Massa @ a lifting up, gift, one of the sons of Ishmael, the founder of an Arabian tribe Genesis:25:14); a nomad tribe inhabiting the Arabian desert toward Babylonia.
Massah @ trial, temptation, a name given to the place where the Israelites, by their murmuring for want of water, provoked Jehovah to anger against them. It is also called Meribah Exodus:17:7; Deuteronomy:6:16; Psalms:95:8-9; Hebrews:3:8).