מָסַר
masar · hand over, commit
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H4560 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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masar (מָסַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hand over, commit”.
Hand over, set apart: separate someone for a task; also turn away from someone, act unfaithfully.
How to say it
ma·sar
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
- To lead others into unfaithfulness to God, making them fall.
- To be set apart from many and made available for a task.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- cause of committing ×1
- there were handed over ×1
Where it appears
- Numbers 31:5
So there were handed over from the thousands of Israel a thousand from each tribe, twelve thousand armed for the army.
- Numbers 31:16
Look, they were, for the sons of Israel, by the word of Balaam, the cause of committing unfaithfulness against YHWH in the matter of Peor, and the plague came on the community of YHWH.