Bible Person
Meaning: a burden; prophecy · Male · 2 cross references
Massa is one of Ishmael's sons and the ancestral name behind an Arabian tribe. He belongs to the non-Israelite branch of Abraham's family whose descendants remain part of the Bible's remembered human geography. First appears in Gen 25:14.1
AI summary: Massa matters because his cross references place him within Ishmael's line, reminding readers that Abraham's wider family extends well beyond the covenant line of Isaac. The entry contributes to the Bible's sustained interest in how surrounding tribes and regions relate back to shared ancestral roots. Taken together, the material presents Massa as an Ishmaelite ancestor whose name connects biblical genealogy with Arabia's tribal world.1
Central Figure
Massa
Meaning: a burden; prophecy
A lifting up, gift, one of the sons of Ishmael, the founder of an Arabian tribe (Gen.
Siblings
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. 3
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
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.