Strong's H4682
מַצָּה
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- Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament)
Definition
properly, sweetness; concretely, sweet (i.e. not soured or bittered with yeast); specifically, an unfermented cake or loaf, or (elliptically) the festival of Passover (because no leaven was then used)
Derivation
from H4711 (מָצַץ) in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness;
KJV Translation
In the King James Version, מַצָּה is translated as: unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven..
About Strong's Concordance
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance, compiled by James Strong in 1890, assigns a unique number to every Hebrew and Aramaic root word in the Old Testament. The Hebrew dictionary covers all 8,674 root words. This entry is in the public domain.