# מָסַס (masas)

Israeli respelling: ma-sas. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4549. 20 Old Testament occurrences.

to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)

King James renderings: discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, [idiom] utterly.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/masas-h4549

## Occurrences

- [Exodus 16:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/16/21) — And they gathered it every morning, every man according to his eating: and when the sun waxed hot, it melted.
- [Deuteronomy 1:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/1/28) — Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and…
- [Deuteronomy 20:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/20/8) — And the officers shall speak further unto the people, and they shall say, What man is there that is fearful and fainthearted? let him go an…
- [Joshua 2:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/2/11) — And as soon as we had heard these things, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more courage in any man, because of you: for th…
- [Joshua 5:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/5/1) — And it came to pass, when all the kings of the Amorites, which were on the side of Jordan westward, and all the kings of the Canaanites, wh…
- [Joshua 7:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/joshua/7/5) — And 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 t…
- [Judges 15:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/judges/15/14) — And when he came unto Lehi, the Philistines shouted against him: and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and the cords that were…
- [1 Samuel 15:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-samuel/15/9) — But 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,…
- [2 Samuel 17:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-samuel/17/10) — And he also that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, shall utterly melt: for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty…
- [Psalms 22:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/22/14) — I 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 68:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/68/2) — As smoke is driven away, so drive them away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
- [Psalms 97:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/97/5) — The hills melted like wax at the presence of the LORD, at the presence of the Lord of the whole earth.
- [Psalms 112:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/psalms/112/10) — The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
- [Isaiah 10:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/10/18) — And shall consume the glory of his forest, and of his fruitful field, both soul and body: and they shall be as when a standard-bearer faint…
- [Isaiah 13:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/13/7) — Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:
- [Isaiah 19:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/19/1) — The burden of Egypt. Behold, the LORD rideth upon a swift cloud, and shall come into Egypt: and the idols of Egypt shall be moved at his pr…
- [Isaiah 34:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/34/3) — Their slain also shall be cast out, and their stink shall come up out of their carcases, and the mountains shall be melted with their blood.
- [Ezekiel 21:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/21/7) — And it shall be, when they say unto thee, Wherefore sighest thou? that thou shalt answer, For the tidings; because it cometh: and every hea…
- [Micah 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/micah/1/4) — And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down…
- [Nahum 2:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nahum/2/10) — She is empty, and void, and waste: and the heart melteth, and the knees smite together, and much pain is in all loins, and the faces of the…