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 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
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.
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַשְׁחִית | mashchith | destruction | Uses12 |
| מַשְׁמָן | mashman | fat | Uses7 |
| מַשְׂכִּית | maskith | figure | Uses6 |
| מַשְׂכֹּרֶת | maskoreth | wage | Uses4 |
| מַשְׂטֵמָה | mastemah | hatred | Uses2 |
| מַשְׁאָב | mashab | well | Uses1 |
| מַשְׁחֵת | mashcheth | destruction | Uses1 |
| מַשְׂכִּיל | maskil | Maskil | Uses1 |
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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?”
- 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.
- 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.
- מַשְׂאֵ֖תmasetnoun · feminine singulartagged: tribute
Psalms
one use
May my prayer be set before You like incense, my uplifted hands like the evening offering.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- מַשְׂאֵ֥תmasetnoun · feminine singulartagged: tribute
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.
