# H4853 מַשָּׂא

מַשָּׂא (massâʼ), Strong’s H4853: a burden; specifically, tribute, or (abstractly) porterage; figuratively, an utterance, chiefly adoom, especially singing; mental, desire KJV: burden, carry away…

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*massâʼ* — 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.

Derived from [נָשָׂא nâsâʼ](https://besorah.bible/word/H5375) (to lift)

Occurs 65 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַשָּׂא n.m. load, burden, lifting, bearing, tribute
- מַשָּׂא n.m
- מַשָּׂא n.m. utterance, oracle

## Where it occurs
- [Exodus 23:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/23?v=5) — If you see the donkey of him who hates you fallen down under his burden, don’t leave him. You shall surely help him…
- [Numbers 4:15](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=15) — “When Aaron and his sons have finished covering the sanctuary and all the furniture of the sanctuary, as the camp moves…
- [Numbers 4:19](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=19) — but do this to them, that they may live, and not die, when they approach the most holy things: Aaron and his sons shall…
- [Numbers 4:24](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=24) — “This is the service of the families of the Gershonites, in serving and in bearing burdens:
- [Numbers 4:27](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=27) — At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden…
- [Numbers 4:31](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=31) — This is the duty of their burden, according to all their service in the Tent of Meeting: the tabernacle’s boards, its…
- [Numbers 4:32](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=32) — the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, their cords, with all their instruments, and with all…
- [Numbers 4:47](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=47) — from thirty years old and upward even to fifty years old, everyone who entered in to do the work of service and the…
- [Numbers 4:49](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/4?v=49) — According to the commandment of the LORD they were counted by Moses, everyone according to his service and according to…
- [Numbers 11:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/numbers/11?v=11) — Moses said to the LORD, “Why have you treated your servant so badly? Why haven’t I found favor in your sight, that you…