Strong's Definition
a primitive root; to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
KJV Usage: discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, X utterly
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
מָסַס (ma.sas) — to melt. 1) to dissolve, melt 1a) (Qal) to waste away 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to melt, vanish, drop off, melt away 1b2) to faint, grow fearful (fig.) 1b3) wasted, worthless (participle) 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to melt
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · מָס · מַסָּה · תֶּמֶס · מאס
Soft | verb nif
to melt, to dissolve = process by which substances become soft, ◄ often as a result of a higher temperature
EXO 16:21 · JDG 15:14 · PSA 68:3 · PSA 97:5 · EZK 21:12 · MIC 1:4 · NAM 2:11
Afraid | verb nif
Collocation: לֵב מסס · לֵבָב מסס
to lose heart literally: (one's) heart melts; hence: = state in which humans lose all courage
JOS 2:11 · JOS 5:1 · JOS 7:5 · 2SA 17:10 · 2SA 17:10 · PSA 22:15 · ISA 13:7 · ISA 19:1
Afraid | verb hif, verb nif
Collocation: מסס לֵבָב
to make (someone's) heart melt literally: to make (someone's) heart melt; hence: = causative process by which humans cause other humans to lose all courage
Flow | verb nif
to flow literally: to melt; hence: = process by which liquids flow from an object as if the object itself is melting away
Non-Exist | verb qal
to waste away literally: to melt; hence: = process by which people or objects to vanish from existence
1 1SA 15:9 LXX ἐξουδενωμένον RSV NJPS NJB GNT ESV "worthless" REB "of no value" | MT NIV "weak"
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[מָסַס] vb. dissolve, melt, intr. Qal Inf. cstr. like the melting
Niph. melt (intr.)
most oft. fig. of heart = faint, grow fearful
Pt. = wasted, consumptive (?)
Hiph Pf. cause to melt (= intimidate)
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