מַצָּה
matstsâh · mats-tsaw'
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)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H4711 (מָצַץ) in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness;
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)
- 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)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven.
Letters
- מMem40
Picture: waves of water
- Concrete
- water · sea · blood · liquid
- Extended
- chaos · mighty and uncontrollable · the masses · from / out of
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
water, chaos, the mighty deep › to pursue the straight path › to reveal, behold
Water, chaos, the mighty deep that works to pursue the straight path that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of מַצָּה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
53 occurrences · 53 OT · 0 NT · 29 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- unleavened bread13 · 25%
- of unleavened bread13 · 25%
- unleavened8 · 15%
- and the unleavened cakes3 · 6%
- and unleavened2 · 4%
- of the unleavened bread2 · 4%
- and unleavened bread1 · 2%
- the feast of unleavened bread1 · 2%
- it shall be unleavened1 · 2%
- or unleavened1 · 2%
- with unleavened bread1 · 2%
- of unleavened1 · 2%
- it without leaven1 · 2%
- it with unleavened bread1 · 2%
- shall unleavened bread1 · 2%
- unleavened cakes1 · 2%
- and unleavened cakes1 · 2%
- and for the unleavened1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.