# H4864 מַשְׂאֵת

מַשְׂאֵת (masʼêth), Strong’s H4864: properly, (abstractly) a raising (as of the hands in prayer), or rising (of flame); figuratively, an utterance; concretely, a beacon (as raised); a present… KJV…

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*masʼêth* — properly, (abstractly) a raising (as of the hands in prayer), or rising (of flame); figuratively, an utterance; concretely, a beacon (as raised); a present…

KJV: burden, collection, sign of fire, (great) flame, gift, lifting up, mess, oblation, reward.

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

Occurs 16 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- מַשְׂאֵת n.f. uprising, utterance, burden, portion

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 43:34](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/43?v=34) — He sent portions to them from before him, but Benjamin’s portion was five times as much as any of theirs. They drank…
- [Judges 20:38](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/20?v=38) — Now the appointed sign between the men of Israel and the ambushers was that they should make a great cloud of smoke…
- [Judges 20:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/judges/20?v=40) — But when the cloud began to arise up out of the city in a pillar of smoke, the Benjamites looked behind them; and…
- [2 Samuel 11:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/2-samuel/11?v=8) — David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift…
- [Jeremiah 6:1](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/6?v=1) — “Flee for safety, you children of Benjamin, out of the middle of Jerusalem! Blow the shofar in Tekoa and raise up a…
- [Jeremiah 40:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/jeremiah/40?v=5) — Now while he had not yet gone back, “Go back then,” he said, “to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, whom…
- [Ezekiel 20:40](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/ezekiel/20?v=40) — For in my holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel,” says the Lord GOD, “there all the house of Israel…
- [Amos 5:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/amos/5?v=11) — Therefore, because you trample on the poor and take taxes from him of wheat, you have built houses of cut stone, but…
- [Zephaniah 3:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/zephaniah/3?v=18) — I will remove those who grieve about the appointed feasts from you. They are a burden and a reproach to you.
- [Psalms 141:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/psalms/141?v=2) — Let my prayer be set before you like incense; the lifting up of my hands like the evening sacrifice.