מַסָּה
masa · testing, trial
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4531 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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masa (מַסָּה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “testing, trial”.
A testing: an act by which someone is put to the test. It is also the name of the place called Massah.
How to say it
ma·sa
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
- Putting someone through hardships that reveal what is in them.
- Desert place where Israel put God to the test.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- trials ×3
- Massah ×1
- trial ×1
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Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 4:34
Or has a god tried to come and take for himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a strong hand and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that YHWH your Elohim did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
- Deuteronomy 7:19
the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs and the wonders, the strong hand and the outstretched arm by which YHWH your Elohim brought you out. So YHWH your Elohim will do to all the peoples of whom you are afraid.
- Deuteronomy 29:3
the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs and those great wonders.
- Job 9:23
If a scourge kills suddenly, he mocks at the trial of the innocent.
- Psalms 95:8
do not harden your heart as at Meribah, as on the day of Massah in the wilderness,