Strong’s H4856 · Hebrew

מַשֹּׂא
massôʼ
mas-so'

Definition

partiality (as a lifting up)

Etymology

from H5375 (נָשָׂא);

Where the KJV renders it

  • respect

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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