מַשָּׂא (mas.sa) means “burden” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: mas-saw' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
מַשָּׂא · mas.sa · burden
1) load, bearing, tribute, burden, lifting 1a) load, burden 1b) lifting, uplifting, that to which the soul lifts itself up 1c) bearing, carrying 1d) tribute, that which is carried or brought or borne
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מַשָּׂא · mas.sa · oracle
utterance, oracle, burden
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from H5375 (נָשָׂא); a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly adoom, especially singing; mental, desire
KJV glosses: burden, carry away, prophecy, [idiom] they set, song, tribute.
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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 |
|---|---|
| this is the burden | 18 |
| the burden | 6 |
| burden | 5 |
| a load | 3 |
| to carry | 3 |
| a burden | 2 |
| load | 2 |
| and burden | 1 |
| and carrying | 1 |
| and the load | 1 |
| and transport | 1 |
| and what he is to carry | 1 |
| are the transportation duties | 1 |
| as tribute | 1 |
| burdens | 1 |
| camel loads | 1 |
| can carry | 1 |
| carried around | 1 |
| carry a load | 1 |
| is the burden | 1 |
| its load | 1 |
| of goods | 1 |
| of music | 1 |
| of the music | 1 |
| pronouncements | 1 |
| the burdens | 1 |
| their transport duties | 1 |
| they are a burden | 1 |
| they could carry away | 1 |
| to the burden | 1 |
| under the oppression | 1 |
| which uplifted | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| the burden | 24 |
| a burden | 4 |
| burden | 3 |
| and the burden | 2 |
| of their burden | 2 |
| the prophecy | 2 |
| this burden | 2 |
| about the song | 1 |
| against thee so that i am a burden | 1 |
| all their burdens | 1 |
| and according to his burden | 1 |
| and for burdens | 1 |
| and that whereupon they set | 1 |
| and the exaction | 1 |
| and to his burden | 1 |
| and tribute | 1 |
| and your burden | 1 |
| be yet a burden | 1 |
| burdens | 1 |
| for song | 1 |
| for the burden | 1 |
| in all their burdens | 1 |
| in no burden | 1 |
| no burden | 1 |
| of the burden | 1 |
| of the burdens | 1 |
| of the song | 1 |
| shall be his burden | 1 |
| there should no burden | 1 |
| they could carry away | 1 |
| under his burden | 1 |
| unto them what burden | 1 |
| was this burden | 1 |
| with me then thou shalt be a burden | 1 |
Page 1 of 2. 60 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
If you see the donkey of one who hates you fallen under its load, do not leave it there; you must help him with it.
Read word by wordWhen Aaron and his sons have finished covering the holy objects and all their equipment, as soon as the camp is ready to move, the Kohathites shall come and do the carrying. But they must not touch the holy objects, or they will die. These are the transportation duties of the Kohathites regarding the Tent of Meeting.
Read word by wordIn order that they may live and not die when they come near the most holy things, do this for them: Aaron and his sons are to go in and assign each man his task and what he is to carry.
Read word by wordThis is the service of the Gershonite clans regarding work and transport:
Read word by wordAll the service of the Gershonites—all their transport duties and other work—is to be done at the direction of Aaron and his sons; you are to assign to them all that they are responsible to carry.
Read word by wordThis is the duty for all their service at the Tent of Meeting: to carry the frames of the tabernacle with its crossbars, posts, and bases,
Read word by wordand the posts of the surrounding courtyard with their bases, tent pegs, and ropes, including all their equipment and everything related to their use. You shall assign by name the items that they are responsible to carry.
Read word by wordfrom thirty to fifty years old who came to do the work of serving and carrying the Tent of Meeting.
Read word by wordAt the LORD’s command through Moses they were numbered, and each one was assigned his work and burden, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Read word by wordSo Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?
Read word by wordAnd I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take some of the Spirit that is on you and put that Spirit on them. They will help you bear the burden of the people, so that you do not have to bear it by yourself.
Read word by wordBut how can I bear your troubles, burdens, and disputes all by myself?
Read word by wordDavid said to him, “If you go on with me, you will be a burden to me.
Read word by wordI am now eighty years old. Can I discern what is good and what is not? Can your servant taste what he eats or drinks? Can I still hear the voice of singing men and women? Why should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 19.36
“If you will not,” said Naaman, “please let me, your servant, be given as much soil as a pair of mules can carry. For your servant will never again make a burnt offering or a sacrifice to any other god but the LORD.
Read word by wordSo Hazael went to meet Elisha, taking with him a gift of forty camel loads of every good thing from Damascus. And he went in and stood before him and said, “Your son Ben-hadad king of Aram has sent me to ask, ‘Will I recover from this illness?’”
Read word by wordAnd Jehu said to Bidkar his officer, “Pick him up and throw him into the field of Naboth the Jezreelite. For remember that when you and I were riding together behind his father Ahab, the LORD lifted up this burden against him:
Read word by wordChenaniah the head Levite was the director of the music because he was highly skilled.
Read word by wordNow David was dressed in a robe of fine linen, as were all the Levites who were carrying the ark, as well as the singers and Chenaniah, the director of music for the singers. David also wore a linen ephod.
Read word by wordSome Philistines also brought gifts and silver as tribute to Jehoshaphat, and the Arabs brought him 7,700 rams and 7,700 goats from their flocks.
Read word by wordThen Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables—more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.
Read word by wordThe accounts of the sons of Joash and the many pronouncements about him, and of the restoration of the house of God, are indeed written in the Treatise of the Book of the Kings. And his son Amaziah reigned in his place.
Read word by wordTo the Levites who taught all Israel and were holy to the LORD, Josiah said: “Put the holy ark in the temple built by Solomon son of David king of Israel. It is not to be carried around on your shoulders. Now serve the LORD your God and His people Israel.
Read word by wordIn those days I saw people in Judah treading winepresses on the Sabbath and bringing in grain and loading it on donkeys, along with wine, grapes, and figs. All kinds of goods were being brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day. So I warned them against selling food on that day.
Read word by wordWhen the evening shadows began to fall on the gates of Jerusalem, just before the Sabbath, I ordered that the gates be shut and not opened until after the Sabbath. I posted some of my servants at the gates so that no load could enter on the Sabbath day.
Read word by wordIf I have sinned, what have I done to You, O watcher of mankind? Why have You made me Your target, so that I am a burden to You?
Read word by wordFor my iniquities have overwhelmed me; they are a burden too heavy to bear.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 38.5
These are the words of Agur son of Jakeh—the burden that this man declared to Ithiel: “I am weary, O God, and worn out.
Read word by wordThese are the words of King Lemuel—the burden that his mother taught him:
Read word by wordThis is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
Read word by wordIn the year that King Ahaz died, this burden was received:
Read word by wordThis is the burden against Moab: Ar in Moab is ruined, destroyed in a night! Kir in Moab is devastated, destroyed in a night!
Read word by wordThis is the burden against Damascus: “Behold, Damascus is no longer a city; it has become a heap of ruins.
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 wordThis is the burden against the Desert by the Sea: Like whirlwinds sweeping through the Negev, an invader comes from the desert, from a land of terror.
Read word by wordThis is the burden against Dumah: One calls to me from Seir, “Watchman, what is left of the night? Watchman, what is left of the night?”
Read word by wordThis is the burden against Arabia: In the thickets of Arabia you must lodge, O caravans of Dedanites.
Read word by wordThis is the burden against the Valley of Vision: What ails you now, that you have all gone up to the rooftops,
Read word by wordIn that day, declares the LORD of Hosts, the peg driven into a firm place will give way; it will be sheared off and fall, and the load upon it will be cut down.” Indeed, the LORD has spoken.
Read word by wordThis is the burden against Tyre: Wail, O ships of Tarshish, for Tyre is laid waste, without house or harbor. Word has reached them from the land of Cyprus.
Read word by wordThis is the burden against the beasts of the Negev: Through a land of hardship and distress, of lioness and lion, of viper and flying serpent, they carry their wealth on the backs of donkeys and their treasures on the humps of camels, to a people of no profit to them.
Read word by wordBel crouches; Nebo cowers. Their idols weigh down beasts and cattle. The images you carry are burdensome, a load to the weary animal.
Read word by wordThe gods cower; they crouch together, unable to relieve the burden; but they themselves go into captivity.
Read word by wordThis is what the LORD says: Take heed for yourselves; do not carry a load or bring it through the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
Read word by wordYou must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.
Read word by wordIf, however, you listen carefully to Me, says the LORD, and bring no load through the gates of this city on the Sabbath day, and keep the Sabbath day holy, and do no work on it,
Read word by wordBut if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”
Read word by word“Now when this people or a prophet or priest asks you, ‘What is the burden of the LORD?’ you are to say to them, ‘What burden? I will forsake you, declares the LORD.’
Read word by wordAs for the prophet or priest or anyone who claims, ‘This is the burden of the LORD,’ I will punish that man and his household.
Read word by wordBut refer no more to the burden of the LORD, for each man’s word becomes the burden, so that you pervert the words of the living God, the LORD of Hosts, our God.
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