# H4522 מַס

מַס (maç), Strong’s H4522: properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor KJV: discomfited, levy, task(-master), tribute(-tary).. Occurs 23 times.

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*maç* — properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor

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

Derived from [מָסַס mâçaç](https://besorah.bible/word/H4549) (to liquefy)

Occurs 23 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַס n.m. usu. coll. body of forced labourers, task-workers, labour-band or gang, also (late) forced service, task-work, serfdom

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 49:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/49?v=15) — He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and…
- [Exodus 1:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/1?v=11) — Therefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh…
- [Deuteronomy 20:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/20?v=11) — It shall be, if it gives you answer of peace and opens to you, then it shall be that all the people who are found…
- [Joshua 16:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/16?v=10) — They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the territory of Ephraim to this…
- [Joshua 17:13](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/17?v=13) — When the children of Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them…
- [Judges 1:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=28) — When Israel had grown strong, they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.
- [Judges 1:30](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=30) — Zebulun didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among…
- [Judges 1:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=33) — Naphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the…
- [Judges 1:35](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/1?v=35) — but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim. Yet the hand of the house of Joseph…
- [2 Samuel 20:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/20?v=24) — Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor, Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder,