masas · melt

What it means

masas (מָסַס) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “melt”.

Lose heart.

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 dissolve with heat, like wax or manna in the sun.
2. To lose courage and strength from fear, as if the heart melted.
3. Despicable and worthless: what is not worth keeping.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• melted ×8
• will melt ×4
• melts ×3
• melt ×2
• will utterly melt ×2
• like the wasting away ×1
• worthless ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×3
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×4
• Ezekiel×1
• Micah×1
• Nahum×1

• Exodus 16:21

  They gathered it morning by morning, each according to what he could eat; and when the sun grew hot, it melted.

• Deuteronomy 1:28

  Where are we going up? Our brothers have melted our heart, saying, ‘A people greater and taller than we; cities great and fortified up to the heavens; and also we saw the sons of the Anakim there.’”

• Deuteronomy 20:8

  And the supervisors shall speak further to the people and say, “Who is the man who is afraid and soft of heart? Let him go and return to his house, so that the heart of his brothers does not melt like his heart.”

• Joshua 2:11

  We heard it, and our heart melted, and there did not remain any more spirit in any man because of you, for YHWH your Elohim, he is Elohim in the heavens above and on the earth below.

• Joshua 5:1

  And it came about, when all the kings of the Amorite who were beyond the Jordan to the west, and all the kings of the Canaanite who were by the sea, heard how YHWH had dried up the waters of the Jordan before the sons of Israel until they had crossed, that their heart melted, and there was no spirit in them any longer because of the sons of Israel.

• Joshua 7:5

  The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them, and pursued them from before the gate as far as Shebarim, and struck them on the descent. And the heart of the people melted and became water.

• Judges 15:14

  He came as far as Lehi, and the Philistines shouted in triumph to meet him. And the spirit of YHWH came powerfully upon him, and the ropes that were on his arms became like flax that has burned in fire, and his bonds melted from off his hands.

• 1 Samuel 15:9

  But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the flock and the herd, the second-born and the lambs, and all that was good, and they were not willing to devote them to destruction; but all the property that was despised and worthless, that they devoted to destruction.

• 2 Samuel 17:10

  And even he, the valiant man whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father is a mighty man, and valiant men are those who are with him.

• Psalms 22:14

  Like water I have been poured out, and all my bones have come apart; my heart has become like wax, it has melted within my inward parts.

• Psalms 68:2

  As smoke is blown away, you blow them away; as wax melts before the fire, let the wicked perish before Elohim.

• Psalms 97:5

  The mountains melted like wax before YHWH, before the Lord of all the earth.

• Psalms 112:10

  The wicked will see it and be vexed; he will grind his teeth and melt away; the desire of the wicked will perish.

• Isaiah 10:18

  And the glory of his forest and of his fruitful land he will consume, from soul even to flesh; and it will be like the wasting away of a sick man.

• Isaiah 13:7

  Therefore all hands will go limp, and every heart of a mortal will melt.

• Isaiah 19:1

  The burden of Egypt. Look, YHWH is riding on a swift cloud and is coming to Egypt; and the idols of Egypt tremble before him, and the heart of Egypt melts within it.

• Isaiah 34:3

  And their slain will be cast out, and from their corpses their stench will rise, and the mountains will melt with their blood.

• Ezekiel 21:7

  And it will be, when they say to you, ‘Why are you sighing?’ you will say, ‘Because of the news, for it is coming; and every heart will melt, and all hands will go limp, and every spirit will grow faint, and all knees will run with water. Look, it is coming, and it will happen, declares Adonai YHWH.’”

• Micah 1:4

  And the mountains will melt under him, and the valleys will split open, like wax before the fire, like waters poured down a slope.

• Nahum 2:10

  Empty, and emptied, and devastated; and the heart melts, and the knees totter, and trembling is in every waist, and the faces of all of them grow pale.

And 1 more times.