masas (to melt) · Rightly

Meaning

To dissolve, melt(Qal) to waste away · (Niphal) · (Hiphil) to cause to melt

How it's translated

and it melted 4
it will melt 2
they have made melt 1
it will be melted 1
and they dropped off 1
and worthless 1
surely 1
he will melt 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Psalms 4
Isaiah 4
Joshua 3
Deuteronomy 2
Exodus 1
Judges 1

11 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Deuteronomy 1:28Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.
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 2:11And 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 the LORD your God, he is God in heaven above, and in earth beneath.
Joshua 5:1And 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, which were by the sea, heard that the LORD had dried up the waters of Jordan from before the children of Israel, until we were passed over, that their heart melted, neither was there spirit in them any more, because of the children of Israel.
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.
Judges 15:14And 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 upon his arms became as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off his hands.

All 20 verses, by book

Exodus 1: 16:21
Deuteronomy 2: 1:28 20:8
Joshua 3: 2:11 5:1 7:5
Judges 1: 15:14
1 Samuel 1: 15:9
2 Samuel 1: 17:10
Psalms 4: 22:14 68:2 97:5 112:10
Isaiah 4: 10:18 13:7 19:1 34:3
Ezekiel 1: 21:7
Micah 1: 1:4
Nahum 1: 2:10

Hebrew dictionary

מָסַס masas · to melt

1) to dissolve, melt 1a) (Qal) to waste away 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to melt, vanish, drop off, melt away 1b2) to faint, grow fearful (fig.) 1b3) wasted, worthless (participle) 1c) (Hiphil) to cause to melt

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “melt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

MELT, verb transitive

[Eng.smelt, smalt. We have in these words decisive evidence that s, in smelten, etc. is a prefix. melt in English, is regular, forming melted for its past tense and passive participle. The old participle molten, is used only as an adjective.]

To dissolve; to make liquid; to liquefy; to reduce from a solid to a liquid or flowing state by heat; as, to melt wax, tallow or lead; to melt ice or snow.
To dissolve; to reduce to first principles.
To soften to love or tenderness.
To waste away; to dissipate.

All definitions and other forms of “melt”

To dishearten. Joshua 14:8

MELT, verb intransitive

To become liquid; to dissolve; to be changed from a fixed or solid to a flowing state.

To be softened to love, pity, tenderness or sympathy; to become tender, mild or gentle.
To be dissolved; to lose substance.
To be subdued by affliction; to sink into weakness.“My soul melteth for heaviness--strengthen thou me” Psalms 119:28
To faint; to be discouraged or disheartened.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.