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H4551 מַסָּע (maççâʻ) mas-saw'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

from 5265 in the sense of projecting; a missile (spear or arrow); also a quarry (whence stones are, as it were, ejected)

KJV Usage: before it was brought, dart

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

מַסָּע (mas.sa) — quarry. quarry, quarrying, breaking out (of stones)

מַסָּע (mas.sa) — missile. missile, dart

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

noun m · נסע

quarry a large pit from which stones are cut

1KI 6:7

noun m

Weapons

dart exact meaning uncertain; probably = a small hand-held weapon, sharpened to a point on one end, and thrown

JOB 41:18

1 JOB 41:18 Tg translates: "and the sling that hurls stone". Other versions, LXX, Sym, Pesh, Jerome, take מַסָּע to be a modifier of חֲנִית.

P.J. Williams

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

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

מַסָּע missile, dart;—only abs. Jb 41:18 ref

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