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Strong's #4523 - מַס
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1) despairing
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1291) xm (מס MS) AC: Melt CO: ? AB: Affliction: The dissolving or melting away of something.
A) xm (מס MS) AC: Dissolve CO: ? AB: Affliction: A wasting or fainting away due to an outside force.
Nm) xm (מס MS) - I. Afflicted: II. Task work:A group of workers under forced labor. KJV (24): afflict, tribute, tributary, levy, discomfit, taskmaster - Strongs: H4522 (מִס), H4523 (מַס)
Nf1) exm (מסה MSH) - Tribute: An offering. KJV (1): tribute - Strongs: H4530 (מִסָּה)
im) xmt (תמס TMS) - Melt: KJV (1): melt - Strongs: H8557 (תֶּמֶס)
B) xxm (מסס MSS) AC: Melt CO: ? AB: ?
V) xxm (מסס MSS) - Melt: A melting of something from heat. Also the melting of the heart through fear or discouragement. KJV (21): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil, Participle) melt, faint, discouraged, loose, molten, refuse - Strongs: H4549 (מָסַס)
D) xam (מאס MAS) AC: Dissolve CO: ? AB: ?
V) xam (מאס MAS) - Dissolve: To make something dissolve away. Also to dissolve something through refusal. KJV (76): (vf: Paal, Niphal) despise, refuse, reject, abhor, - Strongs: H3988 (מָאַס)
cm) xfam (מאוס MAWS) - Dissolve: Something that is dissolved through refusal. KJV (1): refuse - Strongs: H3973 (מָאוֹס)
F) xme (המס HMS) AC: Melt CO: ? AB: ?
Nm ) xme (המס HMS) - Melt: KJV (1): melting - Strongs: H2003 (הֲמָסִים)
H) exm (מסה MSH) AC: Melt CO: ? AB: ?
V) exm (מסה MSH) - Melt: KJV (4): (vf: Hiphil) melt, consume, water - Strongs: H4529 (מָסָה)
Adopted Roots:
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
מַס m. tribute. (Commonly taken from מָסַס because tribute is “virium dissolutio et confectio,” a derivation which can hardly seem suitable to any one. I have no doubt that מַס is contr. from מֶכֶס tribute, toll, from the root כָּסַס to number, like the fem. מִסָּה measure, number, for מִכְסָה. Many examples of the softening of the letters ks, or ξ at the end of words by the rejection of k, are found in Gr. and Lat., as Ajax, Αἴας, pistrix, pistris, πίστρις; ὄρνις, Dor. ὄρνιξ, mixtus, mistus; sestersius for sextertius; also x and ss between two vowels like the Hebrew micsa, missa: Ulixes, Ulysses; μαλάσσω, malaxo; also maximus, and Ital. massimo: Alexander and Alessandro.) Almost always used of tribute rendered by labour, servile work, angaria; fully מָס עֹבֵד (servile tribute), 1 Kings 9:21; 2 Chronicles 8:8. Of frequent use are the phrases הָיָה לָמַס Deuteronomy 20:11; Judges 1:30, 33 Judges 1:33, 35 Judges 1:35; Isaiah 31:8 and הָיָה לְמַס עֹבֵד Genesis 49:15; Joshua 16:10 to be liable to impressment for servile work. Without עֹבֵד id., hence נָתַן לָמַס Joshua 17:13 שׂוּם לָמַס Judges 1:28 and שׂוּם מַס עַל Esther 10:1, to lay servile work upon any one; אֲשֶׁר עַל הַמַּס superintendent of works, or of impressment, 2 Samuel 20:24; 1 Kings 4:6, 12:18 plur. שָׂרֵי מִסִּים superintendents of works, task-masters, Exodus 1:11.
