Matstsâh — H4682

H4682 · Hebrew — מצה

Pronunciation: mats-tsaw'

Definition

feminine substantive

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)

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

Usually translated as

without leaven, unleaved

Origin

from H4711 in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness

Greek equivalents

Occurrences

Matstsâh occurs 53 times in 42 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (1), Exodus (12), Leviticus (8), Numbers (5), Deuteronomy (3), Joshua (1), Judges (3), 1 Samuel (1), 2 Kings (1), 1 Chronicles (1), 2 Chronicles (4), Ezra (1), Ezekiel (1)

Strong's Lexicon — M