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To commit

מָסַרStrong’s H4560

masar (ma-sar)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Masar is the Hebrew word usually translated “were selected” and “offer”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“So there were delivered out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.”
Numbers 31:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. To set apart, deliver up, offer(Qal) to set apart · (Niphal) to be delivered over, be assigned to, be set apart
How it's translated
  • and they were selected 1
  • to offer 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 2

1 book in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מָסַר masar · to commit

1) to set apart, deliver up, offer 1a) (Qal) to set apart 1b) (Niphal) to be delivered over, be assigned to, be set apart

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

COMMIT, verb transitive

Literally, to send to or upon; to throw, put or lay upon. Hence,

  1. To give in trust; to put into the hands or power of another; to entrust; with to.“The things thou hast heard of me, commit to faithful men” 2 Timothy 2:2
  2. To put into any place for preservation; to deposit; as, to commit a passage in a book to memory; to commit the body to the grave.
  3. To put or sent to, for confinement; as, to commit an offender to prison.
  4. To do; to effect or perpetrate; as, to commit murder, treason, felony, or trespass.“Thou shalt not commit adultery” Exodus 20:14
All definitions
  1. To join or put together, for a contest; to match; followed by with; a latinism.
  2. To place in a state of hostility or incongruity.
  3. To expose or endanger by a preliminary step or decision which cannot be recalled; as, to commit the peace of a country by espousing the cause of a belligerent.
  4. To engage; to pledge; or to pledge by implication.
  5. To refer or entrust to a committee, or select number of persons, for their consideration and report; a term of legislation; as, the petition or the bill is committed.

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.