Word

מַסַּע

maççaʻ · H4550 · Hebrew · 12 occurrences

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Meanings

march, journey

Action by which a relatively large company of humans, together with their possessions, moves from one temporary residence to another

Examples
Genesis 13:3 And he went on his journeys from the Negev as far as Bethel, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Ai,
Exodus 17:1 Then all the congregation of the sons of Israel journeyed by stages from the wilderness of Sin, according to the command of the LORD, and camped at Rephidim, and there was no water for the people to drink.
Exodus 40:36 Throughout their journeys, whenever the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the sons of Israel would set out;
breaking camp, setting out

Causative action by which a leader causes a relatively large company of humans, together with their possessions, to depart from a place where they had set up a temporary residence

Examples
Numbers 10:2 “Make yourself two trumpets of silver, you shall make them of hammered work; and you shall use them for summoning the congregation and breaking camp.
Numbers 10:6 “Then when you sound an alarm the second time, the camps that are pitched on the south side shall set out; an alarm is to be sounded for them to break camp.

How it’s used In 5 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

10 occurrences in 3 groups

הֶםtheir 7
בֵּןson 2
הוּhis 1

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

יָצָאto go out 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

אֵלֶּהthese 2

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

אֵלֶּהthese 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

9 occurrences in 2 groups

לto/for 13
בin/on/with 4

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 1 entry

Move002002001012: מַסַּע denotes a journey or the act of setting out and traveling, as with Abram's journeys from the Negev, or Israel's journeys by stages through the wilderness under the cloud's guidance.

Word family 3 words

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

נָסַע nâçaʻ · H5265 · to pull out, to pull up, to uproot · 146×מַסַּעmaççaʻ · H4550מַסָּע maççâʻ · H4551 · quarry, dart · 2×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4550. massa מַסַּע noun [masculine] pulling up, breaking camp, setting out, journey; —…

H4550. massa
מַסַּע noun [masculine] pulling up, breaking camp, setting out, journey; — absolute ׳מ Num 10:2; Deu 10:11; plural construct מַסְעֵי Num 10:28; Num 33:1; suffix מַסָּעָיו Gen 13:3, מַסְעֵיהֶם Exo 17:1 Exo 17:6t.; —
1. a. pulling up, breaking camp (with accusative מַחֲנֶה; Ges§ 45e, 115d) Num 10:2.
b. setting out Num 10:6, compare Num 10:23.
2 station, stage, journey (by stages), לְמ ׳וַיֵּלֶךְ Gen 13:3 and he went by (according to) his journeyings (compare הלך, p. 231 a above); לְמַסְעֵיהֶם Exo 17:1; compare Exo 40:36, Exo 40:38; Num 10:12 (all P; all with נָסַע), Num 33:1-2,(|| מוֺצָאֵיהֶם), Num 33:2 (|| id.); לְמַסַּע לֵךְ קוּם Deu 10:11 for journeying (see Dr).

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

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Move12 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