1) 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
STRONG'S WORD STUDY
H4522 — מַס
mas · taskworker · Hebrew/Aramaic
22 tagged verse occurrences
Genesis 49:15 · לְמַס־He saw a resting place, that it was good, the land, that it was pleasant. He bows his shoulder to the burden, and becomes a servant doing forced labor.Exodus 1:11 · מִסִּ֔יםTherefore they set taskmasters over them to afflict them with their burdens. They built storage cities for Pharaoh: Pithom and Raamses.Deuteronomy 20:11 · לָמַ֖סIt shall be, if it makes you answer of peace, and opens to you, then it shall be, that all the people who are found therein shall become tributary to you, and shall serve you.Joshua 16:10 · לְמַס־They didn’t drive out the Canaanites who lived in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwell in the midst of Ephraim to this day, and have become servants to do forced labor.Joshua 17:13 · לָמַ֑סIt happened, when the children of Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and didn’t utterly drive them out.Judges 1:28 · לָמַ֑סIt happened, when Israel had grown strong, that they put the Canaanites to forced labor, and did not utterly drive them out.Judges 1:30 · לָמַֽס׃ סZebulun didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Kitron, nor the inhabitants of Nahalol; but the Canaanites lived among them, and became subject to forced labor.Judges 1:33 · לָמַֽס׃ סNaphtali didn’t drive out the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh, nor the inhabitants of Beth Anath; but he lived among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: nevertheless the inhabitants of Beth Shemesh and of Beth Anath became subject to forced labor.Judges 1:35 · לָמַֽס׃but the Amorites would dwell in Mount Heres, in Aijalon, and in Shaalbim: yet the hand of the house of Joseph prevailed, so that they became subject to forced labor.2 Samuel 20:24 · הַמַּ֑סand Adoram was over the men subject to forced labor; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was the recorder;1 Kings 4:6 · הַמַּֽס׃ סand Ahishar was over the household; and Adoniram the son of Abda was over the men subject to forced labor.1 Kings 5:13 · מַ֖ס · הַמַּ֔סKing Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.1 Kings 5:14 · הַמַּֽס׃ סHe sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor.1 Kings 9:15 · הַמַּ֜סThis is the reason of the levy which king Solomon raised, to build the house of Yahweh, and his own house, and Millo, and the wall of Jerusalem, and Hazor, and Megiddo, and Gezer.1 Kings 9:21 · לְמַס־their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them Solomon raised a levy of bondservants to this day.1 Kings 12:18 · הַמַּ֔סThen king Rehoboam sent Adoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and all Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get him up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.2 Chronicles 8:8 · לְמַ֔סof their children who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel didn’t consume, of them Solomon conscripted forced labor to this day.2 Chronicles 10:18 · הַמַּ֔סThen king Rehoboam sent Hadoram, who was over the men subject to forced labor; and the children of Israel stoned him to death with stones. King Rehoboam made speed to get himself up to his chariot, to flee to Jerusalem.Esther 10:1 · מַ֛סKing Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and on the islands of the sea.Proverbs 12:24 · לָמַֽס׃The hands of the diligent ones shall rule, but laziness ends in slave labor.Isaiah 31:8 · לָמַ֥ס“The Assyrian will fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of mankind, shall devour him. He will flee from the sword, and his young men will become subject to forced labor.Lamentations 1:1 · לָמַֽס׃ סHow the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become tributary!