Hebrew - English Dictionary
H4682 - Leaven
| Strong's No.: | H4682 |
| Hebrew: | מַצָּה |
| Transliteration: | matstsâh |
| Phonetic: | mats-tsaw' |
| Word Origin: | From H4711 in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness |
| Bible Usage: | unleavened ({bread} {cake}) without leaven. |
| Strongs Definition: | properly sweetness; concretely sweet (that {is} not soured or bittered with yeast); specifically an unfermented cake or {loaf} or (elliptically) the festival of Passover (because no leaven was then used) |
| Brown Driver Biggs Definition: | 1. unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven. |
| Bible References:
Leaven |
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| Translation Occurrences: |
bread ( 34 )
cakes ( 5 )
leaven ( 1 )
unleavened ( 13 )
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Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.