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Genesis 16:7
“And the angel of the Lord found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain in the way to Shur.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
מָצָאmâtsâʼ · maw-tsaw'
H4672 · Hebrew
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
- וַֽ — conjunction
- יִּמְצָאָ֞ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- הּ — suffix (pronominal), 3rd person, feminine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 457 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 2:20Genesis 4:14Genesis 4:15Genesis 6:8Genesis 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.
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.