Strong H4522מַס
taskworker
- Transliteration
- mas mis
- Pronunciation
- {mas} mees
- Morphology
- Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
Definition
From H4549; properly a burden (as causing to {faint }) that {is} a tax in the form of forced labor: - {discomfited} {levy} task {[-master]} tribute (-tary).
Detailed definition
STEP sense: taskworker
Exact lexical definition: body of forced labourers
Part of speech: noun
BDB context: מַס n.m . usu. coll . body of forced labourers , task-workers , labour-band or gang , also (late) forced service , task-work , serfdom
In the Bible
Strong H4522 appears in 22 verses of the KJV.
Translated in the KJV by
- tribute12
- become4
- levy3
- discomfit1
- taskmasters1
- tributaries1
First verses
- Genesis 49:15And he saw that rest was good, and the land that it was pleasant; and bowed his shoulder to bear, and became a servant unto tribute.
- Exodus 1:11Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.
- Deuteronomy 20:11And it shall be, if it make thee answer of peace, and open unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve thee.
- Joshua 16:10And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.
- Joshua 17:13Yet it came to pass, when the children of Israel were waxen strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute; but did not utterly drive them out.
- Judges 1:28And it came to pass, when Israel was strong, that they put the Canaanites to tribute, and did not utterly drive them out.
- Judges 1:30Neither did Zebulun drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites dwelt among them, and became tributaries.
- Judges 1:33Neither did Naphtali drive out the inhabitants of Beth–shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth–anath; but he dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth–shemesh and of Beth–anath became tributaries unto them.
- Judges 1:35But the Amorites would dwell in mount Heres in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became tributaries.
- 2 Samuel 20:24And Adoram was over the tribute: and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder:
- 1 Kings 4:6And Ahishar was over the household: and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the tribute.
- 1 Kings 5:13And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
- 1 Kings 5:14And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses: a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home: and Adoniram was over the levy.
- 1 Kings 9:15And this is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised; for to build the house of the Lord, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.
- 1 Kings 9:21Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
- 1 Kings 12:18Then king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the tribute; and all Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. Therefore king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
- 2 Chronicles 8:8But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.
- 2 Chronicles 10:18Then king Rehoboam sent Hadoram that was over the tribute; and the children of Israel stoned him with stones, that he died. But king Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.
- Esther 10:1And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.
- Proverbs 12:24The hand of the diligent shall bear rule: but the slothful shall be under tribute.