מַסַּע
mas.sa
“journey”
Definition
a departure (from striking the tents), i.e. march (not necessarily a single day's travel); by implication, a station (or point of departure)
from H5265 (נָסַע);
- a pulling up (of stakes), breaking camp, setting out, journey 1a) pulling up, breaking camp 1b) setting out 1c) station, stage, journey
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
מַסַּע appears 11 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Then the LORD said to me, “Get up. Continue your journey ahead of the people, that they may enter and possess the land that I swore to their fathers to give them.”
Whenever the cloud was lifted from above the tabernacle, the Israelites would set out through all the stages of their journey.
From the Negev he journeyed from place to place toward Bethel, until he came to the place between Bethel and Ai where his tent had formerly been pitched,
When you sound the short blasts a second time, the camps that lie on the south side are to set out. The blasts are to signal them to set out.
This was the order of march for the Israelite divisions as they set out.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.