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1 Chronicles 24:4

“And there were more chief men found of the sons of Eleazar than of the sons of Ithamar; and thus were they divided. Among the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen chief men of the house of their fathers, and eight among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

מָצָאmâtsâʼ · maw-tsaw'
H4672 · Hebrew

Definition: 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
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV renderings: [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.
Grammar: וַ — conjunction
יִּמָּצְא֣וּ — verb Niphal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
Code HC/VNw3mp
Usage: Occurs 457 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:20 Genesis 4:14 Genesis 4:15 Genesis 6:8 Genesis 8:9

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read מָצָא here.

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Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.