מַס (mas) means “taskworker” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: mas Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
מַס · mas · taskworker
1) gang or body of forced labourers, task-workers, labour band or gang, forced service, task-work, serfdom, tributary, tribute, levy, taskmasters, discomfited 1a) labour-band, labour-gang, slave gang 1b) gang-overseers 1c) forced service, serfdom, tribute, enforced payment
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or מִס; from H4549 (מָסַס); properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor
KJV glosses: discomfited, levy, task(-master), tribute(-tary).
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| of the forced labor | 4 |
| as forced laborers | 2 |
| into forced labor | 2 |
| the forced labor | 2 |
| to forced labor | 2 |
| a labor force | 1 |
| a slave | 1 |
| forced | 1 |
| forced labor | 1 |
| forced laborers | 1 |
| to be forced | 1 |
| to be forced laborers | 1 |
| to labor | 1 |
| tribute | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| over the tribute | 4 |
| a tribute | 2 |
| to tribute | 2 |
| a levy | 1 |
| and the levy | 1 |
| became tributaries | 1 |
| is she become tributary | 1 |
| of the levy | 1 |
| over the levy | 1 |
| over them taskmasters | 1 |
| shall be discomfited | 1 |
| shall be under tribute | 1 |
| so that they became tributaries | 1 |
| them and became tributaries | 1 |
| therein shall be tributaries | 1 |
| tribute | 1 |
| under tribute | 1 |
| unto tribute | 1 |
Page 1 of 1. 22 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.
Read word by wordSo the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
Read word by wordIf they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.
Read word by wordBut they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.
Read word by wordHowever, when the Israelites grew stronger, they put the Canaanites to forced labor; but they failed to drive them out completely.
Read word by wordWhen Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.
Read word by wordZebulun failed to drive out the inhabitants of Kitron and Nahalol; so the Canaanites lived among them and served as forced laborers.
Read word by wordNaphtali failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath. So the Naphtalites also lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, but the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath served them as forced laborers.
Read word by wordAnd the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. But when the house of Joseph grew in strength, they pressed the Amorites into forced labor.
Read word by wordAdoram was in charge of the forced labor; Jehoshaphat son of Ahilud was the recorder;
Read word by wordAhishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.
Read word by wordThen King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.27
He sent them to Lebanon in monthly shifts of 10,000 men, so that they would spend one month in Lebanon and two months at home. And Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 5.28
This is the account of the forced labor that King Solomon imposed to build the house of the LORD, his own palace, the supporting terraces, and the wall of Jerusalem, as well as Hazor, Megiddo, and Gezer.
Read word by wordtheir descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites were unable to devote to destruction—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
Read word by wordThen King Rehoboam sent out Adoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.
Read word by wordtheir descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites had not destroyed—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
Read word by wordThen King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.
Read word by wordNow King Xerxes imposed tribute throughout the land, even to its farthest shores.
Read word by wordThe hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.
Read word by word“Then Assyria will fall, but not by the sword of man; a sword will devour them, but not one made by mortals. They will flee before the sword, and their young men will be put to forced labor.
Read word by wordHow lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
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