Môwtsâʼ — H4161

Definition

masculine noun

a going forth, i.e. (the act) an egress, or (the place) an exit; hence, a source or product; specifically, dawn, the rising of the sun (the East), exportation, utterance, a gate, a fountain, a mine, a meadow (as producing grass)

1. act or place of going out or forth, issue, export, source, spring
1. a going forth
1. rising (sun), going forth of a command
2. goings forth, those going forth
3. way out, exit
2. that which goes forth
1. utterance
2. export
3. place of going forth
1. source or spring (of water)
2. place of departure
3. east (of sun)
4. mine (of silver)

Usually translated as

spring, bud, east, vein, watercourse, brought out, that which came out, going forth, goings out, that which, is gone out, outgoing, proceeded out, course

Origin

or môtsâʼ; from H3318

• Derived from Yâtsâʼ (H3318)

Greek equivalents

• éxodos (G1841)
• pēgḗ (G4077)
• poreía (G4197)
• tópos (G5117)

Occurrences

Môwtsâʼ occurs 27 times in 26 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Numbers (2), Deuteronomy (2), 2 Samuel (1), 1 Kings (1), 2 Kings (1), 2 Chronicles (2), Job (2), Psalms (6), Isaiah (2), Jeremiah (1), Ezekiel (4), Daniel (1), Hosea (1)

• Numbers 30:12 — But if her husband hath utterly made them void on the day he heard them; then whatsoever proceeded out (מוֹצָ֨א) of her lips concerning her vows, or concerning the bond of her soul, shall not stand: her husband hath made them void; and the LORD shall forgive her.
• Numbers 33:2 — And Moses wrote their goings out (מוֹצָאֵיהֶ֛ם) according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out.
• Numbers 33:2 — And Moses wrote their goings out according to their journeys by the commandment of the LORD: and these are their journeys according to their goings out (לְמוֹצָאֵיהֶֽם).
• Deuteronomy 8:3 — And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out (מוֹצָ֥א) of the mouth of the LORD doth man live.
• Deuteronomy 23:23 — That which is gone out (מוֹצָ֥א) of thy lips thou shalt keep and perform; even a freewill offering, according as thou hast vowed unto the LORD thy God, which thou hast promised with thy mouth.
• 2 Samuel 3:25 — Thou knowest Abner the son of Ner, that he came to deceive thee, and to know thy going out (מוֹצָֽאֲךָ֙) and thy coming in, and to know all that thou doest.
• 1 Kings 10:28 — And Solomon had horses brought (וּמוֹצָ֧א) out of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
• 2 Kings 2:21 — And he went forth unto the spring (מוֹצָ֣א) of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
• 2 Chronicles 1:16 — And Solomon had horses brought out (וּמוֹצָ֧א) of Egypt, and linen yarn: the king’s merchants received the linen yarn at a price.
• 2 Chronicles 32:30 — This same Hezekiah also stopped the upper watercourse (מוֹצָ֞א) of Gihon, and brought it straight down to the west side of the city of David. And Hezekiah prospered in all his works.
• Job 28:1 — Surely there is a vein (מוֹצָ֑א) for the silver, and a place for gold where they fine it.
• Job 38:27 — To satisfy the desolate and waste ground; and to cause the bud (מֹ֣צָא) of the tender herb to spring forth?
• Psalms 19:6 — His going forth (מֽוֹצָא֗וֹ) is from the end of the heaven, and his circuit unto the ends of it: and there is nothing hid from the heat thereof.
• Psalms 65:8 — They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings (מ֤וֹצָֽאֵי) of the morning and evening to rejoice.
• Psalms 75:6 — For promotion cometh neither from the east (מִ֭מּוֹצָא), nor from the west, nor from the south.
• Psalms 89:34 — My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out (וּמוֹצָ֥א) of my lips.
• Psalms 107:33 — He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings (וּמֹצָ֥אֵי) into dry ground;
• Psalms 107:35 — He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings (לְמֹצָ֥אֵי).
• Isaiah 41:18 — I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs (לְמוֹצָ֥אֵי) of water.
• Isaiah 58:11 — And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring (וּכְמוֹצָ֣א) of water, whose waters fail not.
• Jeremiah 17:16 — As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came (מוֹצָ֣א) out of my lips was right before thee.
• Ezekiel 12:4 — Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth (כְּמוֹצָאֵ֖י) into captivity.
• Ezekiel 42:11 — And the way before them was like the appearance of the chambers which were toward the north, as long as they, and as broad as they: and all their goings out (מוֹצָ֣אֵיהֶ֔ן) were both according to their fashions, and according to their doors.
• Ezekiel 43:11 — And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out (וּמוֹצָאָ֡יו) thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.
• Ezekiel 44:5 — And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the LORD, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth (מוֹצָאֵ֥י) of the sanctuary.
• Daniel 9:25 — Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth (מֹצָ֣א) of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
• Hosea 6:3 — Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth (מֽוֹצָא֑וֹ) is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.