מַצָּהmatstsâh

unleavened bread, or cake(s) (Leviticus 2:5; Leviticus 8:26; Numbers 6:19; Exodus 12:15; Exodus 12:18)

Pronunciation: mats-tsaw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H4682

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 53 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 19:3 But Lot insisted, so at last they went home with him. Lot prepared a feast for them, complete with fresh bread made without yeast, and they ate.
  • Exodus 12:8 That same night they must roast the meat over a fire and eat it along with bitter salad greens and bread made without yeast.
  • Exodus 12:15 For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. On the first day of the festival, remove every trace of yeast from your homes. Anyone who eats bread made with yeast during the seven days of the festival will be cut off from the community of Israel.
  • Exodus 12:17 “Celebrate this Festival of Unleavened Bread, for it will remind you that I brought your forces out of the land of Egypt on this very day. This festival will be a permanent law for you; celebrate this day from generation to generation.
  • Exodus 12:18 The bread you eat must be made without yeast from the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month until the evening of the twenty-first day of that month.
  • Exodus 12:20 During those days you must not eat anything made with yeast. Wherever you live, eat only bread made without yeast.”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).