מִסָּה
miççâh · H4530 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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proportionate amount
Exact meaning unsure; probably: a quantity considered in relation to another quantity
ExamplesDeuteronomy 16:10 “Then you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a voluntary offering of your hand in a proportional amount, which you shall give just as the LORD your God blesses you;
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נְדָבָהfreewill offering 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- מֶכֶס mekeç · H4371 · proportion
- מֶכֶס denotes tribute or toll imposed by a ruling authority, synonymous with מִסָּה as a form of compulsory payment, though מֶכֶס often appears in contexts of Persian administration while מִסָּה is more general.
- מִנְחָה minchâh · H4503 · gift, tribute, offering
- While מִנְחָה primarily means offering or gift, it can denote tribute paid to a superior (as in 2 Sam 8:2, 6), overlapping with מִסָּה's sense of compulsory payment to a ruler.
In the other Testament 1 word
- φόρος phóros · G5411 · tribute tax
- Greek φόρος is the standard NT term for tribute or tax imposed by a government, directly equivalent to Hebrew מִסָּה in denoting compulsory payment to a ruling authority.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Quantity002001001046
- מִסָּה denotes tribute, a quantified amount of goods exacted from a subject party.
Word family 4 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4530. missah or missath מִסַּת noun sufficiency (derivation obscure: Aramaic מִיסַּת, ,…
or missath מִסַּת noun sufficiency (derivation obscure: Aramaic מִיסַּת, , common in ᵑ6 ᵑ7, both absolute and construct in sense of sufficiency, enough; e.g. for Hebrew רַב 2Sa 24:16 דַּי ᵑ7, Exo 36:7 ᵑ6 ᵑ7, Obadiah 5 ᵑ6 ᵑ7, for לְפִי Exo 12:4 ᵑ7; the amount of the debt, PS2183); — Deu 16:10 and thou shalt keep the pilgrimage of weeks יָָֽדְךָ נִדְבַת מִסַּת according to (adverb accusative) the sufficiency of the free-will offering of thy hand, which thou shalt give, i.e. with the full amount that thou canst afford (compare שֶׂשׁה דֵּי Lev 5:7; Lev 12:8; אִימְּרָא כְּמִיסַּת ᵑ7).
מִסְתָּר מַסְתֵּר, מִסְתּוֺר, see סתר.
[מַעְבָּד] see עבד. [מַעֲבֶה] see עבה.
[מַעֲבָר], מַעְבָּרָה see עבר.
מַעְגָּ֫לָה מַעְגָּל, see עגל.
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
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