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mas מַס ‘taskworker’ (Hebrew)

Etymology?: from māsas מָסַס ‘to melt’
Roots: מסס

mas n, m
1) gang or body of forced labourers, task-workers, labour band or gang, forced service, task-work, serfdom, tributary, tribute, levy, taskmasters, discomfited
 1a) labour-band, labour-gang, slave gang
 1b) gang-overseers
 1c) forced service, serfdom, tribute, enforced payment

Mentioned in Genesis 49:15 Exodus 1:11 Deuteronomy 20:11 Joshua 16:10, 17:13 Judges 1:35, 1:33, 1:28, 1:30 2 Samuel 20:24 1 Kings 12:18, 4:6, 5:28, 9:21, 5:27, 9:15 Isaiah 31:8 Proverbs 12:24 Lamentations 1:1 Esther 10:1 2 Chronicles 10:18, 8:8

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