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Deuteronomy 7:19

“The great temptations which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the stretched out arm, whereby the Lord thy God brought thee out: so shall the Lord thy God do unto all the people of whom thou art afraid.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

מַסָּהmaççâh · mas-saw'
H4531 · Hebrew

Definition: a testing, of men (judicial) or of God (querulous)
Derivation: from H5254 (נָסָה);
KJV renderings: temptation, trial.
Grammar: הַ — particle (definite article)
מַּסֹּ֨ת — common noun, feminine, plural, absolute
Code HTd/Ncfpa
Usage: Occurs 5 times in the Hebrew Bible.Deuteronomy 4:34 Deuteronomy 29:2 Job 9:23 Psalms 95:8

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מַסָּה here.

Verse 18 Verse 20

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.