Word

מָצָה

mâtsâh · H4680 · Hebrew · 7 occurrences

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Meanings

to squeeze, to wring, to drain

Causative process by which humans cause a container to be emptied of all liquids

Examples
Leviticus 1:15 ‘The priest shall bring it to the altar, and pinch off its head, and offer it up in smoke on the altar; and its blood is to be drained out on the side of the altar.
Leviticus 5:9 ‘He shall also sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the side of the altar, while the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar: it is a sin offering.
Judges 6:38 And it was so. When he got up early the next morning and wrung out the fleece, he wrung the dew from the fleece, a bowl full of water.

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

7 occurrences in 6 groups

Not stated: you (one person) 2
דָּםblood 1
מַיִםwater 1
שָׁאַרto remain 1
Not stated: they 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

טַלdew 1
שֶׁמֶרdregs 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

4 occurrences in 4 groups

אֵלto, toward+ יְסוֹדfoundation 1
מִןfrom+ גָּזַּהfleece 1
עַלon, upon, over, against+ קִירwall 1
לto/for+ הֶםthem 1

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 1 entry

Non-Contain002002001004: The word describes liquid being drained, wrung, or poured out rather than held, as when blood is drained out at the base of the altar or dew is wrung out of a fleece.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4680. matsah [מָצָה] verb drain, drain out (Late Hebrew id. press, or drain out; Aramaic…

H4680. matsah
[מָצָה] verb drain, drain out (Late Hebrew id. press, or drain out; Aramaic , מְצָא id.; Arabic II. drain to the last drop (Dozy); compare מָצַץ); —
Qal Perfect2feminine singular מָצִית Isa 51:17, וּמָצִית consecutive Eze 23:34 Imperfect3masculine singular with apocope וַיִמֶץ Jdg 6:38, Jdg 6:3masculine plural יִמְצוּ Psa 75:9; — drain, drain out, מִןהַֿנִּזָּה טַל וַיִמֶץ Jdg 6:38 and drained dew out of the fleece; so figurative, object קֻבַּעת bowl, goblet, of bewilderment from ׳י, Isa 51:17 ( + שׁתה; of personified Jerusalem), compare, object בּוֺס, Eze 23:24 (+ שׁתה); object שְׁמָרֶיהָ the dregs of it (namely בּוֺס) Psa 75:9 (subject the wicked).
Niph`al Perfect וְנִמְצָה consecutive Lev 1:15 and the blood (of the bird) shall be drained out; so Imperfect יִמָּצֵה Lev 5:9 (both
P); לָמוֺ יִמָּצוּ מָלֵא מֵי Psa 73:10 water of abundance is drained (i.e. drunk) by them (Gr Che Buhl read יִמְצוּ or יָמֹצוּ (מצץ) they drain).
I. מַצָּה see מצץ. II. מַצָּה see נצה.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Non-Contain7 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0