4852. Mesha

Lexicon

Mesha: Mesha

Original Word: מֵשָׁא
Part of Speech: Proper Name Location
Transliteration: Mesha'
Pronunciation: MAY-shah
Phonetic Spelling: (may-shaw')
KJV: Mesha
NASB: Mesha
Word Origin: [of foreign derivation]

1. Mesha, a place in Arabia

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

Mesha

Of foreign derivation; Mesha, a place in Arabia -- Mesha.

NAS Exhaustive Concordance

Word Origin
of foreign origin
Definition
one extremity of the territory of the Joktanites
NASB Translation
Mesha (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs

מֵשָׁא proper name, of a location limiting territory of Joktanites, Genesis 10:30; Dl^{Par 243} identifies with Assyrian Maš (Syro-Arabic desert); > district Mesene, on Persian Gulf, Thes⁸²³ (compare Di); ᵐ5 Μασση(ε), whence Di I. מַשָּׂא q. v. (after Hal^{Mél.91 f.})

[מַשְׂאָב] see שׂאב. מְשׁאָה see מְשׂוֺאָה.

מַשָּׁאוֺן, מַשֻּׁאוֺת see II. נשׁא.

Forms and Transliterations

מִמֵּשָׁ֑א ממשא mim·mê·šā mimeSha mimmêšā

Englishman's Concordance

Genesis 10:30
HEB: וַֽיְהִ֥י מוֹשָׁבָ֖ם מִמֵּשָׁ֑א בֹּאֲכָ֥ה סְפָ֖רָה
NAS: extended from Mesha as you go
KJV: And their dwelling was from Mesha, as thou goest
INT: extended now their settlement Mesha go Sephar

1 Occurrence

Strong's Hebrew 4852
1 Occurrence

mim·mê·šā — 1 Occ.