H4672 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)


  • Proverbs 17:20 - He that hath a froward heart findeth no good and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief

  • 1 Chronicles 17:25 - For thou O my God hast told therefore thy servant that thou wilt build him an house hath found therefore thy servant in his heart to pray before

  • Genesis 18:3 - And said if now I have found favour in thy sight pass not away I pray thee from thy servant

  • 1 Kings 18:5 - said And Ahab unto Obadiah into the land unto all fountains of water and unto all brooks peradventure we may find grass alive the horses and mules that we lose not all the beasts

  • Exodus 18:8 - told And Moses his father in law had done all that the LORD unto Pharaoh and to the Egyptians sake for Israel's and all the travail that had come upon them by the way delivered all that the LORD

  • Deuteronomy 18:10 - There shall not be found to pass among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter through the fire divination or that useth or an observer of times or an enchanter or a witch

  • 1 Kings 18:10 - liveth As the LORD thy God there is no and nation of the kingdom whither hath not sent my lord to seek thee and when they said He is not there he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they found

  • 1 Kings 18:12 - from thee that the Spirit of the LORD shall carry thee whither I know not and so when I come and tell Ahab and he cannot find thee he shall slay me but I thy servant fear of the LORD from my youth

  • 2 Kings 18:15 - gave And Hezekiah him all the silver that was found house of the LORD and in the treasures house of the king's

  • 2 Samuel 18:22 - yet again Ahimaaz my son of Zadok Then said And Joab But howsoever Wherefore wilt thou run after Cushi Then said And Joab But howsoever Wherefore wilt thou run my son seeing that thou hast no tidings ready

  • Proverbs 18:22 - Whoso findeth a wife Whoso findeth a good thing and obtaineth favour of the LORD

  • Genesis 18:26 - said And the LORD If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city then I will spare all the place

  • Genesis 18:28 - Peradventure there shall lack of the fifty righteous and five I will not destroy and five all the city And he said I will not destroy If I find there forty and five

  • Genesis 18:29 - unto him yet again And he spake and said found Peradventure there shall be forty and said I will not do Peradventure there shall be forty

  • Genesis 18:30 - And he said unto him Oh be angry let not the Lord and I will speak be found Peradventure there shall thirty And he said I will not do be found Peradventure there shall thirty

  • Genesis 18:31 - And he said Behold now I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord found Peradventure there shall be twenty And he said I will not destroy Peradventure there shall be twenty

  • Genesis 18:32 - And he said be angry Oh let not the Lord and I will speak yet but this once shall be found Peradventure ten And he said I will not destroy Peradventure ten

  • 2 Chronicles 19:3 - Nevertheless things there are good found in thee in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land and hast prepared thine heart to seek God

  • 2 Kings 19:4 - It may be hath heard the LORD God all the words of Rabshakeh hath sent whom the king of Assyria his master to reproach God the living and will reprove all the words hath heard the LORD God wherefore lift up thy prayer for the remnant that are left

  • Deuteronomy 19:5 - As when a man goeth upon his neighbour into the wood to hew from the helve fetcheth a stroke and his hand with the axe to cut down from the helve slippeth and the head from the helve and lighteth upon his neighbour that he die he shall flee unto one of those cities and live

  • 2 Kings 19:8 - returned So Rabshakeh and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish

  • Proverbs 19:8 - He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul he that keepeth understanding shall find good

  • Genesis 19:11 - that were at the door of the house And they smote with blindness both small and great so that they wearied themselves to find that were at the door

  • Genesis 19:15 - And when the morning arose hastened then the angels Lot saying Arise take thy wife and thy two daughters which are here lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city

  • Genesis 19:19 - hath found Behold now thy servant grace in thy sight and thou hast magnified thy mercy which thou hast shewed unto me in saving my life and I cannot escape to the mountain take lest some evil me and I die

  • 1 Kings 19:19 - thence and found Elisha the son of Shaphat who was plowing him and he with the twelfth yoke of oxen before him and he with the twelfth passed and Elijah by him and cast his mantle

  • Job 19:28 - But ye should say Why persecute we him seeing the root of the matter is found

  • 1 Chronicles 20:2 - took And David the crown of their king from off his head and found it to weigh a talent of gold stones and there were precious from off his head And David spoil out of the city and he brought much also exceeding

  • 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

  • 2 Samuel 20:6 - said And David to Abishai do us more harm Now shall Sheba the son of Bichri than did Absalom take servants thou thy lord's and pursue after him lest he get cities him fenced and escape us

  • Proverbs 20:6 - Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness every one but a faithful who can find

  • Job 20:8 - as a dream He shall fly away and shall not be found yea he shall be chased away as a vision of the night

  • Deuteronomy 20:11 - of peace And it shall be if it make thee answer and open unto thee then it shall be that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee and they shall serve

  • 2 Kings 20:13 - hearkened And Hezekiah shewed and all the house of his precious things the silver and the gold and the spices ointment and the precious and all the house of his armour and all that was found in his treasures there was nothing shewed And Hezekiah and all the house nor in all his dominion

  • Numbers 20:14 - sent And Moses messengers from Kadesh unto the king of Edom Thus saith thy brother Israel Thou knowest all the travail that hath befallen

  • 2 Chronicles 20:16 - To morrow go ye down against them behold they come up by the cliff of Ziz and ye shall find them at the end of the brook before the wilderness of Jeruel

  • 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

  • 2 Chronicles 20:25 - came And when Jehoshaphat and his people in gathering of the spoil of them they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies jewels which they stripped off for themselves more than they could carry away days and they were three in gathering of the spoil it was so much

  • 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 Kings 20:36 - Then said he unto him Because thou hast not obeyed the voice of the LORD behold as soon as thou art departed him and slew a lion behold as soon as thou art departed from him found a lion him and slew

  • 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 Kings 20:37 - Then he found man another and said Smite Smite man Smite he wounded

  • 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

  • Deuteronomy 21:1 - If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it lying in the field and it be not known who hath slain

  • 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

  • Psalms 21:8 - shall find out Thine hand all thine enemies thy right hand shall find out those that hate

  • 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

  • Exodus 21:16 - And he that stealeth a man and selleth him or if he be found in his hand be put to death be put to death

  • Deuteronomy 21:17 - for the firstborn the son of the hated But he shall acknowledge by giving portion him a double of all that he hath for he is the beginning of his strength the right of the firstborn

  • 2 Chronicles 21:17 - And they came up into Judah and brake into it and carried away all the substance that was found house in the king's and his sons also and his wives left and his sons him save Jehoahaz the youngest and his sons

  • 1 Kings 21:20 - And he answered And Ahab to Elijah Hast thou found me O mine enemy And he answered Hast thou found thee because thou hast sold thyself to work evil in the sight of the LORD

  • Proverbs 21:21 - He that followeth after righteousness and mercy findeth life after righteousness and honour

  • Exodus 22:2 - breaking up be found If a thief and be smitten that he die there shall no blood

  • Deuteronomy 22:3 - In like manner and so shalt thou do with his ass In like manner and so shalt thou do with his raiment In like manner and so shalt thou do and with all lost thing of thy brother's which he hath lost and thou hast found likewise thou mayest not hide

  • Isaiah 22:3 - All thy rulers are fled together by the archers in thee are bound all that are found in thee are bound together from far which have fled

  • Exodus 22:4 - be certainly be certainly in his hand If the theft whether it be ox or ass or sheep alive double he shall restore

  • Exodus 22:6 - break out If fire and catch in thorns be consumed so that the stacks of corn or the standing corn or the field make restitution make restitution therewith he that kindled the fire

  • Exodus 22:7 - shall deliver If a man unto his neighbour money or stuff to keep and it be stolen house If a man be found if the thief let him pay double

  • Exodus 22:8 - be not found If the thief shall be brought then the master of the house unto the judges be not to see whether he have put his hand goods unto his neighbour's

  • 2 Chronicles 22:8 - was executing judgment And it came to pass that when Jehu upon the house of Ahab and found the princes of Judah and the sons of the brethren of Ahaziah that ministered of Ahaziah he slew

  • 2 Kings 22:8 - said And Hilkiah priest the high to Shaphan the scribe the book of the law I have found in the house of the LORD gave And Hilkiah the book to Shaphan and he read

  • 2 Kings 22:9 - came And Shaphan the scribe the king again the king word and said have gathered Thy servants the money that was found in the house and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work that have the oversight in the house of the LORD

  • 2 Kings 22:13 - ye enquire of the LORD for me and for the people and for all Judah concerning the words of this book that is found for great is the wrath of the LORD that is kindled have not hearkened against us because our fathers concerning the words of this book to do according unto all that which is written

  • Deuteronomy 22:14 - And give occasions of speech against her and bring up name an evil upon her and say this woman I took and when I came to her I found her not a maid

  • Deuteronomy 22:17 - And lo he hath given occasions of speech against her saying I found and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's a maid a maid and yet these are the tokens of my daughter's And they shall spread the cloth before the elders of the city

  • Deuteronomy 22:20 - be true But if this thing be not found and the tokens of virginity for the damsel

  • Deuteronomy 22:22 - be found If a man lying and the woman married to an husband die then they shall both of them If a man lying and the woman and the woman so shalt thou put away evil from Israel

  • Deuteronomy 22:23 - If a damsel that is a virgin be betrothed and a man find and a man her in the city and lie

  • Deuteronomy 22:25 - in the field find But if a man damsel a betrothed force But if a man her and lie with her shall die But if a man her and lie

  • Deuteronomy 22:27 - her in the field For he found cried damsel and the betrothed and there was none to save

  • Deuteronomy 22:28 - find If a man a damsel that is a virgin which is not betrothed and lay hold on her and lie find

  • Ezekiel 22:30 - And I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it but I found

  • 2 Kings 23:2 - went up And the king in the house of the LORD and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him and the priests and the prophets and all the people both small and great and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the LORD

  • Job 23:3 - Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat

  • Jeremiah 23:11 - For both prophet and priest are profane yea in my house have I found their wickedness saith the LORD

  • 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

  • 2 Kings 23:24 - Moreover the workers with familiar spirits and the wizards and the images and the idols and all the abominations that were spied in the land of Judah and in Jerusalem put away did Josiah that he might perform the words of the law which were written in the book found that Hilkiah the priest in the house of the LORD

  • Deuteronomy 24:1 - hath taken When a man a wife and married because he hath found no favour in his eyes because he hath found uncleanness some in her then let him write her a bill of divorcement and give it in her hand and send her out of his house

  • 1 Chronicles 24:4 - found Among the sons of Eleazar And there were more chief men Among the sons of Ithamar and thus were they divided Among the sons of Eleazar chief according to the house of their fathers there were sixteen Among the sons of Ithamar according to the house of their fathers and eight

  • Deuteronomy 24:7 - be found If a man stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel and maketh merchandise of him or selleth shall die him then that thief and thou shalt put evil from among

  • Proverbs 24:14 - So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul when thou hast found it then there shall be a reward and thy expectation shall not be cut off

  • 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

  • 2 Chronicles 25:5 - gathered Moreover Amaziah Judah and made according to the houses of their fathers and captains over thousands and captains hundred Judah and Benjamin and he numbered old them from twenty years and above and found them three hundred over thousands choice men able to go forth to war that could handle spear and shield

  • 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

  • Proverbs 25:16 - honey Hast thou found eat so much as is sufficient for thee lest thou be filled therewith and vomit

  • 2 Kings 25:19 - And out of the city he took officer an that was set men of war and five men of them that were presence in the king's that were found And out of the city scribe and the principal of the host which mustered of the people of the land and threescore men of the people of the land that were found And out of the city

  • 2 Chronicles 25:24 - And he took all the gold and the silver and all the vessels that were found house of God with Obededom and the treasures house of the king's the hostages also and returned to Samaria

  • Leviticus 25:26 - And if the man have none to redeem it and himself to redeem be able

  • 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

  • Leviticus 25:28 - to restore But if he be not able and he shall return it to him then that which is sold But if he of him that hath bought it until the year and in the jubile it shall go out and in the jubile and he shall return unto his possession

  • Genesis 26:12 - sowed Then Isaac in that land and received in the same year an hundredfold blessed and the LORD

  • Genesis 26:19 - digged servants And Isaac's in the valley and found there a well water of springing

  • Ezekiel 26:21 - thee a terror I will make and thou shalt be no more though thou be sought for be found yet shalt thou never again saith the Lord GOD

  • 1 Chronicles 26:31 - Among the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief Among the Hebronites according to the generations of his fathers year In the fortieth of the reign of David they were sought for and there were found among them mighty men of valour at Jazer of Gilead

  • Genesis 26:32 - And it came to pass the same day came servants that Isaac's and told him concerning the well which they had digged and said unto him We have found water

  • 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

  • Genesis 27:20 - And he said And Isaac my son it so quickly How is it that thou hast found my son And he said brought Because the LORD thy God it to me

  • 1 Chronicles 28:9 - And thou Solomon my son know thou the God of thy father and serve heart him with a perfect mind and with a willing all hearts if thou seek for the LORD all the imaginations of the thoughts and understandeth if thou seek him he will be found of thee but if thou forsake him he will cast thee off for ever

  • Job 28:12 - shall wisdom But where be found and where is the place of understanding