{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4549",
  "lemma": "מָסַס",
  "transliteration": "mâçaç",
  "definition": "to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)",
  "kjv": "discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, [idiom] utterly.",
  "occurrences": 21,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[מָסַס] vb. dissolve, melt, intr.",
    "Qal Inf. cstr. like the melting",
    "Niph.",
    "1. melt (intr.)",
    "2. most oft. fig. of heart = faint, grow fearful",
    "3. Pt. = wasted, consumptive (?)",
    "Hiph Pf. cause to melt (= intimidate)"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 16:21",
      "text": "They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=21"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 1:28",
      "text": "Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/1?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 20:8",
      "text": "The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/20?v=8"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 2:11",
      "text": "As soon as we had heard it, our hearts melted, and there wasn’t any more spirit in any man, because of you: for the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/2?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 5:1",
      "text": "When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/5?v=1"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Joshua 7:5",
      "text": "The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Judges 15:14",
      "text": "When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then the LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/15?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Samuel 15:9",
      "text": "But Saul and the people spared Agag and the best of the sheep, of the cattle, of the fat calves, of the lambs, and all…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/15?v=9"
    },
    {
      "reference": "2 Samuel 17:10",
      "text": "Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/17?v=10"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 10:18",
      "text": "He will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=18"
    }
  ],
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