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  "type": "word",
  "id": "H4853",
  "lemma": "מַשָּׂא",
  "transliteration": "massâʼ",
  "definition": "a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly adoom, especially singing; mental, desire",
  "kjv": "burden, carry away, prophecy, [idiom] they set, song, tribute.",
  "occurrences": 65,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "builtFrom": [
    {
      "id": "H5375",
      "lemma": "נָשָׂא",
      "transliteration": "nâsâʼ",
      "meaning": "to lift",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/word/H5375"
    }
  ],
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "מַשָּׂא n.m. load, burden, lifting, bearing, tribute",
    "מַשָּׂא n.m",
    "מַשָּׂא n.m. utterance, oracle"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Exodus 23:5",
      "text": "If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 4:15",
      "text": "“When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=15"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 4:19",
      "text": "but do this to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=19"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 4:24",
      "text": "“This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=24"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 4:27",
      "text": "At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=27"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 4:31",
      "text": "This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=31"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 4:32",
      "text": "the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, their cords, with all their instruments, and with all…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=32"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 4:47",
      "text": "from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service and the…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=47"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 4:49",
      "text": "According to the commandment of the LORD they were counted by Moses, everyone according to his service and according to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=49"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Numbers 11:11",
      "text": "Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=11"
    }
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