Strong's #4853: massa' (pronounced mas-saw')
from 5375; a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly a doom, especially singing; mental, desire:--burden, carry away, prophecy, X they set, song, tribute.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
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maśśâ'
Massa = "burden"
1) load, bearing, tribute, burden, lifting (noun masculine)
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
2) utterance, oracle, burden (noun masculine)
3) a son of Ishmael (noun proper masculine)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
Relation: from H5375
Same Word by TWOT Number: 1421d, 1421e
Usage:
This word is used 65 times:
Jeremiah 23:33: "unto them, What burden? I will even forsake you, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 23:34: "and the people, that shall say, The burden of the LORD, I will even punish that"
Jeremiah 23:36: " And the burden of the LORD shall ye mention no more: for every man's word"
Jeremiah 23:36: "every man's word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living"
Jeremiah 23:38: "But since ye say, The burden of the LORD; therefore thus saith the LORD;"
Jeremiah 23:38: "this word, The burden of the LORD, and I have sent unto you, saying,"
Jeremiah 23:38: "you, saying, Ye shall not say, The burden of the LORD;"
Ezekiel 12:10: "the Lord GOD; This burden concerneth the prince in Jerusalem, and all the house"
Ezekiel 24:25: "the desire of their eyes, and that whereupon they set their minds, their sons and their daughters,"
Hosea 8:10: "will I gather them, and they shall sorrow a little for the burden of the king of princes."
Nahum 1:1: " The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite."
Habakkuk 1:1: " The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see."
Zechariah 9:1: " The burden of the word of the LORD in the land of Hadrach, and Damascus shall be the rest thereof: when"
Zechariah 12:1: " The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth"
Malachi 1:1: " The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi."
