Smoke
מַשָּׂאָהStrong’s H4858massaah (mas-sa-ah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Massaah is the Hebrew word usually translated “lifting up”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Behold, the name of the LORD cometh from far, burning with his anger, and the burden thereof is heavy: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue as a devouring fire:”
Meaning
- The uplifted, uplifting
How it's translated
- lifting up 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
מַשָּׂאָה massaah · smoke
the uplifted, uplifting
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “smoke” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SMOKE, noun
- The exhalation, visble vapor or substance that escapes or is expelled in combustion from the substance burning.
- Vapor; water exhalations.
All definitions and other forms of “smoke”
SMOKE, verb intransitive
- To emit smoke; to throw off volatile matter in the form of vapor or exhalation.
- To burn; to be kindled; to rage; in Scripture. Deuteronomy 29:20“The anger of the Lord and his jealousy snall smoke against that man” Deuteronomy 29:20
- To raise a dust or smoke by rapid motion.
- To smell or hunt out; to suspect.
- To use tobacco in a pipe or cigar, by kindling the tobacco, drawing the smoke into the mouth and puffing it out.
- TO suffer; to be punished.
SMOKE, verb transitive
- To apply smoke to; to hang in smoke; to scent, medicate or dry by smoke; as, to smoke infected clothing; to smoke beef or hams for preservation.
- To smell out; to find out.
- TO sneer at; to ridicule to the face.
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.