מַסַּעmaççaʻ

pulling up, breaking camp, setting out, journey

Pronunciation: mas-sah' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4550

Meanings

1.

a. pulling up, breaking (Numbers 10:2)

b. setting out (Numbers 10:6; Numbers 10:23)

2. station, stage, journey (Genesis 13:3; Exodus 17:1; Exodus 40:36)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 12 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 13:3 From the Negev, they continued traveling by stages toward Bethel, and they pitched their tents between Bethel and Ai, where they had camped before.
  • Exodus 17:1 At the Lord’s command, the whole community of Israel left the wilderness of Sin and moved from place to place. Eventually they camped at Rephidim, but there was no water there for the people to drink.
  • Exodus 40:36 Now whenever the cloud lifted from the Tabernacle, the people of Israel would set out on their journey, following it.
  • Exodus 40:38 The cloud of the Lord hovered over the Tabernacle during the day, and at night fire glowed inside the cloud so the whole family of Israel could see it. This continued throughout all their journeys.
  • Numbers 10:2 “Make two trumpets of hammered silver for calling the community to assemble and for signaling the breaking of camp.
  • Numbers 10:6 When you sound the signal a second time, the tribes camped on the south will follow. You must sound short blasts as the signal for moving on.
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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).