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Burden

מַעֲמָסָהStrong’s H4614

maamasah (ma-a-ma-sah)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Maamasah is the Hebrew word usually translated “burden”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“And in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people: all that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces, though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it.”
Zechariah 12:3 KJV
Meaning
  1. Load, burden
How it's translated
  • burden 1

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

Where it's used most
  • Zechariah 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew dictionary

    מַעֲמָסָה maamasah · burden

    load, burden

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

    Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

    BURD'EN, noun

    burd'n; written also burthen. [Latin fero, or porto.]

    1. That which is borne or carried; a load.
    2. That which is borne with labor or difficulty; that which is grievous, wearisome or oppressive.
    3. A birth.
    4. The verse repeated in a song, or the return of the theme at the end of each verse; the chorus; so called from the application of this word to the drone or base, and the pipe or string which plays it, in an instrument.
    All definitions and other forms of “burden”
    1. In common language, that which is often repeated; a subject on which one dwells.
    2. A fixed quantity of certain commodities; as a burden of gad steel, 120 pounds.
    3. The contents of a ship; the quantity or number of tons, a vessel will carry; as a ship of a hundred tons burden
    4. A club. [Not in use.]

    BURD'EN, verb transitive

    burd'n. To load; to lay on a heavy load; to incumber with weight. Hence,

    1. To oppress with any thing grievous; as, to burden a nation with taxes.
    2. To surcharge; as, to burden the memory.

    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.