MASIAS.One of Solomons servants (1Es_5:34); is absent from the parallel list in Ezra.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
ma-sı̄?as (Codex Alexandrinus, Μασίας, Ması́as; Codex Vaticanus, Μεισαίας, Meisaı́as): The head of one of the families of Solomon's servants (1 Esdras 5:34); it has no equivalent in the parallel Ezr_2:55 ff; the Revised Version margin ?Missaias.?
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
Masias
(Μασίας v. . Μισαίας), one of the servants of Solomon whose descendants returned with Zorobbabel from Babylon (1Es_5:34). Nothing corresponding to the name is found in the Heb. text (Ezra 5:55 sq.).
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.