Unleavened bread
מַצָּהStrong’s H4682matstsah (mats-tsah)
Appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Matstsah is the Hebrew word usually translated “unleavened bread”. It appears in 42 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he pressed upon them greatly; and they turned in unto him, and entered into his house; and he made them a feast, and did bake unleavened bread, and they did eat.”
Meaning
- Unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven.
How it's translated
- unleavened bread 37
- the unleavened bread 13
- and unleavened bread 2
- and the unleavened bread 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 12
- Leviticus 8
- Numbers 5
- 2 Chronicles 4
- Deuteronomy 3
- Judges 3
13 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 12:8And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
- Exodus 12:15Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
- Exodus 12:17And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
- Exodus 12:18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
- Exodus 12:20Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
- Exodus 12:39And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
All 42 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
מַצָּה matstsah · unleavened bread
unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven.
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.