מַשְׂאֵת
burden
also: uprising, utterance, portion, uplifting fuller range ↓
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
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H4864 appears in the Book of Amos — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Amos
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.
The Hebrew noun משאת centers on the idea of “burden.” Alongside “burden” the lexicon also lists “uprising”, “utterance”, and “portion” — part of its full sense range. It turns up in 14 verses across 11 books, an uncommon footprint. Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 43:34. It shares a root with נשא, משא and משא. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4864 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 →
- 14
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 14 distinct verses.
- 11 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 11 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #1,752
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 1,752 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 14 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Judges 2 verses 14%
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 14%
- Jeremiah 2 verses 14%
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 14 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 8 verses · 57%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 36%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 7%
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: Burdens 2×, Collection 2×, Flame 2×
- American Standard Version: Tax 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Gift 2×, Gifts 2×, Tax 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Servings 2×, Tribute of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4864 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4864 across 15 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 13 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4864 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4864 across 18 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 14 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
11 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 11 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. that which rises, uprising, uplifting:
- a. מ׳ הֶעָשָׁן Ju 20:38 uprising of smoke, cf. (הֶע׳ om.) v 40. e.g. Judges 20:38
- b. in gen. = signal Je 6:1 (= נֵס Gf). e.g. Jeremiah 6:1
- c. uplifting of hands (כַּפַּי) in prayer ψ 141:2 (‖ תְּפִלָּה). e.g. Psalms 141:2
- 2. utterance, oracle (= iii. מַשָּׂא), La 2:14 (Bu Löhr). e.g. Lamentations 2:14
- 3. burden Zp 3:18 (of reproach, fig.). e.g. Zephaniah 3:18
- 4.
- a. portion (carried to some one), especially from table of king or superior, Gn 43:34(×3) (J; on custom v. Di and reff.), 2 S 11:8; so read perhaps also 2 S 19:43 (for MT נִשֵּׂאת) Gr HPS. e.g. Genesis 43:34
- b. perhaps also more gen., present, largess from a superior Je 40:5 (+ אֲרֻחָה food-allowance), Est 2:18 (כְּיַד הַמֶּלֶךְ). e.g. Jeremiah 40:5
- c. exacted or enforced gift, from inferior, מ׳ בַּר Am 5:11 (cf. Ph. supr.; v. also מנחה). e.g. Amos 5:11
- d. sacred contribution, tax מ׳ מֹשֶׁה (י׳) עֶבֶד 2 Ch 24:6, 9. e.g. 2 Chronicles 24:6
- e. offering to י׳ Ez 20:40. e.g. Ezekiel 20:40
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. uprising, utterance, burden, portion (on format. cf. Ol§ 109 a Sta§ 272 b Köii. 1, 183; Ph. (Pun) has משאת = payment, tax v. Lzb 326);—abs. מ׳ Ju 20:40 +; cstr. מַשְׂאַת Gn 43:34 +; pl. abs. מַשְׂאֹת Gn 43:34, + (prob.) מַשְׂאוֹת La 2:14 (v. infr.); cstr. מַשְׂאֹת Gn 43:34;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from נשא (nâsâʼ) (H5375) — to lift.
Forms in the corpus
The 15 distinct written forms H4864 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4864, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- משא massâʼ H4853 burden
- משא massôʼ H4856 partiality
- משאה massâʼâh H4858 uplifting
- מתנשא mithnassêʼ H4984 to exalt oneself
- נשא nᵉsâʼ H5376 to lift
- נשאת nissêʼth H5379 portion
- נשואה nᵉsûwʼâh H5385 load
- נשיא nâsîyʼ H5387 chief
- שאת sᵉʼêth H7613 exaltation
- שוא sôwʼ H7721 rising
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 13 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 14 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 14 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 43:34
- Judges 20:38
- 2 Samuel 11:8
- 2 Chronicles 24:6
- Esther 2:18
- Psalms 141:2
- Jeremiah 6:1
- Lamentations 2:14
- Ezekiel 20:40
- Amos 5:11
- Zephaniah 3:18
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
