מָצָא

ma.tsa · to find

Hebrew · Strong's H4672 · Verb · Sounds like: maw-tsaw' · 455 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

a primitive root; properly, to come forth to, i.e. appear or exist; transitively, to attain, i.e. find or acquire; figuratively, to occur, meet or be present; [phrase] be able, befall, being, catch, [idiom] certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), [idiom] have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-) on, meet (with), [idiom] occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
מָצָא 452 vb. attain to, find
Qal
1. find
2. find out
3. = come upon, light upon
4. noteworthy phrases
Niph. pass. of Qal, be found
Hiph.
1. cause to find, attain
2. cause to light upon, come upon, come
3. cause to encounter
4. present unto

Every occurrence

  1. 2 Chronicles 31:1 הַֽנִּמְצְאִים֮ ha.nim.tze.'Im · An -ing word: receiving the action

    Now when all this was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and brake in pieces the pillars, and hewed down the Asherim, and brake down the high places and the altars out of all Judah and Benjamin, in Ephraim also and Manasseh, until they had destroyed them all. Then all the children of Israel returned, every man to his possession, into their own cities.

  2. 2 Chronicles 32:4 וּמָצְא֖וּ u.ma.tze.'U · An action: simple action, and then it will happen, done by them

    So there was gathered much people together, and they stopped all the fountains, and the brook that flowed through the midst of the land, saying, Why should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?

  3. 2 Chronicles 34:14 מָצָא֙ ma.Tza' · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    And when they brought out the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah, Hilkiah the priest found the book of the law of Jehovah given by Moses.

  4. 2 Chronicles 34:15 מָצָ֖אתִי ma.Tza.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

  5. 2 Chronicles 34:17 הַנִּמְצָ֣א ha.nim.Tza' · An -ing word: receiving the action

    And they have emptied out the money that was found in the house of Jehovah, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.

  6. 2 Chronicles 34:21 נִמְצָ֑א nim.Tza' · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    Go ye, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Jehovah, to do according unto all that is written in this book.

  7. 2 Chronicles 34:30 הַנִּמְצָ֖א ha.nim.Tza' · An -ing word: receiving the action

    And the king went up to the house of Jehovah, and all the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, both great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of Jehovah.

  8. 2 Chronicles 34:32 הַנִּמְצָ֥א ha.nim.Tza' · An -ing word: receiving the action

    And he caused all that were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

  9. 2 Chronicles 34:33 הַנִּמְצָא֙ ha.nim.Tza' · An -ing word: receiving the action

    And Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that pertained to the children of Israel, and made all that were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Jehovah their God. All his days they departed not from following Jehovah, the God of their fathers.

  10. 2 Chronicles 35:7 הַנִּמְצָ֗א ha.nim.Tza' · An -ing word: receiving the action

    And Josiah gave to the children of the people, of the flock, lambs and kids, all of them for the passover-offerings, unto all that were present, to the number of thirty thousand, and three thousand bullocks: these were of the king's substance.

  11. 2 Chronicles 35:17 הַֽנִּמְצְאִ֛ים ha.nim.tze.'Im · An -ing word: receiving the action

    And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

  12. 2 Chronicles 35:18 הַנִּמְצָ֔א ha.nim.Tza' · An -ing word: receiving the action

    And there was no passover like to that kept in Israel from the days of Samuel the prophet; neither did any of the kings of Israel keep such a passover as Josiah kept, and the priests, and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

  13. 2 Chronicles 36:8 וְהַנִּמְצָ֣א ve.ha.nim.Tza' · An -ing word: receiving the action

    Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim, and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead.

  14. Ezra 2:62 נִמְצָ֑אוּ nim.Tza.'u · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    These sought their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they deemed polluted and put from the priesthood.

  15. Ezra 8:15 מָצָ֥אתִי ma.Tza.ti · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by me

    And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

  16. Ezra 8:25 הַנִּמְצָאִֽים׃ ha.nim.tza.'Im · An -ing word: receiving the action

    and weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering for the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his princes, and all Israel there present, had offered:

  17. Ezra 10:18 וַיִּמָּצֵא֙ vai.yi.ma.Tze' · An action: receiving the action, and then it happened, done by him, her or it

    And among the sons of the priests there were found that had married foreign women: namely, of the sons of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brethren, Maaseiah, and Eliezer, and Jarib, and Gedaliah.

  18. Nehemiah 5:8 מָצְא֖וּ ma.tze.'U · An action: simple action, finished, with a lasting result, done by them

    And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that were sold unto the nations; and would ye even sell your brethren, and should they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

  19. Nehemiah 7:5 וָֽאֶמְצָ֗א va.'em.Tza' · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of them that came up at the first, and I found written therein:

  20. Nehemiah 7:5 וָאֶמְצָ֖א va.'em.Tza' · An action: simple action, and then it happened, done by me

    And my God put into my heart to gather together the nobles, and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of them that came up at the first, and I found written therein:

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