masa · stage of a journey

What it means

masa (מַסַּע) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “stage of a journey”.

The stretch from one camp to the next; setting out.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To break camp and set out, as the people did in the wilderness.
2. Each leg of a journey, between one camp and the next.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• stages ×5
• journeys ×3
• settings out ×2
• journey ×1
• setting out ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Exodus×3
• Numbers×7
• Deuteronomy×1

• Genesis 13:3

  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

  All the community of the sons of Israel set out from the wilderness of Sin, by their stages, according to the command of YHWH, and camped at Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink.

• Exodus 40:36

  And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the dwelling, the sons of Israel would set out, in all their journeys.

• Exodus 40:38

  For the cloud of YHWH was on the dwelling by day, and fire was in it by night, before the eyes of all the house of Israel, in all their journeys.

• Numbers 10:2

  “Make for yourself two trumpets of silver; of hammered work you shall make them; and they shall be for you for summoning the community and for setting out the camps.

• Numbers 10:6

  And when you blow an acclamation the second time, the camps that camp on the south side shall set out; an acclamation they shall blow for their settings out.

• Numbers 10:12

  And the sons of Israel set out by stages from the wilderness of Sinai, and the cloud settled in the wilderness of Paran.

• Numbers 10:28

  These were the settings out of the sons of Israel by their armies; and they set out.

• Numbers 33:1

  These are the stages of the sons of Israel, who went out of the land of Egypt by their armies under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

• Numbers 33:2

  Moses wrote down their departures by their stages at the command of YHWH; and these are their stages by their departures.

• Deuteronomy 10:11

  YHWH said to me, “Get up, go on the journey before the people, so that they may go in and take possession of the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”

And 1 more times.