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KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

 

Hebrew - English Dictionary

H4682 - Leaven

Strong's No.:H4682

Hebrew:מַצָּה

Transliteration:matstsâh

Phonetic:mats-tsaw'

Word Origin:From H4711 in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness

Bible Usage:unleavened ({bread} {cake}) without leaven.

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)


Brown Driver
Biggs Definition:

1. unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven.


Bible References:
Leaven

Translation
Occurrences:
bread ( 34 )
cakes ( 5 )
leaven ( 1 )
unleavened ( 13 )

 

Definitions are taken from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
by James Strong (S.T.D.) (LL.D.) 1890.