# H4549 מָסַס

מָסַס (mâçaç), Strong’s H4549: to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief) KJV: discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, [idiom] utterly…

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*mâçaç* — to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)

KJV: discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, [idiom] utterly.

Occurs 21 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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)

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 16:21](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/16?v=21) — They gathered it morning by morning, everyone according to his eating. When the sun grew hot, it melted.
- [Deuteronomy 1:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/1?v=28) — Where are we going up? Our brothers have made our heart melt, saying, ‘The people are greater and taller than we. The…
- [Deuteronomy 20:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/20?v=8) — The officers shall speak further to the people, and they shall say, “What man is there who is fearful and…
- [Joshua 2:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/2?v=11) — 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…
- [Joshua 5:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/5?v=1) — When all the kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, who were…
- [Joshua 7:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/joshua/7?v=5) — The men of Ai struck about thirty-six men of them. They chased them from before the gate even to Shebarim, and struck…
- [Judges 15:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/15?v=14) — When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. Then the LORD’s Spirit came mightily on him, and the…
- [1 Samuel 15:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-samuel/15?v=9) — 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…
- [2 Samuel 17:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/17?v=10) — Even he who is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knows that your father…
- [Isaiah 10:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/10?v=18) — He will consume the glory of his forest and of his fruitful field, both soul and body. It will be as when a standard…