A portion of food given to a guest (Genesis 43:34; 2 Samuel 11:8). 1. (n.) Mass; church service.

2. (n.) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.

3. (n.) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.

4. (n.) A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.

5. (n.) The milk given by a cow at one milking.

6. (n.) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.

7. (v. i.) To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.

8. (v. t.) To supply with a mess.

MESS

mes (mas'eth): Any dish of food sent (Latin missum; French messe) to the table. It occurs in the Old Testament in Genesis 43:34 (twice); 2 Samuel 11:8 English Versions of the Bible, and in the New Testament in Hebrews 12:16, translating brosis.

4864. maseth -- an uprising, utterance, burden, portion
... tribute (1). burden, collection, sign of fire, great flame, gift, lifting
up, mess, oblation,. From nasa'; properly, (abstractly) a ...
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The Common Conception among the Dregs of Darwinian Culture is that ...
... humorous and energetic; your Colonel, of course, must be even more humorous and
yet more energetic " No one ever says, in reporting a mess-room conversation ...
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List of Authorities
... Molitor: Philosophie der Geschichte. Moscovitor: Het NT en de Talmud. M?�ller: Mess.
Erwart. d. Jud. ... bei d. Juden. Neumann: Gesch. d. Mess. Weissag. im AT. ...
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"Am Ia Sea, or a Whale?"
... See, my mess-mates, the way I shall try to steer; but if the heavenly wind blows
me out of my course, don't be surprised if I tack about, and go nobody knows ...
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And Judas Iscariot
... Coming in from the hunt one day, weary with his exertions, he detects the savory
smell of the mess of pottage, and his crafty brother says, "I will give you ...
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Jacob and Esau
... Esau sold it himself; he sold it for a mess of pottage. ... Did you not take the mess
of red pottage of your own voluntary will, in lieu of the birthright? ...
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One Way to Help Boys
... He is not evolved; and, unless he is taken in hand by somebody who cares for him
and who understands him, he will be very apt to make a mess of his life"not ...
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The victory of Faith.
... Esau came from the hunting-field worn and hungry; the only means of procuring the
tempting mess of his brother's pottage was the sacrifice of his father's ...
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Adonijah
... The luxury-loving Isaac, who must have his savoury food, just as his son, Esau,
who would sell his birthright for a mess of pottage, Rebekah, who, like her ...
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Every Believer's Birthright.
... Esau's eyes were ultimately opened to his folly in parting with his birthright for
"one mess of meat," and he then desired to inherit the blessing, seeking it ...
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Celts and Celtophiles
... When a wealthy nation like the English discovers the perfectly patent fact that
it is making a ludicrous mess of the government of a poorer nation like the ...
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Mess (3 Occurrences)
... 2. (n.) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person
or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a ...
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Mesopota'mia (7 Occurrences)
Mesopota'mia. Mesopotamia, Mesopota'mia. Mess . Multi-Version Concordance ... (See
RSV). Mesopotamia, Mesopota'mia. Mess . Reference Bible.
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Kid (42 Occurrences)
... 4. (n.) Gloves made of kid. 5. (n.) A small wooden mess tub; -- a name
given by sailors to one in which they receive their food. ...
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Uri'ah (32 Occurrences)
... 11:8 And David said to Uriah: 'Go down to thy house, and wash thy feet.' And Uriah
departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess of food from ...
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Mash (2 Occurrences)
... for making the wort. 3. (n.) A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to
animals. 4. (n.) A mess; trouble. 5. (vt) To convert into ...
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Morsel (14 Occurrences)
... mor'-sel (brosis): Found only in Hebrews 12:16 the King James Version, "For one
morsel of meat (the Revised Version (British and American) "mess of meat") sold ...
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Messes (1 Occurrence)
... Messes (1 Occurrence). Genesis 43:34 And he took and sent messes unto them from
before him: but Benjamin's mess was five times so much as any of theirs. ...
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Pittance (1 Occurrence)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A small allowance or wage; an allowance of food
bestowed in charity; a mess of victuals; hence, a small charity gift; a dole. ...
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Fornication (52 Occurrences)
... Hebrews 12:16 lest 'there be' any fornication, or profane person, as Esau,
who for one mess of meat sold his own birthright. (ASV). ...
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Message (222 Occurrences)

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