Strong's #4672: matsa' (pronounced maw-tsaw')
a primitive root; 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:--+ be able, befall, being, catch, X certainly, (cause to) come (on, to, to hand), deliver, be enough (cause to) find(-ing, occasion, out), get (hold upon), X have (here), be here, hit, be left, light (up-)on, meet (with), X occasion serve, (be) present, ready, speed, suffice, take hold on.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
mâtsâ'
1) to find, attain to
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to find
1a1a) to find, secure, acquire, get (thing sought)
1a1b) to find (what is lost)
1a1c) to meet, encounter
1a1d) to find (a condition)
1a1e) to learn, devise
1a2) to find out
1a2a) to find out
1a2b) to detect
1a2c) to guess
1a3) to come upon, light upon
1a3a) to happen upon, meet, fall in with
1a3b) to hit
1a3c) to befall
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to be found
1b1a) to be encountered, be lighted upon, be discovered
1b1b) to appear, be recognised
1b1c) to be discovered, be detected
1b1d) to be gained, be secured
1b2) to be, be found
1b2a) to be found in
1b2b) to be in the possession of
1b2c) to be found in (a place), happen to be
1b2d) to be left (after war)
1b2e) to be present
1b2f) to prove to be
1b2g) to be found sufficient, be enough
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to cause to find, attain
1c2) to cause to light upon, come upon, come
1c3) to cause to encounter
1c4) to present (offering)
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 455 times:
Genesis 2:20: "of the field; but for Adam there was not found a help meet for him."
Genesis 4:14: "and I shall be a fugitive and a vagabond in the earth; and it shall come to pass, that every one that findeth me shall slay"
Genesis 4:15: "upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill"
Genesis 6:8: "But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD."
Genesis 8:9: "But the dove found no rest for the sole of her foot, and she returned unto"
Genesis 11:2: "And it came to pass, as they journeyed from the east, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar;"
Genesis 16:7: "And the angel of the LORD found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by"
Genesis 18:3: "My Lord, if now I have found favor in thy sight, pass not away,"
Genesis 18:26: "And the LORD said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within"
Genesis 18:28: "for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not"
Genesis 18:29: "and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do"
Genesis 18:30: "and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do"
Genesis 18:30: "I will not do it, if I find thirty there."
Genesis 18:31: "the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy"
Genesis 18:32: "but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy"
Genesis 19:11: "both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door."
Genesis 19:15: "thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city."
Genesis 19:19: "Behold now, thy servant hath found grace in thy sight, and thou hast magnified thy mercy,"
Genesis 26:12: "sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold:"
Genesis 26:19: "servants digged in the valley, and found there a well of springing water."
Genesis 26:32: "the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water."
Genesis 27:20: "his son, How is it that thou hast found it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because"
Genesis 30:14: "in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto"
Genesis 30:27: "unto him, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thine eyes, tarry: for I have learned by experience that the LORD"
Genesis 31:32: "With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before"
Genesis 31:33: "and into the two maidservants' tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah's tent,"
Genesis 31:34: "all the tent, but found them not."
Genesis 31:35: "before thee; for the custom of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not"
Genesis 31:37: "all my stuff, what hast thou found of all thy household stuff?"
Genesis 32:5: "and I have sent to tell my lord, that I may find grace in thy sight."
Genesis 32:19: "manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find"
Genesis 33:8: "which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord."
Genesis 33:10: "I pray thee, if now I have found grace in thy sight, then receive my present"
Genesis 33:15: "me. And he said, What needeth it? let me find grace in the sight of my lord."
Genesis 34:11: "her father and unto her brethren, Let me find grace in your eyes, and what ye shall say"
Genesis 36:24: "this was that Anah that found the mules in the wilderness, as he fed"
Genesis 37:15: "And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying,"
Genesis 37:17: "And Joseph went after his brethren, and found them in Dothan."
Genesis 37:32: "their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son's"
Genesis 38:20: "to receive his pledge from the woman's hand: but he found her not."
Genesis 38:22: "Judah, and said, I cannot find her; and also the men of the place said,"
Genesis 38:23: "kid, and thou hast not found"
Genesis 39:4: "And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house,"
Genesis 41:38: "said unto his servants, Can we find such a one as this is, a man in whom the Spirit"
Genesis 44:8: "Behold, the money, which we found in our sacks' mouths, we brought again unto"
Genesis 44:9: "With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also"
Genesis 44:10: "let it be according unto your words: he with whom it is found shall be my servant; and ye"
Genesis 44:12: "and left at the youngest: and the cup was found in Benjamin's sack."
Genesis 44:16: "or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants: behold,"
Genesis 44:16: "and he also with whom the cup is found."
