הֶ֫מֶס
brushwood
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H2003 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Isaiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
המס (hâmâç) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “brushwood.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Isaiah, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It occurs only once, in Isaiah 64:2. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H2003 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Isaiah 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Melting 1×
- American Standard Version: Brushwood 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Brushwood 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Brushwood 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H2003 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H2003 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H2003 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H2003 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- brushwood
Word origin
[ הֶ֫מֶס ] n.[m.] only pl. brushwood Is 64:1
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root apparently meaning to crackle
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מָסַס
- (b. h.) to melt, dissolve.
- , נִימּוֹס, נִימַּס to melt, be liquefied; to fall away; to faint; to despair. Ex. R. s. 25 נִימּוֹסִּין (Var. נִימַּסִּין) they faint. Yalk. ib. 251 התחילו נְמַסִּין they began to lose heart; Mekh. B’shall., Shir., s. 9 לֵהָמֵס. Deut. R. s. 1, end תִּימַּס עינו וכ׳ may this man’s (thy) eye run out. Maasr. I, 2 הרמונים משיִמַּסּוּ pomegranates are subject to tithes when their core becomes pulpy; expl. Y. ib. 48ᵈ bot. משיתמעך אוכל וכ׳ (cmp. מִסְמֵס II) when the eatable portion (core) can be mashed under one’s fingers; [anoth. definition taking our w. in the sense of falling away, diminution; משיכניסו מחצה when the ripening core is reduced to half the capacity of the cavity,—upon which the remark is made, דילמא … הֵמַסּוּ … פלגון לבבנו perhaps he learned it from the homiletical teachers who interpret hemassu &c. (Deut. I, 28), they divided our hearts (an allusion to Num. R. s. 17)]. e.g. Deuteronomy 1:28
- to cause to melt away. Deut. R. s. 2, beg. (ref. to Ps. XXXIX, 12) כל חמדה … הֵמַסְתָּ אותה וכ׳ (not אותו) all the delight which Moses longed for, to enter the land,—thou hast caused it to decay as a moth enters garments and makes them decay. V. מָסָה. e.g. Psalms 39:12
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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