Strong's #4549: macac (pronounced maw-sas')

a primitive root; to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief):--discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, X utterly.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

mâsas

1) to dissolve, melt

1a) (Qal) to waste away

1b) (Niphal)

1b1) to melt, vanish, drop off, melt away

1b2) to faint, grow fearful (figuratively)

1b3) wasted, worthless (participle)

1c) (Hiphil) to cause to melt

Part of Speech: verb

Relation: a primitive root

Usage:

This word is used 21 times:

 

Exodus 16:21: "according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted."
Deuteronomy 1:28: "shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people"
Deuteronomy 20:8: "lest his brethren's heart faint as well as his heart."
Joshua 2:11: "And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man"
Joshua 5:1: "of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit"
Joshua 7:5: "them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water."
Judges 15:14: "was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands."
1 Samuel 15:9: "utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly."
2 Samuel 17:10: "whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all"
2 Samuel 17:10: "whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all"
Psalms 22:14: "my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels."
Psalms 68:2: "is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked"
Psalms 97:5: "The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence"
Psalms 112:10: "it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish."
Isaiah 10:18: "both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer fainteth."
Isaiah 13:7: "be faint, and every man's heart shall melt:"
Isaiah 19:1: "at his presence, and the heart of Egypt shall melt in the midst"
Isaiah 34:3: "shall come up out of their carcasses, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood."
Ezekiel 21:7: "because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble,"
Micah 1:4: "And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before"
Nahum 2:10: "and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all"