H4522Noun, masculine23 times in the Hebrew BibleWhere it occurs
Translated as
In the text
- Genesis 49:15לְמַס
He saw that his resting place was good and that his land was pleasant, so he bent his shoulder to the burden and submitted to labor as a servant.
- Exodus 1:11מִסִּים
So the Egyptians appointed taskmasters over the Israelites to oppress them with forced labor. As a result, they built Pithom and Rameses as store cities for Pharaoh.
- Joshua 17:13לָמַס
However, when the Israelites grew stronger, they put the Canaanites to forced labor; but they failed to drive them out completely.
- Judges 1:28לָמַס
When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.
- 1 Kings 4:6הַמַּס ס
Ahishar was in charge of the palace; and Adoniram son of Abda was in charge of the forced labor.
- 2 Chronicles 8:8לְמַס
their descendants who remained in the land, those whom the Israelites had not destroyed—Solomon conscripted these people to be forced laborers, as they are to this day.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.