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Micah 1:4
“And the mountains shall be molten under him, and the valleys shall be cleft, as wax before the fire, and as the waters that are poured down a steep place.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
מָסַסmâçaç · maw-sas'
H4549 · Hebrew
H4549 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to liquefy; figuratively, to waste (with disease), to faint (with fatigue, fear or grief)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- discourage, faint, be loosed, melt (away), refuse, [idiom] utterly.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- נָמַ֤סּוּ — verb Niphal, sequential perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
- Usage
- Occurs 21 times in the Hebrew Bible.Exodus 16:21Deuteronomy 1:28Deuteronomy 20:8Joshua 2:11Joshua 5:1
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 מָסַס here.
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.