Word Study · Strong's H4682 · Hebrew
מַצָּה
matstsah
mats-tsaw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: matstsâh
“properly, sweetness”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
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)
Rendered in the KJV as
unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven.
- 53occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 13 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 29inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 53 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 29
- מַצּ֖וֹת10
- הַמַּצּ֔וֹת3
- הַמַּצּ֖וֹת3
- הַמַּצּ֛וֹת3
- מַצּוֹת֙3
- הַמַּצּוֹת֮2
- מַצָּ֤ה2
- מַצּ֣וֹת2
- מַצּ֗וֹת2
- מַצּ֥וֹת2
- מַצֹּ֑ת2
- מַצֹּת֙2
and 17 more spellings in the ledger below.
How it is rendered · 5
- unleavened breads32
- the unleavened breads16
- and unleavened breads2
- unleavened bread2
- and in the unleavened breads1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 5
- noun · feminine plural30
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural16
- noun · feminine singular4
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural2
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcfpa · 30
- HTd/Ncfpa · 16
- HNcfsa · 4
- HC/Ncfpa · 2
- HC/Rd/Ncfpa · 1
All 53, in canonical order
The ledger of occurrences
Where this word lives
- Exodus16 of 53 · 30%
- Leviticus12 of 53 · 23%
- Numbers7 of 53 · 13%
- Judges4 of 53 · 8%
- 2 Chronicles4 of 53 · 8%
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Exodus16 occurrences
- Exodus 12:8וּמַצּ֔וֹתumatzotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluralThey are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.here: and unleavened breads
- Exodus 12:15מַצּ֣וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralFor seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.here: unleavened breads
- Exodus 12:17הַמַּצּוֹת֒hamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluralSo you are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must keep this day as a permanent statute for the generations to come.here: the unleavened breads
- Exodus 12:18מַצֹּ֑תmatzotnoun · feminine pluralIn the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.here: unleavened breads
- Exodus 12:20מַצּֽוֹת׃ פmatzotnoun · feminine pluralYou are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”here: unleavened breads
- Exodus 12:39מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralSince their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.here: unleavened breads
- Exodus 13:6מַצֹּ֑תmatzotnoun · feminine pluralFor seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.here: unleavened breads
- Exodus 13:7מַצּוֹת֙matzotnoun · feminine pluralUnleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.here: unleavened breads
- Exodus 23:15הַמַּצּוֹת֮hamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluralYou are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.here: the unleavened breads
- Exodus 23:15מַצּ֜וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralYou are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.here: unleavened breads
- Exodus 29:2מַצּ֗וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralalong with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,here: unleavened breads
- Exodus 29:2מַצֹּת֙matzotnoun · feminine pluralalong with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,here: unleavened breads
- Exodus 29:2מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralalong with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,here: unleavened breads
- Exodus 29:23הַמַּצּ֔וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluralalong with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.here: the unleavened breads
- Exodus 34:18הַמַּצּוֹת֮hamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluralYou are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.here: the unleavened breads
- Exodus 34:18מַצּוֹת֙matzotnoun · feminine pluralYou are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.here: unleavened breads
Leviticus12 occurrences
- Leviticus 2:4מַצֹּת֙matzotnoun · feminine pluralNow if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.here: unleavened breads
- Leviticus 2:4מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralNow if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.here: unleavened breads
- Leviticus 2:5מַצָּ֥הmatzahnoun · feminine singularIf your offering is a grain offering prepared on a griddle, it must be unleavened bread made of fine flour mixed with oil.here: unleavened breads
- Leviticus 6:16מַצּ֤וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralAaron and his sons are to eat the remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.here: unleavened breads
- Leviticus 7:12מַצּוֹת֙matzotnoun · feminine pluralIf he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.here: unleavened breads
- Leviticus 7:12מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralIf he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.here: unleavened breads
- Leviticus 8:2הַמַּצּֽוֹת׃hamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural“Take Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,here: the unleavened breads
- Leviticus 8:26הַמַּצּ֜וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluralAnd from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and he placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.here: the unleavened breads
- Leviticus 8:26מַצָּ֤הmatzahnoun · feminine singularAnd from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and he placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.here: unleavened breads
- Leviticus 10:12מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralAnd Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that remains from the offerings made by fire to the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is most holy.here: unleavened breads
- Leviticus 23:6הַמַּצּ֖וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluralOn the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.here: the unleavened breads
- Leviticus 23:6מַצּ֥וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralOn the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.here: unleavened breads
Numbers7 occurrences
- Numbers 6:15מַצּ֗וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltogether with their grain offerings and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.here: unleavened breads
- Numbers 6:15מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltogether with their grain offerings and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.here: unleavened breads
- Numbers 6:17הַמַּצּ֑וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluralHe shall also offer the ram as a peace offering to the LORD, along with the basket of unleavened bread. And the priest is to offer the accompanying grain offering and drink offering.here: the unleavened breads
- Numbers 6:19מַצָּ֤הmatzahnoun · feminine singularAnd the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration.here: unleavened bread
- Numbers 6:19מַצָּ֖הmatzahnoun · feminine singularAnd the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration.here: unleavened bread
- Numbers 9:11מַצּ֥וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralSuch people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;here: unleavened breads
- Numbers 28:17מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralOn the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.here: unleavened breads
Deuteronomy3 occurrences
- Deuteronomy 16:3מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralYou must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.here: unleavened breads
- Deuteronomy 16:8מַצּ֑וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralFor 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.here: unleavened breads
- Deuteronomy 16:16הַמַּצּ֛וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluralThree times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.here: the unleavened breads
Judges4 occurrences
- Judges 6:19מַצּ֔וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluralSo Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.here: unleavened breads
- Judges 6:20הַמַּצּוֹת֙hamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluralAnd the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so.here: the unleavened breads
- Judges 6:21וּבַמַּצּ֑וֹתuvammatzotconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine pluralThen the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.here: and in the unleavened breads
- Judges 6:21הַמַּצּ֔וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluralThen the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.here: the unleavened breads
2 Chronicles4 occurrences
- 2 Chronicles 8:13הַמַּצּ֛וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluralHe observed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.here: the unleavened breads
- 2 Chronicles 30:13הַמַּצּ֖וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluralIn the second month, a very great assembly gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread.here: the unleavened breads
- 2 Chronicles 30:21הַמַּצּ֛וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluralThe Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, and the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day, accompanied by loud instruments of praise to the LORD.here: the unleavened breads
- 2 Chronicles 35:17הַמַּצּ֖וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluralThe Israelites who were present also observed the Passover at that time, as well as the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.here: the unleavened breads
Same headword in Strong's