Topic
Massa
5 passages cited, from 4 classic reference works.
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The verses
The passages the works cite, those cited by more of them first.
- Genesis 25:14Easton · ISBE · Nave Son of Ishmael
And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,
- 1 Chronicles 1:30Smith · ISBE · Nave Son of Ishmael
Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,
- Genesis 26:14Smith
For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him.
- Proverbs 30:1–33ISBE
The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal, Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. Who…
- Proverbs 31:1–31ISBE
The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him. What, my son? and what, the son of my womb? and what, the son of my vows? Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is…
In the reference works
Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897) · 1 references
A lifting up, gift, one of the sons of Ishmael, the founder of an Arabian tribe (Gen. 25:14); a nomad tribe inhabiting the Arabian desert toward Babylonia.
Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884) · 2 references
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915) · 4 references
mas'-a (massa', "burden"): Descendant of Abraham through Ishmael (Ge 25:14; 1Ch 1:30). His people may be the Masani of Ptolemy, having Eastern Arabia near Babylon as their habitat. The marginal reading of the heading to Pr 31 mentions Lemuel as king of Massa. If that reading is accepted, it would seem that a tribe and probably a place were named from Ishmael's descendant. The reading is doubtful, however, for where the phrase recurs in Pr 30 (Revised Version (British and American)) it appears to be a gloss.
In the topical indexes
Texts: Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897); Smith's Bible Dictionary (1884); International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (1915); Nave's Topical Bible (1896), from the CrossWire SWORD modules (public domain). Verse references were parsed from the works' own markup and checked against the KJV verse list.