H4522 - מַס (maç)

H4522 מַס (maç) mas

Hebrew

Noun (Masculine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

taskworker

Strong's Definition

mas mis mas, mees From H4549; properly a burden (as causing to faint ), that is, a tax in the form of forced labor: - discomfited, levy, task [-master], tribute (-tary). LXX related word(s) G2041 ergon G2275 hettema G5056 telos G5411 phoros G5255 hupekoos *

Derivation: or מִס; from H4549 (מָסַס);

KJV Usage: discomfited, levy, task(-master), tribute(-tary).

TWOT Reference: 1218

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) gang or body of forced labourers, task-workers, labour band or gang, forced service, task-work, serfdom, tributary, tribute, levy, taskmasters, discomfited

1a) labour-band, labour-gang, slave gang

1b) gang-overseers

1c) forced service, serfdom, tribute, enforced payment

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G2041 G2275 G5056 G5255 G5411

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

1) gang or body of forced labourers, task-workers, labour band or gang, forced service, task-work, serfdom, tributary, tribute, levy, taskmasters, discomfited 1a) labour-band, labour-gang, slave gang 1b) gang-overseers 1c) forced service, serfdom, tribute, enforced payment

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מִס / מַס mas / mis BDB Definition: 1) gang or body of forced labourers, task-workers, labour band or gang, forced service, task-work, serfdom, tributary, tribute, levy, taskmasters, discomfited 1a) labour-band, labour-gang, slave gang 1b) gang-overseers 1c) forced service, serfdom, tribute, enforced payment Part of Speech: noun masculine A Related Word by BDB/Strongs Number: from H4549 Same Word by TWOT Number: 1218 Total KJV Occurrences: 23

Bible Occurrences (22)

49:15

1:11

20:11

16:10 17:13

1:28 1:30 1:33 1:35

20:24

4:6 5:13 5:14 9:15 9:21 12:18

8:8 10:18

10:1

12:24

31:8

1:1

Genesis 49:15

He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.

Exodus 1:11

So [the Egyptians] appointed taskmasters... over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh -.

Deuteronomy 20:11

If they accept your offer of peace and open [their gates], all the people [there] will become forced laborers to serve you.

Joshua 16:10

But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.

Joshua 17:13

However, when the Israelites... grew stronger, they put the Canaanites to forced labor; but they failed to drive them out completely.

Judges 1:28

When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.

Judges 1:30

Zebulun failed to drive out the inhabitants of Kitron [and] Nahalol; so the Canaanites lived among them and served as forced laborers.

Judges 1:33

Naphtali failed to drive out the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath. So [the Naphtalites] also lived among the Canaanite inhabitants of the land, but the inhabitants of Beth-shemesh and Beth-anath served them as forced laborers.