מַס
mas
“taskworker”
Definition
properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor
or מִס; from H4549 (מָסַס);
- gang or body of forced labourers, task-workers, labour band or gang, forced service, task-work, serfdom, tributary, tribute, levy, taskmasters, discomfited 1a) labour-band, labour-gang, slave gang 1b) gang-overseers 1c) forced service, serfdom, tribute, enforced payment
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
מַס appears 20 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Then King Rehoboam sent out Adoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but all Israel stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.
Then King Rehoboam sent out Hadoram, who was in charge of the forced labor, but the Israelites stoned him to death. And King Rehoboam mounted his chariot in haste and escaped to Jerusalem.
Now King Xerxes imposed tribute throughout the land, even to its farthest shores.
When Israel became stronger, they pressed the Canaanites into forced labor, but they never drove them out completely.
But they did not drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer. So the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites to this day, but they are forced laborers.
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