Strongs Number: H4682
- Hebrew Word
- מַצָּה
- Transliteration
- matstsâh
- Phonetic
- mats-tsaw'
- Part of Speech
- Strongs Definition
-
properly sweetness; concretely sweet (that {is} not soured or bittered with yeast); specifically an unfermented cake or {loaf} or (elliptically) the festival of Passover (because no leaven was then used)
- BDB Definition
-
1. unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven.
- Origin
- From H4711 in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness
- Bible Usage
- unleavened ({bread} {cake}) without leaven.