Hebrew noun (feminine) · H4682
מַצָּה
matstsahmats-tsaw'
unleavened bread
53 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: matstsâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H4682is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 13 of 39Old Testament books
- 29spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H4682
properly, sweetness; concretely, sweet (i.e. not soured or bittered with yeast); specifically, an unfermented cake or loaf, or (elliptically) the festival of Passover (because no leaven was then used)
The King James renders it: unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven.
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
matstsah is rendered "unleavened bread". It stands 53 times in the Hebrew text, across thirteen books.
- Sixteen of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 19:3But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-nine different ways.
The first use
But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
Genesis 19:3וּמַצּ֥וֹת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Sixteen of the word's fifty-three uses are in Exodus.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- unleavened breads32
- the unleavened breads16
- and unleavened breads2
- unleavened bread2
- and in the unleavened breads1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| מַצָּב | matstsab | station | Uses10 |
| מַצָּה | matstsah | strife | Uses3 |
| מַצָּבָה | matstsabah | guard | Uses2 |
| מַצָּע | matstsa | bed | Uses1 |
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
The words it stands beside
All 53, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
29 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
- מַצּ֖וֹת10
- הַמַּצּ֔וֹת3
- הַמַּצּ֖וֹת3
- הַמַּצּ֛וֹת3
- מַצּוֹת֙3
- הַמַּצּוֹת֮2
- מַצָּ֤ה2
- מַצּ֣וֹת2
- מַצּ֗וֹת2
- מַצּ֥וֹת2
- מַצֹּ֑ת2
- מַצֹּת֙2
and 17 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine plural30HNcfpa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine plural16HTd/Ncfpa
- noun · feminine singular4HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine plural2HC/Ncfpa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine plural1HC/Rd/Ncfpa
Genesis
one use
But Lot insisted so strongly that they followed him into his house. He prepared a feast for them and baked unleavened bread, and they ate.
- וּמַצּ֥וֹתumatzotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and unleavened breads
Exodus
sixteen uses
They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
- וּמַצּ֔וֹתumatzotconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and unleavened breads
For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
- מַצּ֣וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
So you are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must keep this day as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
- הַמַּצּוֹת֒hamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
- מַצֹּ֑תmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”
- מַצּֽוֹת׃ פmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.
- מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.
- מַצֹּ֑תmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
Unleavened bread shall be eaten during those seven days. Nothing leavened may be found among you, nor shall leaven be found anywhere within your borders.
- מַצּוֹת֙matzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread as I commanded you: At the appointed time in the month of Abib you are to eat unleavened bread for seven days, because that was the month you came out of Egypt. No one may appear before Me empty-handed.
- הַמַּצּוֹת֮hamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
- מַצּ֜וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
along with unleavened bread, unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and unleavened wafers anointed with oil. Make them out of fine wheat flour,
- מַצּ֗וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
- מַצֹּת֙matzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
- מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
along with one loaf of bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread that is before the LORD.
- הַמַּצּ֔וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For seven days at the appointed time in the month of Abib, you are to eat unleavened bread as I commanded you. For in the month of Abib you came out of Egypt.
- הַמַּצּוֹת֮hamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
- מַצּוֹת֙matzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
Leviticus
twelve uses
Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.
- מַצֹּת֙matzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
- מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
If your offering is a grain offering prepared on a griddle, it must be unleavened bread made of fine flour mixed with oil.
- מַצָּ֥הmatzahnoun · feminine singulartagged: unleavened breads
Aaron and his sons are to eat the remainder. It must be eaten without leaven in a holy place; they are to eat it in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.
- מַצּ֤וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.
- מַצּוֹת֙matzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
- מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
“Take Aaron and his sons, their garments, the anointing oil, the bull of the sin offering, the two rams, and the basket of unleavened bread,
- הַמַּצּֽוֹת׃hamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
And from the basket of unleavened bread that was before the LORD, he took one cake of unleavened bread, one cake of bread made with oil, and one wafer, and he placed them on the fat portions and on the right thigh.
- הַמַּצּ֜וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
- מַצָּ֤הmatzahnoun · feminine singulartagged: unleavened breads
And Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that remains from the offerings made by fire to the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is most holy.
- מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
- הַמַּצּ֖וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
- מַצּ֥וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
Numbers
seven uses
together with their grain offerings and drink offerings—and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.
- מַצּ֗וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
- מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
He shall also offer the ram as a peace offering to the LORD, along with the basket of unleavened bread. And the priest is to offer the accompanying grain offering and drink offering.
- הַמַּצּ֑וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
And the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration.
- מַצָּ֤הmatzahnoun · feminine singulartagged: unleavened bread
- מַצָּ֖הmatzahnoun · feminine singulartagged: unleavened bread
Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;
- מַצּ֥וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.
- מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
Deuteronomy
three uses
You must not eat leavened bread with it; for seven days you are to eat with it unleavened bread, the bread of affliction, because you left the land of Egypt in haste—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
- מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
For six days you must eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day you shall hold a solemn assembly to the LORD your God, and you must not do any work.
- מַצּ֑וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
Three times a year all your men are to appear before the LORD your God in the place He will choose: at the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed.
- הַמַּצּ֛וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
Joshua
one use
The day after the Passover, on that very day, they ate unleavened bread and roasted grain from the produce of the land.
- מַצּ֣וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
Judges
four uses
So Gideon went in and prepared a young goat and unleavened bread and an ephah of flour. He placed the meat in a basket and the broth in a pot and brought them out to present to Him under the oak.
- מַצּ֔וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
And the angel of God said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread, lay them on this rock, and pour out the broth.” And Gideon did so.
- הַמַּצּוֹת֙hamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.
- וּבַמַּצּ֑וֹתuvammatzotconjunction (“and”) + preposition with the article + noun · feminine pluraltagged: and in the unleavened breads
- הַמַּצּ֔וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
1 Samuel
one use
The woman had a fattened calf at her house, and she quickly slaughtered it. She also took flour, kneaded it, and baked unleavened bread.
- מַצּֽוֹת׃matzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
2 Kings
one use
Although the priests of the high places did not come up to the altar of the LORD in Jerusalem, they ate unleavened bread with their fellow priests.
- מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
1 Chronicles
one use
as well as for the rows of the showbread, the fine flour for the grain offering, the wafers of unleavened bread, the baking, the mixing, and all measurements of quantity and size.
- הַמַּצּ֔וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
2 Chronicles
four uses
He observed the daily requirement for offerings according to the commandment of Moses for Sabbaths, New Moons, and the three annual appointed feasts—the Feast of Unleavened Bread, the Feast of Weeks, and the Feast of Tabernacles.
- הַמַּצּ֛וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
In the second month, a very great assembly gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
- הַמַּצּ֖וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
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.
- הַמַּצּ֛וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
The Israelites who were present also observed the Passover at that time, as well as the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days.
- הַמַּצּ֖וֹתhamatzotthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine pluraltagged: the unleavened breads
Ezra
one use
For seven days they kept the Feast of Unleavened Bread with joy, because the LORD had made them joyful and turned the heart of the king of Assyria toward them to strengthen their hands in the work on the house of the God of Israel.
- מַצּ֛וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
Ezekiel
one use
On the fourteenth day of the first month you are to observe the Passover, a feast of seven days, during which unleavened bread shall be eaten.
- מַצּ֖וֹתmatzotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: unleavened breads
Where it leads
Studies that open this word1
How the numbers are counted
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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 every verse 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.
