amas · load

What it means

amas (עָמַס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “load”.

Put a burden on an animal; carry.

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 lay a load on someone or on an animal.
2. To carry a weight, or to be carried as a load.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• loaded ×5
• he bears our burden ×1
• loading them ×1
• were loading it ×1
• who carry it ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 1 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Nehemiah×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×2
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 44:13

  They tore their clothes, and each man loaded his donkey, and they returned to the city.

• 1 Kings 12:11

  And now, my father loaded on you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

• 2 Chronicles 10:11

  And now, my father loaded on you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I with scorpions.’”

• Nehemiah 4:17

  Those who built on the wall and those who carried the burden were loading it: with one of his hands he did the work, and with the other he held the weapon.

• Nehemiah 13:15

  In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in the heaps and loading them on the donkeys, and also wine, grapes, and figs, and every kind of burden, and bringing them into Jerusalem on the day of the Sabbath; and I testified on the day they sold provisions.

• Psalms 68:19

  Blessed be Adonai; day after day he bears our burden, the El of our salvation. Selah.

• Isaiah 46:1

  Bel bends, Nebo stoops; their idols are for the animals and for the livestock; the things you carried are loaded, a load for the weary beast.

• Isaiah 46:3

  “Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, you who have been loaded on me from the womb, who have been carried from the mother’s womb:

• Zechariah 12:3

  And it will happen on that day that I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples; all who carry it will be severely injured; and all the nations of the earth will gather against it.