Strong's Definition
or mic {mees}; from 4549; properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor
KJV Usage: discomfited, levy, task(-master), tribute(-tary)
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מַס (mas) — taskworker. 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m
Classes
conscripted laborers = a class of people who are enlisted compulsorily to do work for others
GEN 49:15 · EXO 1:11 · DEU 20:11 · JOS 16:10 · JOS 17:13 · JDG 1:28 · JDG 1:30 · JDG 1:33 · JDG 1:35 · 2SA 20:24 · 1KI 4:6 · 1KI 5:27 · 1KI 5:27 · 1KI 5:28 · 1KI 9:15 · 1KI 9:21 · 1KI 12:18 · 2CH 8:8 · 2CH 10:18 · PRO 12:24 · ISA 31:8 · LAM 1:1
Non-Possess
tribute = an amount of money that is to be paid to a foreign ruler as a sign of dependence
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
מַס n.m. usu. coll. body of forced labourers, task-workers, labour-band or gang, also (late) forced service, task-work, serfdom base