H4549 מָסַס
Strong's Hebrew Concordance · 21 KJV occurrences
מָסַס
mâçaç · maw-sas'
Definition
to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
KJV Renderings
discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, [idiom] utterly.
Derivation / Etymology
a primitive root;
Sample KJV Verses (8 of 21)
- Exodus 16:21And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
- Deuteronomy 20:8And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go and return unto his house, lest his brethren’s heart faint as well as his heart.
- Joshua 7:5And the men of Ai smote of them about thirty and six men: for they chased them from before the gate even unto Shebarim, and smote them in the going down: wherefore the hearts of the people melted, and became as water.
- 1 Samuel 15:9But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
- Psalms 22:14I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
- Psalms 112:10The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
- Isaiah 13:7Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
- Ezekiel 21:7And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water: behold, it cometh, and shall be brought to pass, saith the Lord GOD.