מַצָּה
mats.tsah
“unleavened bread”
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)
from H4711 (מָצַץ) in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness;
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Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
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Occurrences
מַצָּה appears 41 times in the Old Testament.
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Key Passages
as well as for the rows of the showbread, the fine flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baking, the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.
For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.
For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
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.
On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
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