מַשְׂאֵתmasʼêth
uprising, utterance, burden, portion
Pronunciation: mas-ayth' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4864
Meanings
1. that which rises, uprising, uplifting
a. uprising of smoke (Judges 20:38; Judges 20:40)
c. uplifting (Psalms 141:2)
2. utterance, oracle, (= III. מַשָּׂא) (Lamentations 2:14)
3. burden (Zephaniah 3:18)
4.
a. portion, (carried to some one), especially from table of king or superior (Genesis 43:34; 2 Samuel 11:8; 2 Samuel 19:43)
b. perhaps also more generally, present, largess from a superior (Jeremiah 40:5; Esther 2:18)
c. exacted or enforced gift, from inferior (Amos 5:11)
d. sacred contribution, tax (2 Chronicles 24:6; 2 Chronicles 24:9)
e. offering to ׳ י (Ezekiel 20:40)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 15 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 43:34 And Joseph filled their plates with food from his own table, giving Benjamin five times as much as he gave the others. So they feasted and drank freely with him.
- Judges 20:38 They had arranged to send up a large cloud of smoke from the town as a signal.
- Judges 20:40 But when the warriors of Benjamin looked behind them and saw the smoke rising into the sky from every part of the town,
- 2 Samuel 11:8 Then he told Uriah, “Go on home and relax.” David even sent a gift to Uriah after he had left the palace.
- 2 Chronicles 24:6 So the king called for Jehoiada the high priest and asked him, “Why haven’t you demanded that the Levites go out and collect the Temple taxes from the towns of Judah and from Jerusalem? Moses, the servant of the Lord, levied this tax on the community of Israel in order to maintain the Tabernacle of the Covenant.”
- 2 Chronicles 24:9 Then a proclamation was sent throughout Judah and Jerusalem, telling the people to bring to the Lord the tax that Moses, the servant of God, had required of the Israelites in the wilderness.
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).