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Song of Solomon 5:7

“The watchmen that went about the city found me, they smote me, they wounded me; the keepers of the walls took away my veil from me.” (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: מְצָאֻ֧ — verb Qal, perfect, 3rd person, common, plural
נִי — suffix (pronominal), 1st person, common, singular
Code HVqp3cp/Sp1cs
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.