מַצָּה

mats.tsahNoun (Feminine)H4682

unleavened bread

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

Short 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)

Full Lexicon Entry

unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven.

Grammar

Part of Speech Noun (Feminine)

Morphology H:N-F

DescriptionH:N-F

Occurrences

41 times

Appears 41 times in the Old Testament. Top books include:

Exodus
12
Leviticus
7
Numbers
5
2 Chronicles
4
Deuteronomy
3

Key Passages

  • 1 Chronicles 23:29
  • Deuteronomy 16:8
  • Exodus 13:6
  • Genesis 19:3
  • Leviticus 23:6

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Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.