Definition

properly, a burden (as causing to faint), i.e. a tax in the form of forced labor

Etymology

or מִס; from H4549 (מָסַס);

Where the KJV renders it

• discomfited
• levy
• task(-master)
• tribute(-tary)

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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