Parashat Masei

Masei – Journeys
Number 33:1 – 36:13

  • Ramses – Raamses or Rameses = “child of the sun”; departed 1st month on 15th day of the month, after the Passover;
  • Succoth – “booths”
  • Etham – “with them: their plowshare”; 3 day journey and pitched in Marah
  • Pi-hahiroth – “place where sedge grows”
  • Migdol – “tower”
  • Marah – “bitter”
  • Elim – “palms”; 12 springs; 70 date palms
  • Dophkah – “knocking”
  • Alush – “I will knead (bread)”
  • Rephidim – “rests” or “stays” or “resting places”
  • Sinai – Wilderness — “thorny”
  • Kibroth-hattaavah – “graves of lust”
  • Hazeroth – “settlement”
  • Rithmah – “heath”
  • Rimmon-perez – “pomegranate of the breach”
  • Libnah – “pavement”
  • Rissah – “ruin”
  • Kehelathah – “assembly”
  • Shepher – “beauty”
  • Haradah – “fear”
  • Makheloth – “place of assembly”
  • Tahath – “station”
  • Terah – “station”
  • Mithkah – “sweetness”
  • Hashmonah – “fatness”
  • Moseroth – Mosera or Moseroth = “bonds”
  • Bene-jaakan – “sons of twisting”
  • Hor-hagidgad – “cavern of Gidgad”
  • Jotbathah – Jotbath or Jotbathah = “pleasantness”
  • Abronah – Ebronah = “passage”
  • Ezion-geber – “backbone of a man”
  • Zin (Wilderness) – “flat”; which is Kadesh – “holy”
  • Mt. Hor – “mountain” / Edge of Edom – Aaron died here; 123 years old
  • Zalmonah – “shady”
  • Punon – “darkness”
  • Oboth – border of Moab – “waterskins”
  • Ijeabarim – “ruins of Abarim”
  • Dibon-gad – “wasting”
  • Almon-diblathaim – “concealing the two cakes”
  • Nebo “prophet” – Mountains of Abarim – “regions beyond”
  • Plains of Moab – “of his father”, by Jordan – “descender” near Jericho – “its moon”
  • Beth-jeshimoth – “house of the desolation” – unto Abel-shittim – “meadow of acacias”