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:
Deuteronomy 18:10: "There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination,"
Deuteronomy 19:5: "slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbor, that he die; he"
Deuteronomy 20:11: "unto thee, then it shall be, that all the people that is found therein shall be tributaries unto thee, and they shall serve"
Deuteronomy 21:1: "If one be found slain in the land which the LORD thy God giveth"
Deuteronomy 21:17: "portion of all that he hath: for he is the beginning of his strength;"
Deuteronomy 22:3: "of thy brother's, which he hath lost, and thou hast found, shalt thou do likewise: thou mayest not"
Deuteronomy 22:14: "woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:"
Deuteronomy 22:17: "occasions of speech against her, saying, I found not thy daughter a maid; and yet these"
Deuteronomy 22:20: "true, and the tokens of virginity be not found for the damsel:"
Deuteronomy 22:22: "If a man be found lying with a woman married to a husband,"
Deuteronomy 22:23: "betrothed unto a husband, and a man find her in the city, and lie with"
Deuteronomy 22:25: "But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man"
Deuteronomy 22:27: "For he found her in the field, and the betrothed damsel cried, and there was none to save"
Deuteronomy 22:28: "If a man find a damsel that is a virgin, which is not betrothed,"
Deuteronomy 22:28: "and lay hold on her, and lie with her, and they be found;"
Deuteronomy 24:1: "and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favor in his eyes, because"
Deuteronomy 24:1: "favor in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill"
Deuteronomy 24:7: "If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children"
Deuteronomy 31:17: "and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not"
Deuteronomy 31:17: "Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not"
Deuteronomy 31:21: "many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against"
Deuteronomy 32:10: " He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed"
Joshua 2:22: "sought them throughout all the way, but found them not."
Joshua 2:23: "of Nun, and told him all things that befell"
Joshua 10:17: "saying, The five kings are found hid in a cave at Makkedah."
Joshua 17:16: "said, The hill is not enough for us: and all the Canaanites that dwell in the land"
Judges 1:5: " And they found Adoni-bezek in Bezek: and they fought against him, and they slew the Canaanites"
Judges 5:30: "Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two;"
Judges 6:13: "us, why then is all this befallen us? and where be all his miracles which"
Judges 6:17: "unto him, If now I have found grace in thy sight, then show me a sign"
Judges 9:33: "against thee, then mayest thou do to them as thou shalt find occasion."
Judges 14:12: "ye can certainly declare it me within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty sheets"
Judges 14:18: "And he said unto them, If ye had not plowed with my heifer, ye had not found out my riddle."
Judges 15:15: " And he found a new jawbone of an ass, and put forth his hand, and took it, and slew"
Judges 17:8: "out of the city from Bethlehem-judah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came"
Judges 17:9: "of Bethlehem-judah, and I go to sojourn where I may find"
Judges 20:48: "of every city, as the beast, and all that came to hand: also they set on fire"
Judges 20:48: "they set on fire all the cities that they came to."
Judges 21:12: " And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young"
Judges 21:14: "of the women of Jabesh-gilead: and yet so they sufficed them not."
Ruth 1:9: "The LORD grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed"
Ruth 2:2: "ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go,"
Ruth 2:10: "and said unto him, Why have I found grace in thine eyes, that thou shouldest take knowledge of me, seeing I"
Ruth 2:13: "Then she said, Let me find favor in thy sight, my lord; for that thou hast comforted me, and for that"
1 Samuel 1:18: "And she said, Let thine handmaid find grace in thy sight. So the woman went her way,"
1 Samuel 9:4: "and passed through the land of Shalisha, but they found them not: then they passed through the land of Shalim,"
1 Samuel 9:4: "and he passed through the land of the Benjamites, but they found them not."
1 Samuel 9:8: "again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver:"
1 Samuel 9:11: "the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water,"
1 Samuel 9:13: "As soon as ye be come into the city, ye shall straightway find him, before he go up to the high place to eat:"
