Bible word study

Macca (Strong’s H4550): Meaning in the Bible

Macca (מַסַּע) is the Hebrew word numbered H4550 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as a departure (from striking the tents), i.e. march (not necessarily a single day's travel); by implication, a station (or point of departure). In the King James Bible it is translated journey(-ing)..

• Original wordמַסַּע
• Transliterationmaççaʻ
• Pronunciationmas-sah'
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH4550
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H5265;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Macca appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Macca (H4550) stands behind 12 English renderings in 11 verses across 4 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Numbers (7), Exodus (3), Genesis (1).

How the King James Bible renders Macca, by count

• journeys9 of 12 (75 percent)
• journey1 of 12 (8 percent)
• journeying1 of 12 (8 percent)
• journeyings1 of 12 (8 percent)

Three places to read Macca

• Genesis 13:3 And he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Bethel and Hai;
• Exodus 40:38 For the cloud of the LORD was upon the tabernacle by day, and fire was on it by night, in the sight of all the house of Israel, throughout all their journeys.
• Numbers 10:28 Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their armies, when they set forward.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Macca in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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