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)


  • 1 Samuel 13:19 - Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of Israel said for the Philistines make Lest the Hebrews them swords or spears

  • 1 Samuel 13:22 - So it came to pass in the day of battle found that there was neither sword nor spear in the hand of any of the people but with Saul and Jonathan found but with Saul and Jonathan his son

  • 1 Samuel 14:30 - How much more if haply freely freely to day the people of the spoil of their enemies which they found for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines

  • 1 Samuel 16:22 - sent And Saul to Jesse saying I pray thee stand Let David before me for he hath found favour in my sight

  • 1 Samuel 20:3 - sware And David and he saith certainly certainly Thy father that I have found grace in thine eyes and he saith certainly Let not Jonathan this lest he be grieved but truly liveth as the LORD liveth and as thy soul there is but a step between me and death

  • 1 Samuel 20:21 - And behold I will send a lad find out Behold the arrows If I expressly If I expressly a lad Behold the arrows are on this side of thee take them then come thou for there is peace to thee and no hurt liveth as the LORD

  • 1 Samuel 20:29 - And he said Let me go hath a sacrifice I pray thee for our family in the city he hath commanded and my brother me to be there and now if I have found favour in thine eyes let me get away I pray thee and see and my brother Therefore he cometh table not unto the king's

  • 1 Samuel 20:36 - And he said And as the lad Run find out now the arrows he shot And as the lad Run he shot an arrow beyond

  • 1 Samuel 21:3 - Now therefore what is in mine hand me five loaves of bread give in mine hand or what there is present

  • 1 Samuel 23:17 - And he said unto him Fear shall not find not for the hand of Saul my father thee and thou shalt be king over Israel and I shall be next of Saul my father knoweth

  • 1 Samuel 24:19 - find For if a man his enemy will he let him go away thee good wherefore the LORD reward thee good unto me this day for that thou hast done

  • 1 Samuel 25:8 - Ask thee Wherefore let the young men and they will shew I pray thee whatsoever cometh thee Wherefore let the young men favour in thine eyes day in a good for we come give I pray thee whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants and to thy son David

  • 1 Samuel 25:28 - I pray thee forgive the trespass of thine handmaid make make for the LORD because my lord house a sure the battles for the LORD because my lord fighteth and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days

  • 1 Samuel 27:5 - said And David unto Achish If I have now found grace in thine eyes let them give me a place in some city in the country dwell dwell there for why should thy servant city in the royal

  • 1 Samuel 29:3 - Then said the princes of the Philistines What do these Hebrews Then said here And Achish the princes of the Philistines Is not this David the servant of Saul the king of Israel in him since or these years and I have found no fault in him since he fell in him since

  • 1 Samuel 29:6 - called Then Achish David and said liveth unto him Surely as the LORD thou hast been upright favour in my sight and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host for I have not found evil in thee since the day and thy coming in in thee since the day in my sight nevertheless the lords favour

  • 1 Samuel 29:8 - said And David unto Achish But what have I done and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as I have been with thee so long as that I may not go fight against the enemies of my lord the king

  • 1 Samuel 30:11 - And they found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David and gave him bread and he did eat and they made him drink water

  • 1 Samuel 31:3 - went sore And the battle against Saul hit and the archers wounded him and he was sore and the archers

  • 1 Samuel 31:8 - And it came to pass on the morrow came when the Philistines to strip the slain that they found Saul and his three sons fallen in mount Gilboa