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מַסָּה

mas.sah

despair

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Strong’s H4531aNoun, feminine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

the despair of1

In the text

Job 9:23לְמַסַּת
When the scourge brings sudden death, He mocks the despair of the innocent.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[מַסָּה] n.f. despair (lit. melting, failing);—only Jb 9:23

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.