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מַסָּע

mas.sa

quarry

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Strong’s H4551aNoun, masculine1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

quarry1

In the text

1 Kings 6:7מַסָּע
The temple was constructed using finished stones cut at the quarry, so that no hammer or chisel or any other iron tool was heard in the temple while it was being built.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מַסָּע n.[m.] quarry or quarrying;—only abs. as adv. 1 K 6:7

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.