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עָמַס

ʻâmaç · H6006 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to pick up, to lift up

    Action by which humans take hold of objects and carry them from place to place

    Examples

    Nehemiah 4:17 Those who were rebuilding the wall and those who carried burdens carried with one hand doing the work, and the other keeping hold of a weapon.

    Zechariah 12:3 “It will come about on that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who lift it will injure themselves severely. And all the nations of the earth will be gathered against it.

  2. to load

    Causative action by which humans cause animals to carry a load

    Examples

    Genesis 44:13 Then they tore their clothes in grief, and when each man had loaded his donkey, they returned to the city.

    1 Kings 12:11 ‘Now then, my father loaded you with a heavy yoke; yet I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions!’”

    2 Chronicles 10:11 ‘Now then, my father loaded you with a heavy yoke; yet I will add to your yoke. My father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions!’”

  3. to bear, to support

    Literally: to carry a load; hence: action by which deities provide care and protection to humans

    Examples

    Psalm 68:19 Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears our burden, The God who is our salvation. Selah

    Isaiah 46:3 “Listen to Me, house of Jacob, And all the remnant of the house of Israel, You who have been carried by Me from birth And have been carried from the womb;

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

8 occurrences in 7 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

6 occurrences in 4 groups

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Named alongside itApposition

1 occurrences in 2 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

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 1 word
נָשָׂא nâsâʼ · H5375 · to become high, to be lifted up, to rise
Both words denote carrying or bearing a load, in the area of weight-bearing and transport.
Semantic domains 2 entries
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עָמַס describes loading or bearing a burden, as in Genesis 44:13's "each man had loaded his donkey" and 1 Kings 12:11's "my father loaded you with a heavy yoke."
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This domain reflects a shading of the word's burden-bearing sense connected to being supported or upheld, part of its broader range beyond the citations shown here.
Word family 2 words

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

עָמַסʻâmaç · H6006מַעֲמָסָה maʻămâçâh · H4614 · heavy stone · 1×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H6006. amas [עָמַס, ?עָמַשׂ] verb 1. load. 2 carry a load (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician…
H6006. amas
[עָמַס, ?עָמַשׂ] verb 1. load.
2 carry a load (Late Hebrew id.; Phoenician עמס carry; compare possibly Arabic gravis et obscurus fuit dies (Frey)); —
Qal Imperfect3masculine singular וַיַּעֲמֹס Gen 44:13, יַעֲמָסֿ Psa 68:20; Participle active עֹמְסִים Neh 13:15; עֹמְשִׂים Neh 4:11 (but see below); suffix עֹמְסֶיהָ Zec 12:3; passive עֲמֻסִים Isa 46:3, עֲמוּסוֺת Isa 46:1; —
1 load (object omitted) upon (עַל) ass Gen 44:13 (E), Neh 13:15; so absolute Neh 4:11, literally, si vera lectio (see BeRy Ryle); but read probably חֲמֻשִׁים RyKau.
2 carry a load Psa 68:20 (׳י, for (ל) his people), carry as a load Zec 12:3 (figurative), passive Isa 46:1 (literal), Isa 46:3 (figurative). **
Hiph`il Perfect3masculine singular הֶעְמִיס 1Ki 12:11 load upon (accusative of thing + עַל person) = 2Ch 10:11.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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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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