Word

מַסָּה

maççâh · H4531 · Hebrew · 4 occurrences

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Meanings

proving, trial

Literally: a test; hence: a supernatural act of a deity, performed by the deity himself or in his name; in order to assert his power and greatness

Examples
Deuteronomy 4:34 “Or has a god ventured to go to take for himself a nation from within another nation by trials, by signs and wonders, by war, by a mighty hand, by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, just as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
Deuteronomy 7:19 the great trials which your eyes saw and the signs and the wonders, and the mighty hand and the outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out. The LORD your God will do the same to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
Deuteronomy 29:3 the great trials which your eyes have seen, those great signs and wonders.

How it’s used In 4 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

נָקִיinnocent 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

גָּדוֹלgreat, large 2
רָאָהto see 2

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 2 groups

אוֹתsign, miraculous sign 1
מוֹפֵתwonder, sign 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for 2
בin/on/with 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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Semantic domains 2 entries

Extraordinary002001003006: מַסָּה describes an extraordinary trial or testing, illustrated at Deuteronomy 4:34 ("by trials, by signs and wonders... just as the LORD your God did for you in Egypt") and Deuteronomy 7:19 ("the great trials which your eyes saw").
Names of Locations003001010: This domain is shared with the identically-spelled place name Massah (מַסָּה (Maççâh, H4532)); מַסָּה's own sampled citations describe the extraordinary trials of the exodus generally rather than independently attesting a place-name usage.

Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

נָסָה nâçâh · H5254 · to test, to put to the test, to get used to · 36×מַסָּהmaççâh · H4531

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4531. maccah I. [מַסָּה] noun feminine despair (literally melting, failing); — only…

H4531. maccah
I. [מַסָּה] noun feminine despair (literally melting, failing); — only יִלְעָ֑ג נְקִיִּים לְמַסַּת Job 9:23 at the despair of innocent ones he mocketh; so ᵑ7 Ew Di Bu Du > Ges Hi and others trial (by calamity), √ נסה.
II. מַסָּה noun feminine test, trial, proving; — ׳מ Psa 95:8; construct מַסַּת Job 9:23; plural מַסֹּת Deu 4:34; Deu 7:19, מַסּוֺת Deu 29:2; — testingsor provings of Pharaoh and Egyptians at Exodus, Deu 4:34 (see Dr), Deu 7:19; Deu 29:2 (|| אֹתֹת); — test, trial, of innocent person Job 9:23 according to Hi and others, but see I. מַסָּה below מסס.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Extraordinary4 occurrences Names of Locations0 occurrences

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