Maççâʻ — H4551

Definition

masculine noun

a missile (spear or arrow); also a quarry (whence stones are, as it were, ejected)

1. quarry, quarrying, breaking out (of stones)
2. missile, dart

Usually translated as

before it was brought, dart

Origin

from H5265 in the sense of projecting

• Derived from Nâçaʻ (H5265)

Occurrences

Maççâʻ occurs 2 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: 1 Kings (1), Job (1)

• 1 Kings 6:7 — And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready before it was brought (מַסָּ֖ע) thither: so that there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.
• Job 41:26 — The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart (מַסָּ֣ע), nor the habergeon.