מָסַס (ma.sas) means “to melt” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: maw-sas' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
מָסַס · ma.sas · to melt
1) to dissolve, melt 1a) (Qal) to waste away 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to melt, vanish, drop off, melt away 1b2) to faint, grow fearful (fig.) 1b3) wasted, worthless (participle) 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to melt
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a primitive root; to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
KJV glosses: discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, [idiom] utterly.
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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 |
|---|---|
| will melt | 4 |
| melt | 3 |
| melted | 3 |
| and waste away | 1 |
| and worthless | 1 |
| as a sickness consumes a man | 1 |
| broke loose | 1 |
| have made our hearts melt | 1 |
| it melted away | 1 |
| it melts away | 1 |
| melts | 1 |
| will flow | 1 |
| will melt with fear | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| melted | 3 |
| shall melt | 3 |
| melteth | 2 |
| and melt away | 1 |
| and refuse | 1 |
| did melt | 1 |
| faint | 1 |
| fainteth | 1 |
| have discouraged | 1 |
| it is melted | 1 |
| it melted | 1 |
| loosed | 1 |
| melt | 1 |
| shall be melted | 1 |
| shall be molten | 1 |
| shall utterly | 1 |
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Every morning each one gathered as much as was needed, and when the sun grew hot, it melted away.
Read word by wordWhere can we go? Our brothers have made our hearts melt, saying: ‘The people are larger and taller than we are; the cities are large, with walls up to the heavens. We even saw the descendants of the Anakim there.’”
Read word by wordThen the officers shall speak further to the army, saying, “Is any man afraid or fainthearted? Let him return home, so that the hearts of his brothers will not melt like his own.”
Read word by wordWhen we heard this, our hearts melted and everyone’s courage failed because of you, for the LORD your God is God in the heavens above and on the earth below.
Read word by wordNow when all the Amorite kings west of the Jordan and all the Canaanite kings along the coast heard how the LORD had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the Israelites until they had crossed over, their hearts melted and their spirits failed for fear of the Israelites.
Read word by wordAnd the men of Ai struck down about thirty-six of them, chasing them from the gate as far as the quarries and striking them down on the slopes. So the hearts of the people melted and became like water.
Read word by wordWhen Samson arrived in Lehi, the Philistines came out shouting against him. And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him. The ropes on his arms became like burnt flax, and the bonds broke loose from his hands.
Read word by wordSaul and his troops spared Agag, along with the best of the sheep and cattle, the fat calves and lambs, and the best of everything else. They were unwilling to devote them to destruction, but they devoted to destruction all that was despised and worthless.
Read word by wordThen even the most valiant soldier with the heart of a lion will melt with fear, because all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man who has valiant men with him.
Read word by wordI am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 22.15
As smoke is blown away, You will drive them out; as wax melts before the fire, the wicked will perish in the presence of God.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 68.3
The mountains melt like wax at the presence of the LORD, before the Lord of all the earth.
Read word by wordThe wicked man will see and be grieved; he will gnash his teeth and waste away; the desires of the wicked will perish.
Read word by wordThe splendor of its forests and orchards, both soul and body, it will completely destroy, as a sickness consumes a man.
Read word by wordTherefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.
Read word by wordThis is the burden against Egypt: Behold, the LORD rides on a swift cloud; He is coming to Egypt. The idols of Egypt will tremble before Him, and the hearts of the Egyptians will melt within them.
Read word by wordTheir slain will be left unburied, and the stench of their corpses will rise; the mountains will flow with their blood.
Read word by wordAnd when they ask, ‘Why are you groaning?’ you are to say, ‘Because of the news that is coming. Every heart will melt, and every hand will go limp. Every spirit will faint, and every knee will turn to water.’ Yes, it is coming and it will surely happen, declares the Lord GOD.”
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 21.12
The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
Read word by wordShe is emptied! Yes, she is desolate and laid waste! Hearts melt, knees knock, bodies tremble, and every face grows pale!
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 2.11
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