maset · portion, gift

What it means

maset (מַשְׂאֵת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “portion, gift”.

A portion of food sent from a table as an honor. In other passages, a burden, a tribute, a signal raised up.

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. Something that rises high, like a column of smoke going up.
2. Food or a gift sent to someone as a mark of honor.
3. What is set aside and lifted up for another: tribute, tax or offering.
4. A weight carried, or a heavy message from God.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• levy ×3
• gift ×2
• signal ×2
• Portions were carried ×1
• burden ×1
• burdens ×1
• cloud ×1
• gifts ×1
• lifting up ×1
• portion ×1
• others ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Judges×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Esther×1
• Psalms×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Amos×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 43:34

  Portions were carried to them from before him, and Benjamin’s portion was five times larger than the portions of all of them. They drank and became drunk with him.

• Judges 20:38

  Now the agreed signal between the men of Israel and the ambush was that they should send up from the city a great cloud of smoke.

• Judges 20:40

  But the signal began to go up from the city, a column of smoke; and Benjamin turned behind him, and look, the whole city was going up toward the heavens.

• 2 Samuel 11:8

  David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah went out from the house of the king, and a gift from the king went out after him.

• 2 Chronicles 24:6

  The king called Jehoiada the head and said to him, “Why have you not required of the Levites to bring from Judah and from Jerusalem the levy of Moses, the servant of YHWH, and of the assembly of Israel, for the tent of the testimony?”

• 2 Chronicles 24:9

  They made a proclamation in Judah and in Jerusalem to bring to YHWH the levy that Moses, the servant of Elohim, had laid on Israel in the wilderness.

• Esther 2:18

  And the king made a great banquet for all his officials and his servants, Esther’s banquet; and he made a rest for the provinces and gave gifts according to the hand of the king.

• Psalms 141:2

  Let my prayer be established as incense before you, the lifting up of my palms as the evening offering.

• Jeremiah 6:1

  Flee for safety, sons of Benjamin, from the midst of Jerusalem, and in Tekoa blow the horn, and over Beth-haccherem raise a signal, for evil looks down from the north, and a great breaking.

• Jeremiah 40:5

  And as he had not yet turned back, he said, “Go back to Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan, whom the king of Babylon has appointed over the cities of Judah, and live with him among the people; or wherever it is right in your eyes to go, go.” And the chief of the guard gave him provisions and a gift, and let him go.

• Lamentations 2:14

  Your prophets have seen for you what is empty and insipid, and they have not exposed your iniquity to bring back your captivity; they have seen for you burdens that are empty and deceptions.

• Ezekiel 20:40

  For on my holy mountain, on the mountain height of Israel, declares Adonai YHWH, there all the house of Israel, all of it, will serve me in the land; there I will accept them, and there I will require your contributions and the first of your presents with all your holy things.

• Amos 5:11

  Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take a levy of grain from him, houses of hewn stone you have built, but you will not live in them; pleasant vineyards you have planted, but you will not drink their wine.

• Zephaniah 3:18

  “Those grieving far from the appointed feast I have gathered; from you they were; a burden on her was the reproach.

And 2 more times.