Word Study · Strong's H4683 · Hebrew
מַצָּה
matstsah
mats-tsaw'
Strong's 1890 spelling: matstsâh
“a quarrel”
Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain
a quarrel
Rendered in the KJV as
contention, debate, strife.
- 3occurrencesin the Old Testament
- 2 of 39Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
- 2inflected formsdistinct spellings
Across 3 occurrences
The word itself
Inflected forms · 2
- מַצָּ֑ה2
- וּמַצָּה֙1
How it is rendered · 2
- contention2
- and contention1
The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.
How it parses · 2
- noun · feminine singular2
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
- HNcfsa · 2
- HC/Ncfsa · 1
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Proverbs2 occurrences
Same headword in Strong's