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Hebrew · Strong's H4672

מָצָא

matsamaw-tsaw'

properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist

1890 spelling: mâtsâʼ

Strong's Dictionary · 1890

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

Rendered in the KJV as

[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.

  • 455
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 34 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 298
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 455 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 298

  • מָצָ֤אתִי8
  • מָצָ֥אתִי8
  • מָצָ֨אתִי8
  • אֶמְצָא־6
  • יִמְצָ֑א6
  • הַנִּמְצָ֣א5
  • הַנִּמְצָ֖א5
  • וַיִּמְצָא֙5
  • יִמָּצֵ֥א5
  • יִמָּצֵ֣א5
  • נִמְצָ֣א5
  • יִמְצָ֣א4

and 286 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 186

  • I have found30
  • and he found16
  • it will be found14
  • and they found13
  • it was found12
  • which was found11
  • they were found10
  • it will find9
  • who were found9
  • he found8
  • he has found8
  • he will be found8

The sense the word carries at each spot: how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 114

  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 1st person common singular40
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular25
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular25
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), completed action · 3rd person masculine singular23
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine singular21
  • verb · simple (qal), completed action · 3rd person common plural18
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 3rd person masculine singular17
  • Hc/Vqw3ms16
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), completed action · 3rd person common plural16
  • verb · simple (qal), ongoing or future action · 1st person common singular14
  • Hc/Vqw3mp13
  • the definite article (“the”) + verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), participle (“the one who…”) · masculine plural13
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HVqp1cs · 40
  • HVNi3ms · 25
  • HVqp3ms · 25
  • HVNp3ms · 23
  • HTd/VNrmsa · 21
  • HVqp3cp · 18
  • HVqi3ms · 17
  • Hc/Vqw3ms · 16
  • HVNp3cp · 16
  • HVqi1cs · 14
  • Hc/Vqw3mp · 13
  • HTd/VNrmpa · 13

All 455, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Genesis carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis56 occurrences
Exodus22 occurrences
Leviticus8 occurrences
Numbers11 occurrences
Deuteronomy25 occurrences
Joshua4 occurrences
Judges14 occurrences
Ruth4 occurrences
1 Samuel39 occurrences
2 Samuel10 occurrences
1 Kings16 occurrences
2 Kings25 occurrences
1 Chronicles11 occurrences
2 Chronicles28 occurrences
Ezra4 occurrences
Nehemiah8 occurrences
Esther8 occurrences
Job19 occurrences
Psalms19 occurrences
Proverbs27 occurrences
Ecclesiastes17 occurrences
Song of Solomon9 occurrences
Isaiah18 occurrences
Jeremiah26 occurrences
Lamentations4 occurrences
Ezekiel4 occurrences
Daniel4 occurrences
Hosea8 occurrences
Amos1 occurrence
Jonah1 occurrence
Micah1 occurrence
Zephaniah1 occurrence
Zechariah2 occurrences
Malachi1 occurrence
Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0: their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).