Quarry
מַסָּעStrong’s H4551massa (mas-sa)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Massa is the Hebrew word usually translated “quarry” and “dart”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.”
Meaning
- Quarry, quarrying, breaking out (of stones)
- Missile, dart
How it's translated
- quarry 1
- a dart 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
- Job 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַסָּע massa · quarry
quarry, quarrying, breaking out (of stones)
מַסָּע massa · missile
missile, dart
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “quarry” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
QUAR'RY, noun
- A square; as a quarry of glass. [Not in use.]
- An arrow with a square head. [See Quarrel.
- In falconry, the game which a hawk is pursuing or has killed. [Perhaps from Latin quaero.]
- Among hunters, a part of the entrails of the beast taken, given to the hounds.
All definitions and other forms of “quarry”
QUAR'RY, noun
[I know not whether the original sense of this word was a pit or mine, from digging, or whether the sense was a place for squaring stone. Latin curro. If the sense was a pit, it may be referred to the Heb.]
- A place, cavern or pit where stones are dug from the earth, or separated from a large mass of rocks.
- In Paris, the quarries are a vast cavern under the city, several miles in extent.
QUAR'RY, verb intransitive
To prey upon, as a vulture or harpy. [A low word and not much used.]
QUAR'RY, verb transitive
To dig or take from a quarry; as, to quarry marble.
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.