Hebrew verb · H4672
מָצָא
matsamaw-tsaw'
to find
455 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: mâtsâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4672is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 34 of 39Old Testament books
- 298spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4672
properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present
The King James renders it: [phrase] be able, befall, being, catch, [idiom] certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), [idiom] have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-) on, meet (with), [idiom] occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
matsa is rendered "to find". It stands 455 times in the Hebrew text, across thirty-four books.
- Fifty-six of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 2:20The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
- The Greek text spells it 298 different ways.
The first use
The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
Genesis 2:20מָצָ֥א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in thirty-four of the 39 Old Testament books.
- Genesis56
- Exodus22
- Leviticus8
- Numbers11
- Deuteronomy25
- Joshua4
- Judges14
- Ruth4
- 1 Samuel39
- 2 Samuel10
- 1 Kings16
- 2 Kings25
- 1 Chronicles11
- 2 Chronicles28
- Ezra4
- Nehemiah8
- Esther8
- Job19
- Psalms19
- Proverbs27
- Ecclesiastes17
- Song of Solomon9
- Isaiah18
- Jeremiah26
- Lamentations4
- Ezekiel4
- Daniel4
- Hosea8
- Amos1
- Jonah1
- Micah1
- Zephaniah1
- Zechariah2
- Malachi1
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- I have found31
- and he found16
- it will be found14
- and they found13
- they found13
- it was found12
- which was found11
- he found10
- they were found10
- it will find9
- to find9
- who were found9
and 155 more, 455 uses in all
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| מָצָה | matsah | to drain | Uses7 |
All 455, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
298 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- מָצָ֤אתִי8
- מָצָ֥אתִי8
- מָצָ֨אתִי8
- אֶמְצָא־6
- יִמְצָ֑א6
- הַנִּמְצָ֣א5
- הַנִּמְצָ֖א5
- וַיִּמְצָא֙5
- יִמָּצֵ֥א5
- יִמָּצֵ֣א5
- נִמְצָ֣א5
- יִמְצָ֣א4
and 286 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular40HVqp1cs
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular25HVNi3ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular25HVqp3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular23HVNp3ms
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singular21HTd/VNrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural18HVqp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular17HVqi3ms
- Hc/Vqw3ms16Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural16HVNp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular14HVqi1cs
- Hc/Vqw3mp13Hc/Vqw3mp
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine plural13HTd/VNrmpa
Genesis
fifty-six uses
The man gave names to all the livestock, to the birds of the air, and to every beast of the field. But for Adam no suitable helper was found.
- מָצָ֥אmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he found
Behold, this day You have driven me from the face of the earth, and from Your face I will be hidden; I will be a fugitive and a wanderer on the earth, and whoever finds me will kill me.”
- מֹצְאִ֖יmotzeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: finds me
“Not so!” replied the LORD. “If anyone slays Cain, then Cain will be avenged sevenfold.” And the LORD placed a mark on Cain, so that no one who found him would kill him.
- מֹצְאֽוֹ׃motzeoverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: found him
Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.
- מָ֥צָאmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he found
But the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned to him in the ark, because the waters were still covering the surface of all the earth. So he reached out his hand and brought her back inside the ark.
- מָצְאָה֩matzeahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it found
And as people journeyed eastward, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
- וַֽיִּמְצְא֥וּvaiyimtzeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they found
Now the angel of the LORD found Hagar by a spring of water in the desert—the spring along the road to Shur.
- וַֽיִּמְצָאָ֞הּvaiyimtzaahHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he found her
“My lord,” said Abraham, “if I have found favor in your sight, please do not pass your servant by.
- מָצָ֤אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
So the LORD replied, “If I find fifty righteous ones within the city of Sodom, on their account I will spare the whole place.”
- אֶמְצָ֥אʾemtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will find
suppose the fifty righteous ones lack five. Will You destroy the whole city for the lack of five?” He replied, “If I find forty-five there, I will not destroy it.”
- אֶמְצָ֣אʾemtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will find
Once again Abraham spoke to the LORD, “Suppose forty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the forty, I will not do it.”
- יִמָּצְא֥וּןyimatzeunverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they will be found
Then Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak further. Suppose thirty are found there?” He replied, “If I find thirty there, I will not do it.”
- יִמָּצְא֥וּןyimatzeunverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they will be found
- אֶמְצָ֥אʾemtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will find
And Abraham said, “Now that I have ventured to speak to the Lord, suppose twenty are found there?” He answered, “On account of the twenty, I will not destroy it.”
- יִמָּצְא֥וּןyimatzeunverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they will be found
Finally, Abraham said, “May the Lord not be angry, but let me speak once more. Suppose ten are found there?” And He answered, “On account of the ten, I will not destroy it.”
- יִמָּצְא֥וּןyimatzeunverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: they will be found
And they struck the men at the entrance, young and old, with blindness, so that they wearied themselves trying to find the door.
- לִמְצֹ֥אlimtzo'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to find
At daybreak the angels hurried Lot along, saying, “Get up! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.”
- הַנִּמְצָאֹ֔תhanimtzaotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: who are found
Your servant has indeed found favor in your sight, and you have shown me great kindness by sparing my life. But I cannot run to the mountains; the disaster will overtake me, and I will die.
- מָצָ֨אmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has found
Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,
- וַיִּמְצָ֛אvaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
Then Isaac’s servants dug in the valley and found a well of fresh water there.
- וַיִּ֨מְצְאוּ־vaiyimtzeu-Hc/Vqw3mptagged: and they found
On that same day, Isaac’s servants came and told him about the well they had dug. “We have found water!” they told him.
- מָצָ֥אנוּmatzanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have found
But Isaac asked his son, “How did you ever find it so quickly, my son?” “Because the LORD your God brought it to me,” he replied.
- לִמְצֹ֖אlimtzo'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to find
Now during the wheat harvest, Reuben went out and found some mandrakes in the field. When he brought them to his mother, Rachel begged Leah, “Please give me some of your son’s mandrakes.”
- וַיִּמְצָ֤אvaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
But Laban replied, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please stay. I have learned by divination that the LORD has blessed me because of you.”
- מָצָ֥אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
If you find your gods with anyone here, he shall not live! In the presence of our relatives, see for yourself if anything is yours, and take it back.” For Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen the idols.
- תִּמְצָ֣אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will find
So Laban went into Jacob’s tent, then Leah’s tent, and then the tents of the two maidservants, but he found nothing. Then he left Leah’s tent and entered Rachel’s tent.
- מָצָ֑אmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he found
Now Rachel had taken Laban’s household idols, put them in the saddlebag of her camel, and was sitting on them. And Laban searched everything in the tent but found nothing.
- מָצָֽא׃matza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he found
Rachel said to her father, “Sir, do not be angry that I cannot stand up before you; for I am having my period.” So Laban searched, but could not find the household idols.
- מָצָ֖אmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he found
You have searched all my goods! Have you found anything that belongs to you? Put it here before my brothers and yours, that they may judge between the two of us.
- מָּצָ֙אתָ֙matzataverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: did you find
I have oxen, donkeys, flocks, menservants, and maidservants. I have sent this message to inform my master, so that I may find favor in your sight.’”
- לִמְצֹא־limtzo'-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to find
He also instructed the second, the third, and all those following behind the herds: “When you meet Esau, you are to say the same thing to him.
- בְּמֹצַאֲכֶ֖םbemotzaakhempreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: when find you
“What do you mean by sending this whole company to meet me?” asked Esau. “To find favor in your sight, my lord,” Jacob answered.
- לִמְצֹא־limtzo'-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to find
But Jacob insisted, “No, please! If I have found favor in your sight, then receive this gift from my hand. For indeed, I have seen your face, and it is like seeing the face of God, since you have received me favorably.
- מָצָ֤אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
“Let me leave some of my people with you,” Esau said. But Jacob replied, “Why do that? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
- אֶמְצָא־ʾemtza'-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: let me find
Then Shechem said to Dinah’s father and brothers, “Grant me this favor, and I will give you whatever you ask.
- אֶמְצָא־ʾemtza'-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: let me find
These are the sons of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah. (This is the Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness as he was pasturing the donkeys of his father Zibeon.)
- מָצָ֤אmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he found
a man found him wandering in the field and asked, “What are you looking for?”
- וַיִּמְצָאֵ֣הוּvaiyimtzaehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he found him
“They have moved on from here,” the man answered. “I heard them say, ‘Let us go to Dothan.’” So Joseph set out after his brothers and found them at Dothan.
- וַיִּמְצָאֵ֖םvaiyimtzaemHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he found them
They sent the robe of many colors to their father and said, “We found this. Examine it to see whether it is your son’s robe or not.”
- מָצָ֑אנוּmatzanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have found
Now when Judah sent his friend Hirah the Adullamite with the young goat to collect the items he had left with the woman, he could not find her.
- מְצָאָֽהּ׃metzaahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he found her
So Hirah returned to Judah and said, “I could not find her, and furthermore, the men of that place said, ‘No shrine prostitute has been here.’”
- מְצָאתִ֑יהָmetzatihaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: I found her
“Let her keep the items,” Judah replied. “Otherwise we will become a laughingstock. After all, I did send her this young goat, but you could not find her.”
- מְצָאתָֽהּ׃metzatahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: you found her
Joseph found favor in his sight and became his personal attendant. Potiphar put him in charge of his household and entrusted him with everything he owned.
- וַיִּמְצָ֨אvaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
So Pharaoh asked them, “Can we find anyone like this man, in whom the Spirit of God abides?”
- הֲנִמְצָ֣אhanimtza'question particle + verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: ¿ has he been found
We even brought back to you from the land of Canaan the silver we found in the mouths of our sacks. Why would we steal silver or gold from your master’s house?
- מָצָ֙אנוּ֙matzanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we found
If any of your servants is found to have it, he must die, and the rest will become slaves of my lord.”
- יִמָּצֵ֥אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is found
“As you say,” replied the steward. “But only the one who is found with the cup will be my slave, and the rest of you shall be free of blame.”
- יִמָּצֵ֤אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is found
The steward searched, beginning with the oldest and ending with the youngest—and the cup was found in Benjamin’s sack.
- וַיִּמָּצֵא֙vaiyimatze'Hc/VNw3mstagged: and it was found
“What can we say to my lord?” Judah replied. “How can we plead? How can we justify ourselves? God has exposed the iniquity of your servants. We are now my lord’s slaves—both we and the one who was found with the cup.”
- מָצָא֙matza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has found
- נִמְצָ֥אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was found
But Joseph replied, “Far be it from me to do this. The man who was found with the cup will be my slave. The rest of you may return to your father in peace.”
- נִמְצָ֨אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was found
For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”
- יִמְצָ֖אyimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will find
Joseph collected all the money to be found in the land of Egypt and the land of Canaan in exchange for the grain they were buying, and he brought it into Pharaoh’s palace.
- הַנִּמְצָ֤אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which was found
“You have saved our lives,” they said. “We have found favor in our lord’s eyes, and we will be Pharaoh’s servants.”
- נִמְצָא־nimtza'-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: may we find
When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,
- מָצָ֤אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
When the days of mourning had passed, Joseph said to Pharaoh’s court, “If I have found favor in your eyes, please tell Pharaoh that
- מָצָ֤אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
Exodus
twenty-two uses
Go and get your own straw wherever you can find it; but your workload will in no way be reduced.’”
- תִּמְצָ֑אוּtimtzauverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will find
So give orders now to shelter your livestock and everything you have in the field. Every man or beast that remains in the field and is not brought inside will die when the hail comes down upon them.’”
- יִמָּצֵ֣אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be found
For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
- יִמָּצֵ֖אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be found
Then Moses led Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the Desert of Shur. For three days they walked in the desert without finding water.
- מָ֥צְאוּmatzeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they found
“Eat it today,” Moses said, “because today is a Sabbath to the LORD. Today you will not find anything in the field.
- תִמְצָאֻ֖הוּtimtzauhuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you will find it
Yet on the seventh day some of the people went out to gather, but they did not find anything.
- מָצָֽאוּ׃ סmatzauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they found
Then Moses recounted to his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for Israel’s sake, all the hardships they had encountered along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.
- מְצָאָ֣תַםmetzaatamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: it had come upon them
Whoever kidnaps another man must be put to death, whether he sells him or the man is found in his possession.
- וְנִמְצָ֥אvenimtza'Hc/VNq3mstagged: and he will be found
If a thief is caught breaking in and is beaten to death, no one shall be guilty of bloodshed.
- יִמָּצֵ֥אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be found
If what was stolen is actually found alive in his possession—whether ox or donkey or sheep—he must pay back double.
- הִמָּצֵא֩himatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: actually be found
- תִמָּצֵ֨אtimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be found
If a fire breaks out and spreads to thornbushes so that it consumes stacked or standing grain, or the whole field, the one who started the fire must make full restitution.
- וּמָצְאָ֤הumatzeahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it will find
If a man gives his neighbor money or goods for safekeeping and they are stolen from the neighbor’s house, the thief, if caught, must pay back double.
- יִמָּצֵ֥אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be found
If the thief is not found, the owner of the house must appear before the judges to determine whether he has taken his neighbor’s property.
- יִמָּצֵא֙yimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be found
Then Moses said to the LORD, “Look, You have been telling me, ‘Lead this people up,’ but You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have found favor in My sight.’
- מָצָ֥אתָmatzataverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have found
Now if indeed I have found favor in Your sight, please let me know Your ways, that I may know You and find favor in Your sight. Remember that this nation is Your people.”
- מָצָ֨אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
- אֶמְצָא־ʾemtza'-verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: I may find
For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”
- מָצָ֨אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
So the LORD said to Moses, “I will do this very thing you have asked, for you have found favor in My sight, and I know you by name.”
- מָצָ֤אתָmatzataverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have found
“O Lord,” he said, “if I have indeed found favor in Your sight, my Lord, please go with us. Although this is a stiff-necked people, forgive our iniquity and sin, and take us as Your inheritance.”
- מָצָ֨אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
Everyone who had blue, purple, or scarlet yarn, or fine linen, goat hair, ram skins dyed red, or articles of fine leather, brought them.
- נִמְצָ֣אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was found
And all who could present an offering of silver or bronze brought it as a contribution to the LORD. Also, everyone who had acacia wood for any part of the service brought it.
- נִמְצָ֨אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was found
Leviticus
eight uses
or finds lost property and lies about it and swears falsely, or if he commits any such sin that a man might commit—
- מָצָ֧אmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has found
once he has sinned and becomes guilty, he must return what he has stolen or taken by extortion, or the deposit entrusted to him, or the lost property he found,
- מָצָֽא׃matza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he found
Then Aaron slaughtered the burnt offering. His sons brought him the blood, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar.
- וַ֠יַּמְצִאוּvaiyamtziuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they brought forward
They brought him the burnt offering piece by piece, including the head, and he burned them on the altar.
- הִמְצִ֧יאוּhimtziuverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they brought forward
Then he slaughtered the ox and the ram as the people’s peace offering. His sons brought him the blood, and he sprinkled it on all sides of the altar.
- וַ֠יַּמְצִאוּvaiyamtziuHc/Vhw3mptagged: and they brought forward
But if she cannot afford a lamb, she shall bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons, one for a burnt offering and the other for a sin offering. Then the priest will make atonement for her, and she will be clean.’”
- תִמְצָ֣אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will find
Or if a man has no one to redeem it for him, but he prospers and acquires enough to redeem his land,
- וּמָצָ֖אumatza'Hc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will find
But if he cannot obtain enough to repay him, what he sold will remain in possession of the buyer until the Year of Jubilee. In the Jubilee, however, it is to be released, so that he may return to his property.
- מָֽצְאָ֜הmatzeahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has found
Numbers
eleven uses
So Moses asked the LORD, “Why have You brought this trouble on Your servant? Why have I not found favor in Your sight, that You have laid upon me the burden of all these people?
- מָצָ֥תִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: have I found
If this is how You are going to treat me, please kill me right now—if I have found favor in Your eyes—and let me not see my own wretchedness.”
- מָצָ֥אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
If all our flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”
- וּמָצָ֣אumatza'Hc/Vqq3mstagged: and someone will find
- וּמָצָ֥אumatza'Hc/Vqq3mstagged: and someone will find
While the Israelites were in the wilderness, a man was found gathering wood on the Sabbath day.
- וַֽיִּמְצְא֗וּvaiyimtzeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they found
Those who found the man gathering wood brought him to Moses, Aaron, and the whole congregation,
- הַמֹּצְאִ֥יםhamotzeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the found
From Kadesh, Moses sent messengers to tell the king of Edom, “This is what your brother Israel says: You know all the hardship that has befallen us,
- מְצָאָֽתְנוּ׃metzaatenuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: it has come upon us
So we have brought to the LORD an offering of the gold articles each man acquired—armlets, bracelets, rings, earrings, and necklaces—to make atonement for ourselves before the LORD.”
- מָצָ֤אmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he found
“If we have found favor in your sight,” they said, “let this land be given to your servants as a possession. Do not make us cross the Jordan.”
- מָצָ֤אנוּmatzanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have found
But if you do not do this, you will certainly sin against the LORD—and be assured that your sin will find you out.
- תִּמְצָ֖אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will find
and the avenger of blood finds him outside of his city of refuge and kills him, then the avenger will not be guilty of bloodshed
- וּמָצָ֤אumatza'Hc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will find
Deuteronomy
twenty-five uses
But if from there you will seek the LORD your God, you will find Him if you seek Him with all your heart and with all your soul.
- וּמָצָ֑אתָumatzataHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will find
When you are in distress and all these things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and listen to His voice.
- וּמְצָא֕וּךָumetzaukhaHc/Vqq3cp/Sp2mstagged: and they will come upon you
If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant
- יִמָּצֵ֤אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be found
Let no one be found among you who sacrifices his son or daughter in the fire, practices divination or conjury, interprets omens, practices sorcery,
- יִמָּצֵ֣אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be found
If he goes into the forest with his neighbor to cut timber and swings his axe to chop down a tree, but the blade flies off the handle and strikes and kills his neighbor, he may flee to one of these cities to save his life.
- וּמָצָ֥אumatza'Hc/Vqq3mstagged: and it will find
If they accept your offer of peace and open their gates, all the people there will become forced laborers to serve you.
- הַנִּמְצָא־hanimtza'-the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which is found
If one is found slain, lying in a field in the land that the LORD your God is giving you to possess, and it is not known who killed him,
- יִמָּצֵ֣אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be found
Instead, he must acknowledge the firstborn, the son of his unloved wife, by giving him a double portion of all that he has. For that son is the firstfruits of his father’s strength; the right of the firstborn belongs to him.
- יִמָּצֵ֖אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be found
And you shall do the same for his donkey, his cloak, or anything your brother has lost and you have found. You must not ignore it.
- וּמְצָאתָ֑הּumetzatahHc/Vqq2ms/Sp3fstagged: and you will find it
and he then accuses her of shameful conduct and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman and had relations with her, but I discovered she was not a virgin.”
- מָצָ֥אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I found
And now he has accused her of shameful conduct, saying, ‘I discovered that your daughter was not a virgin.’ But here is the proof of her virginity.” And they shall spread out the cloth before the city elders.
- מָצָ֤אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I found
If, however, this accusation is true, and no proof of the young woman’s virginity can be found,
- נִמְצְא֥וּnimtzeuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were found
If a man is found lying with another man’s wife, both the man who slept with her and the woman must die. You must purge the evil from Israel.
- יִמָּצֵ֨אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be found
If there is a virgin pledged in marriage to a man, and another man encounters her in the city and sleeps with her,
- וּמְצָאָ֥הּumetzaahHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he will find her
But if the man encounters a betrothed woman in the open country, and he overpowers her and lies with her, only the man who has done this must die.
- יִמְצָ֣אyimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will find
When he found her in the field, the betrothed woman cried out, but there was no one to save her.
- מְצָאָ֑הּmetzaahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: he found her
If a man encounters a virgin who is not pledged in marriage, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are discovered,
- יִמְצָ֣אyimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will find
- וְנִמְצָֽאוּ׃venimtzauHc/VNq3cptagged: and they will be found
If a man marries a woman, but she becomes displeasing to him because he finds some indecency in her, he may write her a certificate of divorce, hand it to her, and send her away from his house.
- תִמְצָא־timtza'-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she will find
- מָ֤צָאmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has found
If a man is caught kidnapping one of his Israelite brothers, whether he treats him as a slave or sells him, the kidnapper must die. So you must purge the evil from among you.
- יִמָּצֵ֣אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be found
On that day My anger will burn against them, and I will abandon them and hide My face from them, so that they will be consumed, and many troubles and afflictions will befall them. On that day they will say, ‘Have not these disasters come upon us because our God is no longer with us?’
- וּמְצָאֻ֛הוּumetzauhuHc/Vqq3cp/Sp3mstagged: and they will come upon it
- מְצָא֖וּנִיmetzauniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: have they come upon me
And when many troubles and afflictions have come upon them, this song will testify against them, because it will not be forgotten from the lips of their descendants. For I know their inclination, even before I bring them into the land that I swore to give them.”
- תִמְצֶ֨אןָtimtzenaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will come upon
He found him in a desert land, in a barren, howling wilderness; He surrounded him, He instructed him, He guarded him as the apple of His eye.
- יִמְצָאֵ֙הוּ֙yimtzaehuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he found it
Joshua
four uses
So the spies went out into the hill country and stayed there three days, until their pursuers had returned without finding them, having searched all along the road.
- מָצָֽאוּ׃matzauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they found
Then the two men started back, came down from the hill country, and crossed the river. So they came to Joshua son of Nun and reported all that had happened to them.
- הַמֹּצְא֖וֹתhamotzeotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: the had found
And Joshua was informed: “The five kings have been found; they are hiding in the cave at Makkedah.”
- נִמְצְאוּ֙nimtzeuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been found
“The hill country is not enough for us,” they replied, “and all the Canaanites who live in the valley have iron chariots, both in Beth-shean with its towns and in the Valley of Jezreel.”
- יִמָּ֥צֵאyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be found
Judges
fourteen uses
And there they found Adoni-bezek and fought against him, striking down the Canaanites and Perizzites.
- וַֽ֠יִּמְצְאוּvaiyimtzeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they found
‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?’
- יִמְצְא֜וּyimtzeuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: are they finding
“Please, my Lord,” Gideon replied, “if the LORD is with us, why has all this happened to us? And where are all His wonders of which our fathers told us, saying, ‘Has not the LORD brought us up out of Egypt?’ But now the LORD has forsaken us and delivered us into the hand of Midian.”
- מְצָאַ֖תְנוּmetzaatnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: has it found us
Gideon answered, “If I have found favor in Your sight, give me a sign that it is You speaking with me.
- מָצָ֥אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
And in the morning at sunrise, get up and advance against the city. When Gaal and his men come out against you, do to them whatever you are able.”
- תִּמְצָ֥אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will find
“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets of clothes.
- וּמְצָאתֶ֔םumetzatemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will find out
Before sunset on the seventh day, the men of the city said to Samson: “What is sweeter than honey? And what is stronger than a lion?” So he said to them: “If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have solved my riddle!”
- מְצָאתֶ֖םmetzatemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you found out
He found the fresh jawbone of a donkey, reached out his hand and took it, and struck down a thousand men.
- וַיִּמְצָ֥אvaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
This man left the city of Bethlehem in Judah to settle where he could find a place. And as he traveled, he came to Micah’s house in the hill country of Ephraim.
- יִמְצָ֑אyimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will find
“Where are you from?” Micah asked him. “I am a Levite from Bethlehem in Judah,” he replied, “and I am on my way to settle wherever I can find a place.”
- אֶמְצָֽא׃ʾemtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will find
And the men of Israel turned back against the other Benjamites and put to the sword all the cities, including the animals and everything else they found. And they burned down all the cities in their path.
- הַנִּמְצָ֑אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which was found
- הַנִּמְצָא֖וֹתhanimtzaotthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine pluraltagged: which were found
So they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young women who had not had relations with a man, and they brought them to the camp at Shiloh in the land of Canaan.
- וַֽיִּמְצְא֞וּvaiyimtzeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they found
And at that time the Benjamites returned and were given the women who were spared from Jabesh-gilead. But there were not enough women for all of them.
- מָצְא֥וּmatzeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they found
Ruth
four uses
May the LORD enable each of you to find rest in the home of your new husband.” And she kissed them as they wept aloud
- וּמְצֶ֣אןָumetzenaconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person feminine pluraltagged: and find
And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.
- אֶמְצָא־ʾemtza'-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will find
At this, she fell on her face, bowing low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?”
- מָצָ֨אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: have I found
“My lord,” she said, “may I continue to find favor in your eyes, for you have comforted and spoken kindly to your maidservant, though I am not like one of your servant girls.”
- אֶמְצָא־ʾemtza'-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I am finding
1 Samuel
thirty-nine uses
“May your maidservant find favor with you,” said Hannah. Then she went on her way, and she began eating again, and her face was no longer downcast.
- תִּמְצָ֧אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: may she find
So Saul passed through the hill country of Ephraim and then through the land of Shalishah, but did not find the donkeys. He and the servant went through the region of Shaalim, but they were not there. Then they went through the land of Benjamin, and still they did not find them.
- מָצָ֑אוּmatzauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they found
- מָצָֽאוּ׃matzauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they found
The servant answered him again. “Look,” he said, “I have here in my hand a quarter shekel of silver. I will give it to the man of God, and he will tell us our way.”
- נִמְצָ֣אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: found
And as they were climbing the hill to the city, they met some young women coming out to draw water and asked, “Is the seer here?”
- מָצְא֣וּmatzeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they found
As soon as you enter the city, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; after that, the guests will eat. Go up at once; you will find him.”
- תִּמְצְא֣וּןtimtzeunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will find
- תִּמְצְא֥וּןtimtzeunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will find
As for the donkeys you lost three days ago, do not worry about them, for they have been found. And upon whom is all the desire of Israel, if not upon you and all your father’s house?”
- נִמְצָ֑אוּnimtzauverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been found
When you leave me today, you will find two men at Rachel’s tomb in Zelzah on the border of Benjamin. They will say to you, ‘The donkeys you seek have been found, and now your father has stopped worrying about the donkeys and started worrying about you, asking, “What should I do about my son?”’
- וּמָצָאתָ֩umatzataHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will find
- נִמְצְא֤וּnimtzeuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been found
Then you will go on from there until you come to the Oak of Tabor. Three men going up to God at Bethel will meet you there, one carrying three young goats, another carrying three loaves of bread, and another carrying a skin of wine.
- וּמְצָא֤וּךָumetzaukhaHc/Vqq3cp/Sp2mstagged: and they will find you
When these signs have come, do as the occasion demands, for God is with you.
- תִּמְצָ֣אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will find
And Saul replied, “He assured us that the donkeys had been found.” But Saul did not tell his uncle what Samuel had said about the kingship.
- נִמְצְא֖וּnimtzeuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had been found
Then he had the tribe of Benjamin come forward by its clans, and the clan of Matri was selected. Finally, Saul son of Kish was selected. But when they looked for him, they could not find him.
- נִמְצָֽא׃nimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was found
Samuel said to them, “The LORD is a witness against you, and His anointed is a witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” “He is a witness,” they replied.
- מְצָאתֶ֛םmetzatemverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you have found
Then Samuel set out from Gilgal and went up to Gibeah in Benjamin. And Saul numbered the troops who were with him, about six hundred men.
- הַנִּמְצְאִ֣יםhanimtzeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who were found
Now Saul and Jonathan his son and the troops with them were staying in Geba of Benjamin, while the Philistines camped at Michmash.
- הַנִּמְצָ֣אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which was found
And no blacksmith could be found in all the land of Israel, because the Philistines had said, “The Hebrews must not be allowed to make swords or spears.”
- יִמָּצֵ֔אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was found
So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hands of the troops with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had weapons.
- נִמְצָ֜אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was found
- וַתִּמָּצֵ֣אvatimatze'Hc/VNw3fstagged: and it was found
How much better it would have been if the troops had eaten freely today from the plunder they took from their enemies! Would not the slaughter of the Philistines have been much greater?”
- מָצָ֑אmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it found
Then Saul sent word to Jesse, saying, “Let David remain in my service, for I am pleased with him.”
- מָ֥צָאmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has found
But David again vowed, “Your father knows very well that I have found favor in your eyes, and he has said, ‘Jonathan must not know of this, or he will be grieved.’ As surely as the LORD lives and as you yourself live, there is but a step between me and death.”
- מָצָ֤אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
Then I will send a boy and say, ‘Go, find the arrows!’ Now, if I expressly say to him, ‘Look, the arrows are on this side of you; bring them,’ then come, because as surely as the LORD lives, it is safe for you and there is no danger.
- מְצָ֣אmetza'verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: find
saying, ‘Please let me go, because our clan is holding a sacrifice in the city, and my brother has told me to be there. So now, if I have found favor in your eyes, please let me go and see my brothers.’ That is why he did not come to the king’s table.”
- מָצָ֤אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
He said to the boy, “Run and find the arrows I shoot.” And as the boy ran, Jonathan shot an arrow beyond him.
- מְצָ֥אmetza'verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: find
Now then, what do you have on hand? Give me five loaves of bread, or whatever can be found.”
- הַנִּמְצָֽא׃hanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: that may be found
saying, “Do not be afraid, for my father Saul will never lay a hand on you. And you will be king over Israel, and I will be your second-in-command. Even my father Saul knows this is true.”
- תִֽמְצָאֲךָ֙timtzaakhaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: it will find you
When a man finds his enemy, does he let him go away unharmed? May the LORD reward you with good for what you have done for me this day.
- יִמְצָ֥אyimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will find
Ask your young men, and they will tell you. So let my young men find favor with you, for we have come on the day of a feast. Please give whatever you can afford to your servants and to your son David.’”
- וְיִמְצְא֨וּveyimtzeuHC/Vqu3mptagged: and let them find
- תִּמְצָ֤אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will find
Please forgive your servant’s offense, for the LORD will surely make a lasting dynasty for my lord, because he fights the LORD’s battles. May no evil be found in you as long as you live.
- תִמָּצֵ֥אtimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be found
Then David said to Achish, “If I have found favor in your eyes, let me be assigned a place in one of the outlying towns, so I can live there. For why should your servant live in the royal city with you?”
- מָצָ֨אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
Then the commanders of the Philistines asked, “What about these Hebrews?” Achish replied, “Is this not David, the servant of King Saul of Israel? He has been with me all these days, even years, and from the day he defected until today I have found no fault in him.”
- מָצָ֤אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright in my sight, and it seems right that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you have no favor in the sight of the leaders.
- מָצָ֤אתִֽיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
“But what have I done?” David replied. “What have you found against your servant, from the day I came to you until today, to keep me from going along to fight against the enemies of my lord the king?”
- מָּצָ֣אתָmatzataverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: have you found
Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—
- וַֽיִּמְצְא֤וּvaiyimtzeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they found
When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him critically.
- וַיִּמְצָאֻ֥הוּvaiyimtzauhuHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mstagged: and they found him
The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
- וַֽיִּמְצְא֤וּvaiyimtzeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they found
2 Samuel
ten uses
Abner was furious over Ish-bosheth’s accusation. “Am I the head of a dog that belongs to Judah?” he asked. “All this time I have been loyal to the house of your father Saul, to his brothers, and to his friends. I have not delivered you into the hand of David, but now you accuse me of wrongdoing with this woman!
- הִמְצִיתִ֖ךָhimtzitikhaverb · causative (hiphil), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I have delivered you
For You, O LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, have revealed this to Your servant when You said, ‘I will build a house for you.’ Therefore Your servant has found the courage to offer this prayer to You.
- מָצָ֤אmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has found
Joab fell facedown in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor with you, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.”
- מָצָ֨אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
Then the king said to Zadok, “Return the ark of God to the city. If I find favor in the eyes of the LORD, He will bring me back and let me see both it and His dwelling place again.
- אֶמְצָ֥אʾemtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will find
So the king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I humbly bow before you,” said Ziba. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king!”
- אֶמְצָא־ʾemtza'-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: may I find
Then we will attack David wherever we find him, and we will descend on him like dew on the ground. And of all the men with him, not even one will remain.
- נִמְצָ֣אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is found
If he retreats to a city, all Israel will bring ropes to that city, and we will drag it down to the valley until not even a pebble can be found.”
- נִמְצָ֥אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been found
When Absalom’s servants came to the woman at the house, they asked, “Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan?” “They have crossed over the brook,” she replied. The men searched but did not find them, so they returned to Jerusalem.
- מָצָ֔אוּmatzauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they found
Ahimaaz son of Zadok, however, persisted and said to Joab, “Regardless of whatever may happen, please let me also run behind the Cushite!” “My son,” Joab replied, “why do you want to run, since you will not receive a reward?”
- מֹצֵֽאת׃motzetverb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singulartagged: finding
And David said to Abishai, “Now Sheba the son of Bichri will do us more harm than Absalom. Take your lord’s servants and pursue him, or he will find fortified cities and elude us.”
- מָ֥צָאmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has found
1 Kings
sixteen uses
Then they searched throughout Israel for a beautiful girl, and they found Abishag the Shunammite and brought her to the king.
- וַֽיִּמְצְא֗וּvaiyimtzeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they found
And Solomon replied, “If he is a man of character, not a single hair of his will fall to the ground. But if evil is found in him, he will die.”
- תִמָּצֵא־timatze'-verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be found
There Hadad found such great favor in the sight of Pharaoh that he gave to him in marriage the sister of Queen Tahpenes, his own wife.
- וַיִּמְצָא֙vaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
During that time, the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite met Jeroboam on the road as he was going out of Jerusalem. Now Ahijah had wrapped himself in a new cloak, and the two of them were alone in the open field.
- וַיִּמְצָ֣אvaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
and went after the man of God. He found him sitting under an oak tree and asked, “Are you the man of God who came from Judah?” “I am,” he replied.
- וַיִּ֨מְצָאֵ֔הוּvaiyimtzaehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and he found him
As he went on his way, a lion met him on the road and killed him, and his body was left lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it.
- וַיִּמְצָאֵ֧הוּvaiyimtzaehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and it met him
and he went and found the body lying in the road, with the donkey and the lion standing beside it. The lion had not eaten the body or mauled the donkey.
- וַיִּמְצָ֤אvaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
All Israel will mourn for him and bury him. For this is the only one belonging to Jeroboam who will receive a proper burial, because only in him has the LORD, the God of Israel, found any good in the house of Jeroboam.
- נִמְצָא־nimtza'-verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was found
Then Ahab said to Obadiah, “Go throughout the land to every spring and every valley. Perhaps we will find grass to keep the horses and mules alive so that we will not have to destroy any livestock.”
- נִמְצָ֣אnimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will find
As surely as the LORD your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent someone to search for you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he made that kingdom or nation swear that they had not found you.
- יִמְצָאֶֽכָּה׃yimtzaekahverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: it has found you
I do not know where the Spirit of the LORD may carry you off when I leave you. Then when I go and tell Ahab and he does not find you, he will kill me. But I, your servant, have feared the LORD from my youth.
- יִֽמְצָאֲךָ֖yimtzaakhaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: he will find you
So Elijah departed and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve teams of oxen, and he was with the twelfth team. Elijah passed by him and threw his cloak around him.
- וַיִּמְצָ֞אvaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
Then the prophet said to him, “Because you have not obeyed the voice of the LORD, as soon as you depart from me a lion will kill you.” And when he left, a lion found him and killed him.
- וַיִּמְצָאֵ֥הוּvaiyimtzaehuHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mstagged: and it met him
Then the prophet found another man and said, “Strike me, please!” So the man struck him and wounded him,
- וַיִּמְצָא֙vaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
When Elijah arrived, Ahab said to him, “So you have found me out, my enemy.” He replied, “I have found you out because you have sold yourself to do evil in the sight of the LORD.
- הַֽמְצָאתַ֖נִיhamtzataniquestion particle + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: ¿ have you found me
- מָצָ֔אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
2 Kings
twenty-five uses
But when they pressed him to the point of embarrassment, he said, “Send them.” And they sent fifty men, who searched for three days but did not find Elijah.
- מְצָאֻֽהוּ׃metzauhuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: they found him
So Elisha said to Gehazi, “Tie up your garment, take my staff in your hand, and go! If you meet anyone, do not greet him, and if anyone greets you, do not answer him. Then lay my staff on the boy’s face.”
- תִמְצָ֥אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will meet
One of them went out to the field to gather herbs, and he found a wild vine from which he gathered as many wild gourds as his garment could hold. Then he came back and cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were.
- וַיִּמְצָא֙vaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
Finally, they said to one another, “We are not doing what is right. Today is a day of good news. If we are silent and wait until morning light, our sin will overtake us. Now, therefore, let us go and tell the king’s household.”
- וּמְצָאָ֣נוּumetzaanuHc/Vqq3ms/Sp1bptagged: and it will find us
“Harness!” Joram shouted, and they harnessed his chariot. Then Joram king of Israel and Ahaziah king of Judah set out, each in his own chariot, and met Jehu on the property of Naboth the Jezreelite.
- וַיִּמְצָאֻ֔הוּvaiyimtzauhuHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mstagged: and they found him
But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
- מָ֣צְאוּmatzeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they found
Jehu met some relatives of Ahaziah king of Judah and asked, “Who are you?” “We are relatives of Ahaziah,” they answered, “and we have come down to greet the sons of the king and of the queen mother.”
- מָצָא֙matza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he found
When he left there, he found Jehonadab son of Rechab, who was coming to meet him. Jehu greeted him and asked, “Is your heart as true to mine as my heart is to yours?” “It is!” Jehonadab replied. “If it is,” said Jehu, “give me your hand.” So he gave him his hand, and Jehu helped him into his chariot,
- וַיִּמְצָ֣אvaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
Let every priest receive it from his constituency, and let it be used to repair any damage found in the temple.”
- יִמָּצֵ֥אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be found
Whenever they saw that there was a large amount of money in the chest, the royal scribe and the high priest would go up, count the money brought into the house of the LORD, and tie it up in bags.
- הַנִּמְצָ֥אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which was found
So King Joash of Judah took all the sacred objects dedicated by his fathers—Jehoshaphat, Jehoram, and Ahaziah, the kings of Judah—along with his own consecrated items and all the gold found in the treasuries of the house of the LORD and the royal palace, and he sent them to Hazael king of Aram. So Hazael withdrew from Jerusalem.
- הַנִּמְצָ֛אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which was found
He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace, as well as some hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.
- הַנִּמְצְאִ֣יםhanimtzeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: which were found
Ahaz also took the silver and gold found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the king’s palace, and he sent it as a gift to the king of Assyria.
- הַנִּמְצָא֙hanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which was found
But the king of Assyria discovered that Hoshea had conspired to send envoys to King So of Egypt, and that he had not paid tribute to the king of Assyria as in previous years. Therefore the king of Assyria arrested Hoshea and put him in prison.
- וַיִּמְצָא֩vaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
Hezekiah gave him all the silver that was found in the house of the LORD and in the treasuries of the royal palace.
- הַנִּמְצָ֣אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which was found
Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
- הַנִּמְצָאָֽה׃hanimtzaahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: which is found
When the Rabshakeh heard that the king of Assyria had left Lachish, he withdrew and found the king fighting against Libnah.
- וַיִּמְצָא֙vaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
And Hezekiah received the envoys and showed them all that was in his treasure house—the silver, the gold, the spices, and the precious oil, as well as his armory—all that was found in his storehouses. There was nothing in his palace or in all his dominion that Hezekiah did not show them.
- נִמְצָ֖אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was found
Then Hilkiah the high priest said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan, who read it.
- מָצָ֖אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I found
And Shaphan the scribe went to the king and reported, “Your servants have paid out the money that was found in the temple and have put it into the hands of the workers and supervisors of the house of the LORD.”
- הַנִּמְצָ֣אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which was found
“Go and inquire of the LORD for me, for the people, and for all Judah concerning the words in this book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that burns against us because our fathers have not obeyed the words of this book by doing all that is written about us.”
- הַנִּמְצָ֖אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which had been found
And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the prophets—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
- הַנִּמְצָ֖אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which had been found
Furthermore, Josiah removed the mediums and spiritists, the household gods and idols, and all the abominations that were seen in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem. He did this to carry out the words of the law written in the book that Hilkiah the priest had found in the house of the LORD.
- מָצָ֛אmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had found
Of those still in the city, he took a court official who had been appointed over the men of war, as well as five royal advisors. He also took the scribe of the captain of the army, who had enlisted the people of the land, and sixty men who were found in the city.
- נִמְצְא֣וּnimtzeuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were found
- הַֽנִּמְצְאִ֖יםhanimtzeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who were found
1 Chronicles
eleven uses
There they found rich, good pasture, and the land was spacious, peaceful, and quiet; for some Hamites had lived there formerly.
- וַֽיִּמְצְא֤וּvaiyimtzeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they found
These who were noted by name came in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah. They attacked the Hamites and Meunites there in their dwellings, devoting them to destruction even to this day. Then they settled in their place, because there was pasture for their flocks.
- נִמְצְאוּ־nimtzeu-verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were found
When the battle intensified against Saul, the archers overtook him and wounded him.
- וַיִּמְצָאֻ֖הוּvaiyimtzauhuHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3mstagged: and they found him
The next day, when the Philistines came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.
- וַֽיִּמְצְא֤וּvaiyimtzeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they found
For You, my God, have revealed to Your servant that You will build a house for him. Therefore Your servant has found the courage to pray before You.
- מָצָ֣אmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has found
Then David took the crown from the head of their king. It was found to weigh a talent of gold and was set with precious stones, and it was placed on David’s head. And David took a great amount of plunder from the city.
- וַֽיִּמְצָאָ֣הּ׀vaiyimtzaahHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he found it
Since more leaders were found among Eleazar’s descendants than those of Ithamar, they were divided accordingly. There were sixteen heads of families from the descendants of Eleazar and eight from the descendants of Ithamar.
- וַיִּמָּצְא֣וּvaiyimatzeuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were found
As for the Hebronites, Jerijah was the chief of the Hebronites, according to the genealogies of his ancestors. In the fortieth year of David’s reign the records were searched, and strong, capable men were found among the Hebronites at Jazer in Gilead.
- וַיִּמָּצֵ֥אvaiyimatze'Hc/VNw3mstagged: and it was found
As for you, Solomon my son, know the God of your father and serve Him wholeheartedly and with a willing mind, for the LORD searches every heart and understands the intent of every thought. If you seek Him, He will be found by you; but if you forsake Him, He will reject you forever.
- יִמָּ֣צֵאyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will let himself be found
Whoever had precious stones gave them to the treasury of the house of the LORD, under the care of Jehiel the Gershonite.
- וְהַנִּמְצָ֤אvehanimtza'conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the was found
I know, my God, that You test the heart and delight in uprightness. All these things I have given willingly and with an upright heart, and now I have seen Your people who are present here giving joyfully and willingly to You.
- הַנִּמְצְאוּ־hanimtzeu-the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: who are found
2 Chronicles
twenty-eight uses
Solomon numbered all the foreign men in the land of Israel following the census his father David had conducted, and there were found to be 153,600 in all.
- וַיִּמָּצְא֗וּvaiyimatzeuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were found
Now all the priests who were present had consecrated themselves regardless of their divisions. And when the priests came out of the Holy Place,
- הַֽנִּמְצְאִים֙hanimtzeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who were found
So he went out to meet Asa and said to him, “Listen to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin. The LORD is with you when you are with Him. If you seek Him, He will be found by you, but if you forsake Him, He will forsake you.
- יִמָּצֵ֣אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will let himself be found
But in their distress they turned to the LORD, the God of Israel, and sought Him, and He was found by them.
- וַיִּמָּצֵ֥אvaiyimatze'Hc/VNw3mstagged: and he let himself be found
And all Judah rejoiced over the oath, for they had sworn it with all their heart. They had sought Him earnestly, and He was found by them. So the LORD gave them rest on every side.
- וַיִּמָּצֵ֖אvaiyimatze'Hc/VNw3mstagged: and he let himself be found
However, some good is found in you, for you have removed the Asherah poles from the land and have set your heart on seeking God.”
- נִמְצְא֣וּnimtzeuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have been found
Tomorrow you are to march down against them. You will see them coming up the Ascent of Ziz, and you will find them at the end of the valley facing the Wilderness of Jeruel.
- וּמְצָאתֶ֤םumetzatemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will find
Then Jehoshaphat and his people went to carry off the plunder, and they found on the bodies an abundance of goods and valuables—more than they could carry away. They were gathering the plunder for three days because there was so much.
- וַיִּמְצְאוּ֩vaiyimtzeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they found
So they went to war against Judah, invaded it, and carried off all the possessions found in the king’s palace, along with his sons and wives; not a son was left to him except Jehoahaz, his youngest.
- הַנִּמְצָ֣אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which was found
So while Jehu was executing judgment on the house of Ahab, he found the rulers of Judah and the sons of Ahaziah’s brothers who were serving Ahaziah, and he killed them.
- וַיִּמְצָא֩vaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
Then Amaziah gathered the people of Judah and assigned them according to their families to commanders of thousands and of hundreds. And he numbered those twenty years of age or older throughout Judah and Benjamin and found 300,000 chosen men able to serve in the army, bearing the spear and shield.
- וַיִּמְצָאֵ֗םvaiyimtzaemHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he found them
He took all the gold and silver and all the articles found in the house of God with Obed-edom and in the treasuries of the royal palace, as well as some hostages. Then he returned to Samaria.
- הַנִּמְצְאִ֨יםhanimtzeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: which were found
So the priests went inside the house of the LORD to cleanse it, and they brought out to the courtyard all the unclean things that they found in the temple of the LORD. Then the Levites took these things and carried them out to the Kidron Valley.
- מָֽצְאוּ֙matzeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they found
When the offerings were completed, the king and all those present with him bowed down and worshiped.
- הַנִּמְצְאִ֥יםhanimtzeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: those were found
The 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.
- הַנִּמְצְאִ֨יםhanimtzeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who were found
When all this had ended, the Israelites in attendance went out to the cities of Judah and broke up the sacred pillars, chopped down the Asherah poles, and tore down the high places and altars throughout Judah and Benjamin, as well as in Ephraim and Manasseh, until they had utterly destroyed them all. Then all the Israelites returned to their cities, each to his own property.
- הַֽנִּמְצְאִים֮hanimtzeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who were found
Many people assembled and stopped up all the springs and the stream that flowed through the land. “Why should the kings of Assyria come and find plenty of water?” they said.
- וּמָצְא֖וּumatzeuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will find
While they were bringing out the money that had been taken into the house of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found the Book of the Law of the LORD written by Moses.
- מָצָא֙matza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he found
And Hilkiah said to Shaphan the scribe, “I have found the Book of the Law in the house of the LORD!” And he gave it to Shaphan.
- מָצָ֖אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
They have paid out the money that was found in the house of the LORD and have put it into the hands of the supervisors and workers.”
- הַנִּמְצָ֣אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which was found
“Go and inquire of the LORD for me and for those remaining in Israel and Judah concerning the words in the book that has been found. For great is the wrath of the LORD that has been poured out on us because our fathers have not kept the word of the LORD by doing all that is written in this book.”
- נִמְצָ֑אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been found
And he went up to the house of the LORD with all the people of Judah and Jerusalem, as well as the priests and the Levites—all the people small and great—and in their hearing he read all the words of the Book of the Covenant that had been found in the house of the LORD.
- הַנִּמְצָ֖אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which had been found
Then he had everyone in Jerusalem and Benjamin take a stand in agreement to it. So all the people of Jerusalem carried out the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.
- הַנִּמְצָ֥אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the was found
And Josiah removed all the abominations from all the lands belonging to the Israelites, and he required everyone in Israel to serve the LORD their God. Throughout his reign they did not turn aside from following the LORD, the God of their fathers.
- הַנִּמְצָא֙hanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the was found
From his own flocks and herds Josiah contributed 30,000 lambs and goats plus 3,000 bulls for the Passover offerings for all the people who were present.
- הַנִּמְצָ֗אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the was found
The Israelites who were present also observed the Passover at that time, as well as the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.
- הַֽנִּמְצְאִ֛יםhanimtzeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who were found
No such Passover had been observed in Israel since the days of Samuel the prophet. None of the kings of Israel ever observed a Passover like the one that Josiah observed with the priests, the Levites, all Judah, the Israelites who were present, and the people of Jerusalem.
- הַנִּמְצָ֔אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: which was found
As for the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, the abominations he committed, and all that was found against him, they are indeed written in the Book of the Kings of Israel and Judah. And his son Jehoiachin reigned in his place.
- וְהַנִּמְצָ֣אvehanimtza'conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the was found
Ezra
four uses
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
- נִמְצָ֑אוּnimtzauverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were found
Now I assembled these exiles at the canal that flows to Ahava, and we camped there three days. And when I searched among the people and priests, I found no Levites there.
- מָצָ֥אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I found
and I weighed out to them the contribution of silver and gold and the articles that the king, his counselors, his leaders, and all the Israelites there had offered for the house of our God.
- הַנִּמְצָאִֽים׃hanimtzaimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who were found
Among the descendants of the priests who had married foreign women were found these descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak and his brothers:
- וַיִּמָּצֵא֙vaiyimatze'Hc/VNw3mstagged: and it was found
Nehemiah
eight uses
and said, “We have done our best to buy back our Jewish brothers who were sold to foreigners, but now you are selling your own brothers, that they may be sold back to us!” But they remained silent, for they could find nothing to say.
- מָצְא֖וּmatzeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they found
Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles, the officials, and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. I found the genealogical register of those who had first returned, and I found the following written in it:
- וָֽאֶמְצָ֗אvaemtza'Hc/Vqw1cstagged: and I found
- וָאֶמְצָ֖אvaemtza'Hc/Vqw1cstagged: and I found
These men searched for their family records, but they could not find them and so were excluded from the priesthood as unclean.
- נִמְצָ֑אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was found
And they found written in the Law, which the LORD had commanded through Moses, that the Israelites were to dwell in booths during the feast of the seventh month.
- וַֽיִּמְצְא֖וּvaiyimtzeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they found
You found his heart faithful before You, and made a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites and Hittites, of the Amorites and Perizzites, of the Jebusites and Girgashites—to give it to his descendants. You have kept Your promise, because You are righteous.
- וּמָצָ֣אתָumatzataHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you found
So now, our God, the great and mighty and awesome God who keeps His gracious covenant, do not view lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, and upon our kings and leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors and all Your people, from the days of the kings of Assyria until today.
- מְ֠צָאַתְנוּmetzaatnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine pluraltagged: it has come upon us
At that time the Book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, and in it they found the passage stating that no Ammonite or Moabite should ever enter the assembly of God,
- וְנִמְצָא֙venimtza'Hc/VNq3mstagged: and it was found
Esther
eight uses
At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest.
- הַנִּמְצְאִים֩hanimtzeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who were found
After the report had been investigated and verified, both officials were hanged on the gallows. And all this was recorded in the Book of the Chronicles in the presence of the king.
- וַיִּמָּצֵ֔אvaiyimatze'Hc/VNw3mstagged: and it was found
“Go and assemble all the Jews who can be found in Susa, and fast for me. Do not eat or drink for three days, night or day, and I and my maidens will fast as you do. After that, I will go to the king, even though it is against the law. And if I perish, I perish!”
- הַֽנִּמְצְאִ֣יםhanimtzeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who are found
If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it pleases the king to grant my petition and fulfill my request, may the king and Haman come tomorrow to the banquet I will prepare for them. Then I will answer the king’s question.”
- מָצָ֨אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
- וַיִּמָּצֵ֣אvaiyimatze'Hc/VNw3mstagged: and it was found
Queen Esther replied, “If I have found favor in your sight, O king, and if it pleases the king, grant me my life as my petition, and the lives of my people as my request.
- מָצָ֨אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
“If it pleases the king,” she said, “and if I have found favor in his sight, and the matter seems proper to the king, and I am pleasing in his sight, may an order be written to revoke the letters that the scheming Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, wrote to destroy the Jews in all the king’s provinces.
- מָצָ֧אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
For how could I bear to see the disaster that would befall my people? How could I bear to see the destruction of my kindred?”
- יִמְצָ֣אyimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will find
Job
nineteen uses
who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?
- יִמְצְאוּ־yimtzeu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they find
Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
- תִּמְצָ֑אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you find
- תִּמְצָֽא׃timtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: will you find
But come back and try again, all of you. For I will not find a wise man among you.
- אֶמְצָ֖אʾemtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will find
If you say, ‘Let us persecute him, since the root of the matter lies with him,’
- נִמְצָא־nimtza'-verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been found
He will fly away like a dream, never to be found; he will be chased away like a vision in the night.
- יִמְצָא֑וּהוּyimtzauhuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: people will find him
If only I knew where to find Him, so that I could go to His seat.
- וְאֶמְצָאֵ֑הוּveemtzaehuHC/Vqu1cs/Sp3mstagged: and I will find him
But where can wisdom be found, and where does understanding dwell?
- תִּמָּצֵ֑אtimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: will it be found
No man can know its value, nor is it found in the land of the living.
- תִ֝מָּצֵ֗אtimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is found
if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
- מָצְאָ֥הmatzeahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it had found
If I have rejoiced in my enemy’s ruin, or exulted when evil befell him—
- מְצָ֥אוֹmetzaovverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had found him
and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
- מָצְא֣וּmatzeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they had found
So do not claim, ‘We have found wisdom; let God, not man, refute him.’
- מָצָ֣אנוּmatzanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have found
Yet God finds occasions against me; He counts me as His enemy.
- יִמְצָ֑אyimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he finds
to be gracious to him and say, ‘Spare him from going down to the Pit; I have found his ransom,’
- מָצָ֥אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
For according to a man’s deeds He repays him; according to a man’s ways He brings consequences.
- יַמְצִאֶֽנּוּ׃yamtzienuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will make find him
Whether for punishment or for His land, He accomplishes this in His loving devotion.
- יַמְצִאֵֽהוּ׃yamtziehuverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he makes find it
The Almighty is beyond our reach; He is exalted in power! In His justice and great righteousness He does not oppress.
- מְ֭צָאנֻהוּmetzanuhuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: we have found him
No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.
- נִמְצָ֜אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was found
Psalms
nineteen uses
Break the arm of the wicked and evildoer; call him to account for his wickedness until none is left to be found.
- תִּמְצָֽא׃timtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will find
You have tried my heart; You have visited me in the night. You have tested me and found no evil; I have resolved not to sin with my mouth.
- תִּמְצָ֑אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will find
Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
- תִּמְצָ֣אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will find
- תִּמְצָ֥אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will find
Therefore let all the godly pray to You while You may be found. Surely when great waters rise, they will not come near.
- מְ֫צֹ֥אmetzo'verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: finding
For his eyes are too full of conceit to detect or hate his own sin.
- לִמְצֹ֖אlimtzo'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to find
yet he passed away and was no more; though I searched, he could not be found.
- נִמְצָֽא׃nimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was found
God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in times of trouble.
- נִמְצָ֥אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: he is found
Insults have broken my heart, and I am in despair. I looked for sympathy, but there was none, for comforters, but I found no one.
- מָצָֽאתִי׃matzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I found
The valiant lie plundered; they sleep their last sleep. No men of might could lift a hand.
- מָצְא֖וּmatzeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they found
Even the sparrow has found a home, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she places her young near Your altars, O LORD of Hosts, my King and my God.
- מָ֪צְאָהmatzeahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has found
I have found My servant David; with My sacred oil I have anointed him.
- מָ֭צָאתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
Some wandered in desert wastelands, finding no path to a city in which to dwell.
- מָצָֽאוּ׃matzauverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they found
The ropes of death entangled me; the anguish of Sheol overcame me; I was confronted by trouble and sorrow.
- מְצָא֑וּנִיmetzauniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they found me
- אֶמְצָֽא׃ʾemtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I found
Trouble and distress have found me, but Your commandments are my delight.
- מְצָא֑וּנִיmetzauniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they have found me
I rejoice in Your promise like one who finds great spoil.
- כְּ֝מוֹצֵ֗אkemotze'preposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like brings out
until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling for the Mighty One of Jacob.”
- אֶמְצָ֣אʾemtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will find
We heard that the ark was in Ephrathah; we found it in the fields of Jaar.
- מְ֝צָאנ֗וּהָmetzanuhaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: we found it
Proverbs
twenty-seven uses
We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.
- נִמְצָ֑אnimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will find
Then they will call on me, but I will not answer; they will earnestly seek me, but will not find me.
- יִמְצָאֻֽנְנִי׃yimtzauniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they will find me
then you will discern the fear of the LORD and discover the knowledge of God.
- תִּמְצָֽא׃timtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will find
Then you will find favor and high regard in the sight of God and man.
- וּמְצָא־umetza'-conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and find
Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who acquires understanding,
- מָצָ֣אmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he finds
For they are life to those who find them, and health to the whole body.
- לְמֹצְאֵיהֶ֑םlemotzeeihempreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: to find them
Yet if caught, he must pay sevenfold; he must give up all the wealth of his house.
- וְ֭נִמְצָאvenimtza'conjunction (“and”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and he will be found out
Wounds and dishonor will befall him, and his reproach will never be wiped away.
- יִמְצָ֑אyimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will find
So I came out to meet you; I sought you, and I have found you.
- וָאֶמְצָאֶֽךָּ׃vaemtzaekaHc/Vqw1cs/Sp2mstagged: and I have found you
They are all plain to the discerning, and upright to those who find knowledge.
- לְמֹ֣צְאֵיlemotzeeipreposition + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to find
I, wisdom, dwell together with prudence, and I find knowledge and discretion.
- אֶמְצָֽא׃ʾemtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I find
I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me.
- יִמְצָאֻֽנְנִי׃yimtzauniverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they find me
For whoever finds me finds life and obtains the favor of the LORD.
- מֹ֭צְאִיmotzeiverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: finds me
- מָצָ֣אmotzeei'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he finds
Wisdom is found on the lips of the discerning, but a rod is for the back of him who lacks judgment.
- תִּמָּצֵ֣אtimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is found
Whoever heeds instruction will find success, and blessed is he who trusts in the LORD.
- יִמְצָא־yimtza'-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he finds
Gray hair is a crown of glory; it is attained along the path of righteousness.
- תִּמָּצֵֽא׃timatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it is found
The one with a perverse heart finds no good, and he whose tongue is deceitful falls into trouble.
- יִמְצָא־yimtza'-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he finds
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.
- מָצָ֣אmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he finds
- מָ֣צָאmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he finds
He who acquires wisdom loves himself; one who safeguards understanding will find success.
- לִמְצֹא־limtzo'-preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to find
Many a man proclaims his loving devotion, but who can find a trustworthy man?
- יִמְצָֽא׃yimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he find
He who pursues righteousness and loving devotion finds life, righteousness, and honor.
- יִמְצָ֥אyimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he finds
Know therefore that wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, there is a future for you, and your hope will never be cut off.
- מָ֭צָאתָmatzataverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you find
If you find honey, eat just what you need, lest you have too much and vomit it up.
- מָ֭צָאתָmatzataverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have found
He who rebukes a man will later find more favor than one who flatters with his tongue.
- יִמְצָ֑אyimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will find
A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.
- יִמְצָ֑אyimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he find
Ecclesiastes
seventeen uses
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men, yet they cannot fathom the work that God has done from beginning to end.
- יִמְצָ֣אyimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will find
In the day of prosperity, be joyful, but in the day of adversity, consider this: God has made one of these along with the other, so that a man cannot discover anything that will come after him.
- יִמְצָ֧אyimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will find out
What exists is out of reach and very deep. Who can fathom it?
- יִמְצָאֶֽנּוּ׃yimtzaenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: will he find out it
And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
- וּמוֹצֶ֨אumotze'conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and finding
“Behold,” says the Teacher, “I have discovered this by adding one thing to another to find an explanation.
- מָצָ֔אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
- לִמְצֹ֥אlimtzo'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to find
While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.
- מָצָ֑אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
- מָצָ֔אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
- מָצָֽאתִי׃matzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
Only this have I found: I have discovered that God made men upright, but they have sought out many schemes.”
- מָצָ֔אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
I saw every work of God, and that a man is unable to comprehend the work that is done under the sun. Despite his efforts to search it out, he cannot find its meaning; even if the wise man claims to know, he is unable to comprehend.
- לִמְצוֹא֙limtzo'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to find out
- יִמְצָ֑אyimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will find out
- לִמְצֹֽא׃limtzo'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to find out
Whatever you find to do with your hands, do it with all your might, for in Sheol, where you are going, there is no work or planning or knowledge or wisdom.
- תִּמְצָ֧אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it finds
Now a poor wise man was found in the city, and he saved the city by his wisdom. Yet no one remembered that poor man.
- וּמָ֣צָאumatza'Hc/Vqq3mstagged: and someone found
Cast your bread upon the waters, for after many days you will find it again.
- תִּמְצָאֶֽנּוּ׃timtzaenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you will find it
The Teacher searched to find delightful sayings and to record accurate words of truth.
- לִמְצֹ֖אlimtzo'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to find
Song of Solomon
nine uses
On my bed at night I sought the one I love; I sought him, but did not find him.
- מְצָאתִֽיו׃metzativverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I found him
I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.
- מְצָאתִֽיו׃metzativverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I found him
I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city: “Have you seen the one I love?”
- מְצָא֙וּנִי֙metzauniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they found me
I had just passed them when I found the one I love. I held him and would not let go until I had brought him to my mother’s house, to the chamber of the one who conceived me.
- שֶֽׁמָּצָ֔אתִיshematzatirelative particle (“who / which”) + verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: that I found
I opened for my beloved, but he had turned and gone. My heart sank at his departure. I sought him, but did not find him. I called, but he did not answer.
- מְצָאתִ֔יהוּmetzatihuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: I found him
I encountered the watchmen on their rounds of the city. They beat me and bruised me; they took away my cloak, those guardians of the walls.
- מְצָאֻ֧נִיmetzauniverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: they found me
O daughters of Jerusalem, I adjure you, if you find my beloved, tell him I am sick with love.
- תִּמְצְאוּ֙timtzeuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will find
O that you were to me like a brother who nursed at my mother’s breasts! If I found you outdoors, I would kiss you, and no one would despise me.
- אֶֽמְצָאֲךָ֤ʾemtzaakhaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: I will find you
I am a wall, and my breasts are like towers. So I have become in his eyes like one who brings peace.
- כְּמוֹצְאֵ֥תkemotzetpreposition + verb · causative (hiphil), participle · feminine singulartagged: like finds
Isaiah
eighteen uses
As my hand seized the idolatrous kingdoms whose images surpassed those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
- מָצְאָ֣הmatzeahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it has found
My hand reached as into a nest to seize the wealth of the nations. Like one gathering abandoned eggs, I gathered all the earth. No wing fluttered, no beak opened or chirped.’”
- וַתִּמְצָ֨אvatimtza'Hc/Vqw3fstagged: and it has found
Whoever is caught will be stabbed, and whoever is captured will die by the sword.
- הַנִּמְצָ֖אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the is found
- נִמְצָאַ֙יִךְ֙nimtzaayikhverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: found your
- יִמָּצֵ֤אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be found
- וּמָצְאָ֥הumatzeahHc/Vqq3fstagged: and it will find
- תִמָּצֵ֖אtimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be found
- הַנִּמְצָאָֽה׃hanimtzaahthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · feminine singulartagged: which is found
- וַיִּמְצָא֙vaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
- נִמְצָ֖אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was found
- תִמְצָאֵ֔םtimtzaemverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you will find them
- יִמָּ֣צֵאyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be found
- בְּהִמָּצְא֑וֹbehimatzeopreposition + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: when he lets be found himself
- מָצָ֔אתmatzatverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you found
- תִּמְצְאוּ־timtzeu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you find
- מִמְּצ֥וֹאmimetzo'preposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: from finding
- נִמְצֵ֖אתִיnimtzetiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I let myself be found
- יִמָּצֵ֤אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is found
Jeremiah
twenty-six uses
- מָּצְא֨וּmatzeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: did they find
- יִמְצָאֽוּנְהָ׃yimtzaunehaverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: they will find it
- יִמָּצֵ֔אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he is found
- נִמְצְא֔וּnimtzeuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were found
- מְצָאתִ֖יםmetzatimverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: you found them
- תִּמְצְא֣וּtimtzeuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will find
- נִמְצְא֥וּnimtzeuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are found
- וּמִצְא֥וּumitzuconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), command · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and find
- יִמְצָֽאוּ׃ סyimtzauverb · simple (qal), jussive (“let him”) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they may find
- נִֽמְצָא־nimtza'-verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it has been found
- מָ֣צְאוּmatzeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have found
- נִמְצְא֤וּnimtzeuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were found
- מָצָ֥אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
- וּמְצָאתֶ֑םumetzatemHc/Vqq2mptagged: and you will find
- וְנִמְצֵ֣אתִיvenimtzetiHc/VNq1cstagged: and I will let myself be found
- מָצָ֥אmatza'verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it found
- נִמְצְאוּ־nimtzeu-verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were found
- נִמְצְאוּ־nimtzeu-verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were found
- וַיִּמְצְא֣וּvaiyimtzeuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they found
- מָצָֽאתִי׃ סmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
- נִמְצָ֑אnimtzaah'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: was it found
- מוֹצְאֵיהֶ֣םmotzeihemverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: found them
- תִמָּצֶ֑אינָהtimatzenahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: they will be found
- נִמְצֵאת֙nimtzetverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you were found
- נִמְצְא֣וּnimtzeuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were found
- הַֽנִּמְצְאִ֖יםhanimtzeimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: who were found
Lamentations
four uses
- מָצְאָ֖הmatzeahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she has found
- מָצְא֣וּmatzeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have found
- מָצְא֥וּmatzeuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have found
- מָצָ֥אנוּmatzanuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we have found
Ezekiel
four uses
- תִּמְצָ֖אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you find
- מָצָֽאתִי׃matzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I found
- תִמָּצְאִ֥יtimatzeiverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: you will be found
- נִמְצָ֥אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was found
Daniel
four uses
- נִמְצָא֙nimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he was found
- וַֽיִּמְצָאֵ֞םvaiyimtzaemHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he found them
- יִמָּצֵֽא׃yimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be found
- הַנִּמְצָ֖אhanimtza'the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle · masculine singulartagged: the is found
Hosea
eight uses
- תִמְצָֽא׃timtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she will find
- תִמְצָ֑אtimtza'verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she will find
- יִמְצָ֑אוּyimtzauverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will find
- מָצָ֙אתִי֙matzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I found
- יִמְצָאֶ֔נּוּyimtzaenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he found him
- מָצָ֥אתִיmatzativerb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I have found
- יִמְצְאוּ־yimtzeu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: people will find
- נִמְצָֽא׃nimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is found
Amos
one use
- יִמְצָֽאוּ׃yimtzauverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will find
Jonah
one use
- וַיִּמְצָ֥אvaiyimtza'Hc/Vqw3mstagged: and he found
Micah
one use
- נִמְצְא֖וּnimtzeuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they were found
Zephaniah
one use
- יִמָּצֵ֥אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be found
Zechariah
two uses
- יִמָּצֵ֖אyimatze'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be found
- מַמְצִ֣יאmamtzi'verb · causative (hiphil), participle · masculine singulartagged: about to deliver
Malachi
one use
- נִמְצָ֣אnimtza'verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was found
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in the first 120 verses where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.
