מַחְסֵיָהMachçêyâh
proper name, masculine: ancestor of Baruch and Seraiah (Jeremiah 32:12; Jeremiah 51:59)
Pronunciation: makh-say-yaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4271
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 2 times in the Bible.
- Jeremiah 32:12 and I handed them to Baruch son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah. I did all this in the presence of my cousin Hanamel, the witnesses who had signed the deed, and all the men of Judah who were there in the courtyard of the guardhouse.
- Jeremiah 51:59 The prophet Jeremiah gave this message to Seraiah son of Neriah and grandson of Mahseiah, a staff officer, when Seraiah went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah. This was during the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).