Strong H45312 sensesמַסָּה

trial · despair

Transliteration
massâh
Pronunciation
mas-saw'

The 2 senses of Strong H4531

The lexicon tells 2 senses apart under this number. In the Bible, each word leads to the one it has in its verse. Strong H4531 appears in 5 verses of the KJV, all senses together.

  1. trialH4531Btesting, proving, trial3 verses · Deuteronomy
  2. despairH4531A1 verse · Job

General definition

From H5254; a {testing} of men (judicial) or of God (querulous): - {temptation} trial.

In the Bible

Translated in the KJV by

  • temptation4
  • trial1

First verses

  1. Deuteronomy 4:34
    Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?
  2. Deuteronomy 7:19
    The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.
  3. Deuteronomy 29:3
    The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:
  4. Job 9:23
    If the scourge slay suddenly, he will laugh at the trial of the innocent.
  5. Psalms 95:8
    Harden not your heart, as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wilderness: