- Original: מס מס - Transliteration: Mac - Phonetic: mas - Definition: 1. gang or body of forced labourers, task-workers, labour band or gang, forced service, task-work, serfdom, tributary, tribute, levy, taskmasters, discomfited a. labour-band, labour-gang, slave gang b. gang-overseers c. forced service, serfdom, tribute, enforced payment - Origin: from H4549 - TWOT entry: 1218 - Part(s) of speech: Noun Masculine - Strong's: From H4549 ; properly a burden (as causing to faint) that is a tax in the form of forced labor: - discomfited levy task [-master] tribute (-tary). Total KJV Occurrences: 23 • bondservice, 1 1 Kings 9:21 • discomfited, 1 Isaiah 31:8 • levy, 4 1 Kings 5:13(2); 1 Kings 5:14; 1 Kings 9:15 • taskmasters, 1 Exodus 1:11 • tributaries, 4 Deuteronomy 20:11; Judges 1:30; Judges 1:33; Judges 1:35 • tributary, 1 Lamentations 1:1 • tribute, 11 Genesis 49:15; Joshua 16:10; Joshua 17:13; Judges 1:28; 2 Samuel 20:24; 1 Kings 4:6; 1 Kings 12:18; 2 Chronicles 8:8; 2 Chronicles 10:18; Esther 10:1; Proverbs 12:24