Hebrew word · H4271

מַחְסֵיָה

machseyah

Mahseiah

Appears 2 times in 2 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, first mentioned at Jer.32.12;

father of: Neriah (H5374)

§ Maaseiah = "Jehovah is a shelter"

1) a priest and ancestor of Baruch, the friend and scribe of Jeremiah

2) ancestor of Seraiah who carried Jeremiah's book to Babylon

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Jeremiah · 2

  1. Jeremiah 32:12 מַחְסֵיָה֒ Mahseiah

    and I gave this deed to Baruch son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, in the sight of my cousin Hanamel and the witnesses who were signing the purchase agreement and all the Jews sitting in the courtyard of the guard.

  2. Jeremiah 51:59 מַחְסֵיָה֒ Mahseiah

    This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.