STRONGS NUMBER H4551


Word Summary
macca': a quarry or quarrying
Original Word: מַסָּע
Transliteration: macca'
Phonetic Spelling: (mas-saw')
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: a quarry or quarrying
Meaning: a quarry or quarrying
Strong's Concordance
before it was brought, dart

From naca' in the sense of projecting; a missile (spear or arrow); also a quarry (whence stones are, as it were, ejected) -- before it was brought, dart.

see HEBREW naca'

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H4551. macca

' I. מַסֶּעnoun [masculine] quarry or quarrying; — only absolute as adverb accusative, מַסָּע שְׁלֵמָה אֶבֶן1 Kings 6:7 stone perfect (at the) quarry (or at quarrying, i.e. when it was quarried; compare Benz; text dubious).

II. נסע‎ (√ of following; possibly Arabic throw (puncture, wound, etc.), Kam Frey, so Buhl13).

II. מַסָּעmissile, dart; — only absolute Job 41:18 (+ שִׁרְיָה חֲנִית,‎).