Journey
מַסַּעStrong’s H4550massa (mas-sa)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Massa is the Hebrew word usually translated “journeyings their”, “settings out of” and “journeyings his”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;”
Meaning
- A pulling up (of stakes), breaking camp, setting out, journeypulling up, breaking camp · setting out · station, stage, journey
How it's translated
- to journeyings their 2
- journeyings their 2
- settings out of 2
- to journeyings his 1
- and for breaking 1
- for settings out their 1
- to settings out their 1
- settings out their 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Numbers 6
- Exodus 3
- Genesis 1
- Deuteronomy 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 17:1And all the congregation of the children of Israel journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, after their journeys, according to the commandment of the LORD, and pitched in Rephidim: and there was no water for the people to drink.
- Exodus 40:36And when the cloud was taken up from over the tabernacle, the children of Israel went onward in all their journeys:
- Exodus 40:38For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
- Numbers 10:2Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps.
- Numbers 10:6When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.
- Numbers 10:12And the children of Israel took their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud rested in the wilderness of Paran.
Hebrew dictionary
מַסַּע massa · journey
1) a pulling up (of stakes), breaking camp, setting out, journey 1a) pulling up, breaking camp 1b) setting out 1c) station, stage, journey
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “journey” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
JOURNEY, noun
jur'ny. [Latin diurnus, dies.]
- The travel of a day.
- Travel by land to any distance and for any time, indefinitely; as a journey from London to Paris, or to Rome; a journey to visit a brother; a week's journey; we made two journeys to Philadelphia.
- Passage form one place to another; as a long journey from the upper regions.
- It may sometimes include a passing by water.
All definitions and other forms of “journey”
JOURNEY, verb intransitive
jur'ny. To travel form place to place; to pass from home to a distance.
- “Abram journeyed, going on still towards the south” Genesis 12:9
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.