A lifting up, gift, one of the sons of Ishmael, the founder of an Arabian tribe (Gen. 25:14); a nomad tribe inhabiting the Arabian desert toward Babylonia.
Source:Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)Public domain
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Massa
Name meaning: a burden; prophecy (Hitchcock)
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Also in Smith's Bible Dictionary (1863)
(burden), a son of Ishmael. (Genesis 26:14; 1 Chronicles 1:30) His descendants were not improbably the Masani, placed by Ptolemy in the east of Arabia, near the borders of Babylonia.
Source: Smith’s Bible Dictionary (1863) · Public domain
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