Hebrew Lexicon Strong's Concordance Definition

Strong's H4672: מָצָא (mâtsâʼ) Definition

Strong's number
H4672
Lemma
מָצָא
Transliteration
mâtsâʼ
Pronunciation
maw-tsaw'
Strong's 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 [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. a primitive root;

425 instances of the word מָצָא mâtsâʼ (H4672)


  • Joshua 2:23 - returned So the two and descended from the mountain and passed over and came to Joshua the son of Nun and told him all things that befell

  • Joshua 10:17 - And it was told Joshua saying are found The five kings hid in a cave at Makkedah

  • Joshua 17:16 - said And the children of Joseph is not enough The hill have chariots of iron for us and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land and they who are of the valley both they who are of Bethshean and her towns and they who are of the valley of Jezreel

  • Judges 1:5 - And they found Adonibezek in Bezek and they fought against him and they slew the Canaanites and the Perizzites

  • Judges 5:30 - Have they not sped have they not divided a prey a damsel or two to every man a prey of divers colours to Sisera a prey of divers colours of needlework of divers colours of needlework meet for the necks a prey

  • Judges 6:13 - said And Gideon unto him Oh my Lord if Did not the LORD be with us why then is all this befallen us and where be all his miracles told which our fathers said from Egypt bring us up Did not the LORD hath forsaken Did not the LORD us and delivered us into the hands of the Midianites

  • Judges 6:17 - And he said unto him If now I have found grace in thy sight then shew me a sign that thou talkest

  • Judges 9:33 - And it shall be that in the morning is up as soon as the sun thou shalt rise early and set upon the city and behold when he and the people that is with him come out against thee then mayest thou do shalt find occasion to them as thou

  • Judges 14:12 - said And Samson unto them I will now put forth a riddle declare declare it me within the seven days of the feast and find it out then I will give and thirty sheets and thirty change of garments

  • Judges 14:18 - And he said of the city day unto him on the seventh went down before the sun What is sweeter than honey and what is stronger than a lion And he said unto them If ye had not plowed with my heifer ye had not found out my riddle

  • Judges 15:15 - And he found jawbone of an ass a new and put forth his hand and took it and slew a thousand men

  • Judges 17:8 - And the man out of the city from Bethlehemjudah to sojourn where he could find a place and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah as he journeyed

  • Judges 17:9 - said And Micah unto him Whence comest said unto him I am a Levite of Bethlehemjudah and I go to sojourn where I may find

  • Judges 20:48 - And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin and smote them with the edge of the sword all the cities as well the men as the beast as and all that came to hand all the cities and all that came to hand also they set on fire

  • Judges 21:12 - And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins that had known no man by lying with any male and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh which is in the land of Canaan

  • Judges 21:14 - came again And Benjamin at that time and they gave of the women which they had saved alive of the women of Jabeshgilead and yet so they sufficed

  • Lamentations 1:3 - is gone into captivity Judah because of affliction and because of great servitude she dwelleth among the heathen she findeth no rest all her persecutors overtook her between the straits

  • Lamentations 1:6 - is departed And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty her princes are become like harts that find no pasture without strength before the pursuer

  • Lamentations 2:9 - are sunk into the ground Her gates he hath destroyed and broken her bars her king and her princes are among the Gentiles the law is no more her prophets also find no vision from the LORD

  • Lamentations 2:16 - have opened their mouth All thine enemies against thee they hiss and gnash the teeth they say We have swallowed her up certainly this is the day that we looked for we have found we have seen