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Exodus 13:7

“Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

מַצָּהmatstsâh · mats-tsaw'
H4682 · Hebrew

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;
KJV renderings: unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven.
Grammar: מַצּוֹת֙ — common noun, feminine, plural, absolute
Code HNcfpa
Usage: Occurs 53 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 19:3 Exodus 12:8 Exodus 12:15 Exodus 12:17 Exodus 12:18

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 מַצָּה 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.