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מַצָּה

matstsâh · H4682 · Hebrew · 53 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. unleavened bread

    Thin cracker-like bread made without yeast

    Examples

    Genesis 19:3 Yet he strongly urged them, so they turned aside to him and entered his house; and he prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

    Exodus 12:8 ‘They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

    Exodus 12:15 ‘For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove dough with yeast from your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.

How it’s used In 7 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

2 occurrences in 2 groups

Named alongside itApposition

4 occurrences in 3 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

3 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

14 occurrences in 4 groups

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

27 occurrences in 6 groups

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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Near synonyms 2 words
חַלָּה challâh · H2471 · cake
Both words denote types of baked bread or cake that could substitute in many culinary and ritual contexts. מַצָּה (matstsâh, H4682) specifies the unleavened character, while חַלָּה (challâh, H2471) is more general.
לָבִיבָה lâbîybâh · H3834 · (heart-shaped) bread, (heart-shaped) cake
לָבִיבָה (lâbîybâh, H3834) denotes cake generally; מַצָּה (matstsâh, H4682) specifies cake made without leaven.
In the other Testament 1 word
ἄζυμος ázymos · G106 · without yeast, not having yeast, unleavened
Greek ἄζυμος is the direct lexical equivalent of Hebrew מַצָּה, both denoting bread made without leaven, with ἄζυμος also extending to the figurative sense of moral uncorruptedness and the Passover festival period itself.
Semantic domains 2 entries
Bread001003001003001
מַצָּה denotes unleavened bread, illustrated at Genesis 19:3 (Lot "prepared a feast for them, and baked unleavened bread") and Exodus 12:8 ("they shall eat the meat that same night, roasted... with unleavened bread").
Conflict002003002006
This domain is inherited from the identically-spelled homograph meaning contention or strife rather than independently attested by this bread-related word's own citations.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

מָצַץ mâtsats · H4711 · to suck · 1×מַצָּהmatstsâh · H4682
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H4682. matstsah I. מַצָּה noun feminine unleavened bread, or cake(s); — absolute ׳מ Lev…
H4682. matstsah
I. מַצָּה noun feminine unleavened bread, or cake(s); — absolute ׳מ Lev 2:5; Lev 8:26 (מ ׳חַלַּת אַחַת), Num 6:19 (id.), Num 6:19; usually plural מַצּוֺת Exo 12:15 Exo 12:44t.; מַצֹּת Exo 12:18 Exo 12:3t; — unleavened bread, prepared in form of לֶחֶם Exo 29:2; חַלָּה Exo 29:2 Exo 29:4t. P; רקיקים Exo 29:2; 1Ch 23:29 1Ch 23:4t. P; עגּה Exo 12:39; used at ordinary meals (prepared hastily): מ ׳אפה Gen 19:3 (J), Exo 12:39 (J), 1Sa 28:24; probably also Jdg 6:19-20, Jdg 6:21 (twice in verse); elsewhere at sacrificial meals, e.g. ritual peace-offerings Lev 2:4 (twice in verse); Lev 2:5; Lev 6:9; Lev 7:12 (twice in verse); Lev 10:12; consecration of priesthood Exo 29:2 (3 t. in verse); Exo 29:23; Lev 8:2, Lev 8:26, Lev 8:26; at peace-offering of Nazirite Num 6:15 (twice in verse); Num 6:17, Num 6:19 (twice in verse); at Passover Exo 12:8; Num 9:11 (all P); especially at feast of unleavened bread [cakes] for 7 days after Passover המ חג ׳שׁמר Exo 23:15 (E), Exo 34:18 (J); מ ׳שׁסר Exo 12:17 (P), (ה)מ ׳חג עשׂה2Ch 30:13, 2Ch 30:21; 2Ch 35:17; Ezr 6:22; המ ׳בחג Deu 16:16; 2Ch 8:13; המ ׳חג ׳לי Lev 23:6. During these seven days all Israel ate מצות Exo 12:15, Exo 12:18, Exo 12:20 (P), Exo 23:15 (E), Exo 13:6-7, Exo 34:18 (J), Lev 23:6; Num 28:17 (P), Deu 16:3, Deu 16:8; Jos 5:11; Eze 45:21. — 2Ki 23:9 read probably מִצְוֺת or מִנָיוֺת for ׳מ ᵑ0 (אכל); so Gei Kue Kmp Bu.
[מָצֻק] see מָצוּק below II. צוק
[מְצֻקָה] see מצוּקָה below I. צוק
[מֻצֶ֫קֶת] see ׳מוּצ below יצק. מֵצַר see I. צרר.
מצר (√ of following)

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Bread53 occurrencesConflict0 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

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