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Deuteronomy 32:10

“He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.” (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: יִמְצָאֵ֨ — verb Qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
הוּ֙ — suffix (pronominal), 3rd person, masculine, singular
Code HVqi3ms/Sp3ms
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.

Verse 9 Verse 11

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.