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Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4864

מַשְׂאֵת

masethmas-ayth'

tribute

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

Concordance spelling: masʼêth

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4864is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 10 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 14
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H4864

properly, (abstractly) a raising (as of the hands in prayer), or rising (of flame); figuratively, an utterance; concretely, a beacon (as raised); a present (as taken), mess, or tribute; figuratively, a reproach (as a burden)

The King James renders it: burden, collection, sign of fire, (great) flame, gift, lifting up, mess, oblation, reward.

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

maseth is rendered "tribute". It stands 15 times in the Hebrew text, across ten books.

  • Three of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 43:34When the portions were served to them from Joseph’s table, Benjamin’s portion was five times larger than any of the others. So they feasted and drank freely with Joseph.
  • The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.

The first use

When the portions were served to them from Joseph’s table, Benjamin’s portion was five times larger than any of the others. So they feasted and drank freely with Joseph.

Genesis 43:34מַשְׂאֹ֜ת

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

Where the word stands

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

The other 29 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

  • tax of2
  • tribute2
  • a signal1
  • and a portion of1
  • and a present1
  • and the rising1
  • gift of1
  • gifts your1
  • more than portions of1
  • portion of1
  • portions1
  • raising of1

and 1 more, 15 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.

מַשְׁחִיתmashchithdestructionUses12
מַשְׁמָןmashmanfatUses7
מַשְׂכִּיתmaskithfigureUses6
מַשְׂכֹּרֶתmaskorethwageUses4
מַשְׂטֵמָהmastemahhatredUses2
מַשְׁאָבmashabwellUses1
מַשְׁחֵתmashchethdestructionUses1
מַשְׂכִּילmaskilMaskilUses1

The words it stands beside

All 15, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

14 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

  • מַשְׂאַ֥ת2
  • וְהַמַּשְׂאֵ֗ת1
  • וּמַשְׂאֵ֖ת1
  • וּמַשְׂאַת־1
  • מִמַּשְׂאֹ֥ת1
  • מַשְׂאוֹתֵיכֶ֖ם1
  • מַשְׂאֵ֑ת1
  • מַשְׂאֵ֥ת1
  • מַשְׂאֵ֖ת1
  • מַשְׂאַ֧ת1
  • מַֽשְׂאַ֥ת1
  • מַשְׂאַת֙1

and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)6HNcfsc
  • noun · feminine singular3HNcfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Ncfsa
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncfsc
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular1HC/Td/Ncfsa
  • noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
  • noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HNcfpc/Sp2mp
  • preposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncfpc

Genesis

three uses
  • When the portions were served to them from Joseph’s table, Benjamin’s portion was five times larger than any of the others. So they feasted and drank freely with Joseph.

    Genesis 43:34

    • מַשְׂאֹ֜תmasotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: portions
    • מַשְׂאַ֧תmasatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: portion of
    • מִמַּשְׂאֹ֥תmimasotpreposition + noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: more than portions of

Judges

two uses
  • The men of Israel had arranged a signal with the men in ambush: When they sent up a great cloud of smoke from the city,

    Judges 20:38

    • מַשְׂאַ֥תmasatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rising of
  • But when the column of smoke began to go up from the city, the Benjamites looked behind them and saw the whole city going up in smoke.

    Judges 20:40

    • וְהַמַּשְׂאֵ֗תvehamasetconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and the rising

2 Samuel

one use
  • Then he said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” So Uriah left the palace, and a gift from the king followed him.

    2 Samuel 11:8

    • מַשְׂאַ֥תmasatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: gift of

2 Chronicles

two uses
  • So the king called Jehoiada the high priest and said, “Why have you not required the Levites to bring from Judah and Jerusalem the tax imposed by Moses the servant of the LORD and by the assembly of Israel for the Tent of the Testimony?”

    2 Chronicles 24:6

    • מַשְׂאַת֙masatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tax of
  • And a proclamation was issued in Judah and Jerusalem that they were to bring to the LORD the tax imposed by Moses the servant of God on Israel in the wilderness.

    2 Chronicles 24:9

    • מַשְׂאַ֞תmasatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: tax of

Esther

one use
  • Then the king held a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his officials and servants. He proclaimed a tax holiday in the provinces and gave gifts worthy of the king’s bounty.

    Esther 2:18

    • מַשְׂאֵ֖תmasetnoun · feminine singulartagged: tribute

Psalms

one use
  • May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.

    Psalms 141:2

    • מַֽשְׂאַ֥תmasatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: raising of

Jeremiah

two uses
  • “Run for cover, O sons of Benjamin; flee from Jerusalem! Sound the ram’s horn in Tekoa; send up a signal over Beth-haccherem, for disaster looms from the north, even great destruction.

    Jeremiah 6:1

    • מַשְׂאֵ֑תmasetnoun · feminine singulartagged: a signal
  • But before Jeremiah turned to go, Nebuzaradan added, “Return to Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and stay with him among the people, or go anywhere else that seems right.” Then the captain of the guard gave him a ration and a gift and released him.

    Jeremiah 40:5

    • וּמַשְׂאֵ֖תumasetconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a present

Ezekiel

one use
  • For on My holy mountain, the high mountain of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, there the whole house of Israel, all of them, will serve Me in the land. There I will accept them and will require your offerings and choice gifts, along with all your holy sacrifices.

    Ezekiel 20:40

    • מַשְׂאוֹתֵיכֶ֖םmasoteikhemnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: gifts your

Amos

one use
  • Therefore, because you trample on the poor and exact from him a tax of grain, you will never live in the stone houses you have built; you will never drink the wine from the lush vineyards you have planted.

    Amos 5:11

    • וּמַשְׂאַת־umasat-conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a portion of

Zephaniah

one use
  • “I will gather those among you who grieve over the appointed feasts, so that you will no longer suffer reproach.

    Zephaniah 3:18

    • מַשְׂאֵ֥תmasetnoun · feminine singulartagged: tribute

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 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.

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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