מָס
mâç · H4523 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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despairing
Literally: melting or molten; hence: state in which humans have lost all courage
ExamplesJob 6:14 “For the despairing man there should be kindness from his friend; So that he does not abandon the fear of the Almighty.
How it’s used In 1 role
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the word studied the word it goes with
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- לto/for 1
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Contrasting words 1 word
- חָזַק châzaq · H2388 · to be strong, to prevail, to overcome
- Hebrew verb expressing strength, courage, and firmness, the direct lexical opposite of being afflicted, melted, or weakened as conveyed by מָס.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Afraid002001002001
- מָס describes a person overcome with despair or dread, as in Job's appeal that kindness is due "the despairing man" so that he does not abandon the fear of the Almighty.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4523. mas II. [מַס] adjective despairing (literally melting, i.e. failing, collapsing);…
II. [מַס] adjective despairing (literally melting, i.e. failing, collapsing); — לַמָּס Job 6:14 to him also despaireth belongeth kindness, etc.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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