H4682 - מַצָּה (matstsâh)

H4682 מַצָּה (matstsâh) mats-tsaw'

Hebrew

Noun (Feminine, Hebrew)

Quick Definition

unleavened bread

Strong's Definition

properly, sweetness; concretely, sweet (i.e. not soured or bittered with yeast); specifically, an unfermented cake or loaf, or (elliptically) the festival of Passover (because no leaven was then used)

Derivation: from H4711 (מָצַץ) in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness;

KJV Usage: unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven.

Outline of Biblical Usage

1) unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven.

Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents

This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:

G740 G2556 G3163

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

מַצָּה matstsâh BDB Definition: 1) unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven. Part of Speech: Total KJV Occurrences: 59

Bible Occurrences (42)

19:3

12:8 12:15 12:17 12:18 12:20 12:39 13:6 13:7 23:15 29:2 29:23 34:18

2:4 2:5 6:16 7:12 8:2 8:26 10:12 23:6

6:15 6:17 6:19 9:11 28:17

16:3 16:8 16:16

5:11

6:19 6:20 6:21

28:24

23:9

23:29

8:13 30:13 30:21 35:17

6:22

45:21

Genesis 19:3

But [Lot] insisted... so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.

Exodus 12:8

They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread... and bitter herbs -.

Exodus 12:15

For seven days you must eat... unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses.... Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh... must be cut off...... from Israel.

Exodus 12:17

So you are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must keep this day as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

Exodus 12:18

In the first [month] you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth... day... until the evening of the twenty-first...... day.

Exodus 12:20

{You are} not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.

Exodus 12:39

Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.

Exodus 13:6

For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.