Bible Location
Meaning: temptation · 4 cross references · Modern-day map available
Massah is the name given to the wilderness place of testing where Israel quarreled over water. It is important because the event became a lasting warning against unbelief and provocation. First appears in Exod 17:7.1
AI summary: Massah is one of the biblical names that carries its lesson in the name itself. The people's testing of God there turns the place into a permanent reminder of distrust at the moment of need, and later law and blessing texts call the event back to mind as a moral warning. Because Massah overlaps with Meribah tradition, it stands within a cluster of remembered failure in the wilderness. The cross references present Massah as a name of testing, complaint, and enduring admonition.1
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Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.