Strong's #4864: mas'eth (pronounced mas-ayth')
from 5375; properly, (abstractly) a raising (as of the hands in prayer), or rising (of flame); figuratively, an utterance; concretely, a beacon (as raised); a present (as taken), mess, or tribute; figuratively, a reproach (as a burden):--burden, collection, sign of fire, (great) flame, gift, lifting up, mess, oblation, reward.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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maś'̂ êth
1) uprising, utterance, burden, portion, uplifting
1a) that which rises, uprising, uplifting, signal, rising
1b) utterance, oracle
1c) burden
1d) portion, present, largesse, gift, contribution, offering, tribute
Part of Speech: noun feminine
Relation: from H5375
Usage:
This word is used 16 times:
Genesis 43:34: "And he took and sent messes unto them from before him: but Benjamin's mess"
Genesis 43:34: "them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as"
Genesis 43:34: "them from before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as"
Judges 20:38: "of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city."
Judges 20:40: " But when the flame began to arise up out of the city with a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites"
2 Samuel 11:8: "departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of meat from the king."
2 Chronicles 24:6: "out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant"
2 Chronicles 24:9: "and Jerusalem, to bring in to the LORD the collection that Moses the servant of God laid upon"
Esther 2:18: "a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king."
Psalms 141:2: "be set forth before thee as incense; and the lifting up of my hands as the evening sacrifice."
Jeremiah 6:1: "and blow the trumpet in Tekoa, and set up a sign of fire in Beth-haccerem: for"
Jeremiah 40:5: "So the captain of the guard gave him victuals and a reward, and let him go."
Lamentations 2:14: "to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment."
Ezekiel 20:40: "your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things."
Amos 5:11: "the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone,"
Zephaniah 3:18: "who are of thee, to whom the reproach of it was a burden."