Hebrew word study

מַצָּהmatstsâh — properly, sweetness

Pronounced “mats-tsaw'”

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)

Translated in the King James as: unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven.

Appears 53 times in Scripture

Origin: from H4711 (מָצַץ) in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness;

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Where it appears

Genesis — 1×

Genesis 19:3

Exodus — 16×

Exodus 12:8 Exodus 12:15 Exodus 12:17 Exodus 12:18 Exodus 12:20 Exodus 12:39 Exodus 13:6 Exodus 13:7 Exodus 23:15 Exodus 29:2 Exodus 29:23 Exodus 34:18+ 4 more in Exodus

Leviticus — 12×

Leviticus 2:4 Leviticus 2:5 Leviticus 6:16 Leviticus 7:12 Leviticus 8:2 Leviticus 8:26 Leviticus 10:12 Leviticus 23:6+ 4 more in Leviticus

Numbers — 7×

Numbers 6:15 Numbers 6:17 Numbers 6:19 Numbers 9:11 Numbers 28:17+ 2 more in Numbers

Deuteronomy — 3×

Deuteronomy 16:3 Deuteronomy 16:8 Deuteronomy 16:16

Joshua — 1×

Joshua 5:11

Judges — 4×

Judges 6:19 Judges 6:20 Judges 6:21+ 1 more in Judges

1 Samuel — 1×

1 Sam 28:24

2 Kings — 1×

2 Ki 23:9

1 Chronicles — 1×

1 Chr 23:29

2 Chronicles — 4×

2 Chr 8:13 2 Chr 30:13 2 Chr 30:21 2 Chr 35:17

Ezra — 1×

Ezra 6:22

Ezekiel — 1×

Ezekiel 45:21

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