the Desert of Sin, moving from place to place as the LORD commanded. They camped at Rephidim, but there was no water for the people to drink.
- לְמַסְעֵיהֶ֖םlemaseihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to journeyings their
Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey.
- מַסְעֵיהֶֽם׃maseihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: journeyings their
For the cloud of the LORD was over the tabernacle by day, and fire was in the cloud by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel through all their journeys.
- מַסְעֵיהֶֽם׃maseihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: journeyings their
Numbers
seven uses
“Make two trumpets of hammered silver to be used for calling the congregation and for having the camps set out.
- וּלְמַסַּ֖עulemasa'conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: and for breaking
When you sound the short blasts a second time, the camps that lie on the south side are to set out. The blasts are to signal them to set out.
- לְמַסְעֵיהֶֽם׃lemaseihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: for settings out their
and the Israelites set out from the Wilderness of Sinai, traveling from place to place until the cloud settled in the Wilderness of Paran.
- לְמַסְעֵיהֶ֖םlemaseihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to journeyings their
This was the order of march for the Israelite divisions as they set out.
- מַסְעֵ֥יmaseinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: settings out of
These are the journeys of the Israelites when they came out of the land of Egypt by their divisions under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
- מַסְעֵ֣יmaseinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: settings out of
At the LORD’s command, Moses recorded the stages of their journey. These are the stages listed by their starting points:
- לְמַסְעֵיהֶ֖םlemaseihempreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to settings out their
- מַסְעֵיהֶ֖םmaseihemnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: settings out their
Deuteronomy
one use
Then the LORD said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”
- לְמַסַּ֖עlemasa'preposition + noun · masculine singulartagged: to journeying
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.