Strong's Hebrew · H4682

H4682 matstsâh

מַצָּה

mats-tsaw'

unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven.

Looking for Greek G4682 sparássō? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H4682. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.

When matstsâh is spoken over you, Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against Scripture with people you trust, and return to it in a year.

Definition

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)

Derivation

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

Appears 53 times in Scripture

Exodus 12:8

“They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.”

Exodus 13:6

“For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the LORD.”

Genesis 19:3

“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.”

Exodus 23:15

“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.”

Exodus 13:7

“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.”

Exodus 12:18

“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.”

Exodus 12:17

“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.”

Exodus 12:20

“You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.””

Exodus 12:15

“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.”

Exodus 12:39

“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.”

When matstsâh is spoken over you

Words like this one get spoken over people: in a prayer line, in a message from a friend, in a moment nobody planned. The lexicon gives you what matstsâh means. What God is saying to you through it is yours to record and weigh.

Doxa is where you record what was said, in the words it was said in, weigh it against verses like Exodus 12:8 with people you trust, and return to it in a year to see what came of it.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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