Strong's #4531: maccah (pronounced mas-saw')
from 5254; a testing, of men (judicial) or of God (querulous):--temptation, trial.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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massâh
1) despair, test
1a) despair
1b) testing, proving, trial
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H5254
Usage:
This word is used 5 times:
Deuteronomy 4:34: "him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war,"
Deuteronomy 7:19: "The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty"
Deuteronomy 29:3: "The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great"
Job 9:23: "slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent."
Psalms 95:8: "your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness:"