Lexicon / H4522
מַס
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  • taskworker
  • body of forced labourers
  • task-workers
  • labour-band
  • gang
  • forced service

STEPBible TBESH

Glosses: taskworker

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

BDB (Brown-Driver-Briggs)

Glosses: body of forced labourers; task-workers; labour-band; gang; forced service

מַס n.m coll body of forced labourers task-workers labour-band gang forced service task-work serfdom . usu. or, also (late).