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:
1 Samuel 9:13: "Now therefore get you up; for about this time ye shall find"
1 Samuel 9:20: "thy mind on them; for they are found. And on whom is all the desire of Israel?"
1 Samuel 10:2: "When thou art departed from me today, then thou shalt find two men by"
1 Samuel 10:2: "thee, The asses which thou wentest to seek are found: and, lo, thy father hath left"
1 Samuel 10:3: "to the plain of Tabor, and there shall meet thee three men going up"
1 Samuel 10:7: "signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God"
1 Samuel 10:16: "He told us plainly that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, whereof"
1 Samuel 10:21: "was taken: and when they sought him, he could not be found."
1 Samuel 12:5: "day, that ye have not found aught in my hand. And they answered, He is witness."
1 Samuel 13:15: "numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men."
1 Samuel 13:16: "and Jonathan his son, and the people that were present with them, abode in Gibeah of Benjamin:"
1 Samuel 13:19: "Now there was no blacksmith found throughout all the land of Israel: for the Philistines"
1 Samuel 13:22: "that there was neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people that"
1 Samuel 13:22: "but with Saul and with Jonathan his son was there found."
1 Samuel 14:30: "had eaten freely today of the spoil of their enemies which they found?"
1 Samuel 16:22: "stand before me; for he hath found favor in my sight."
1 Samuel 20:3: "Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith,"
1 Samuel 20:21: "a lad, saying, Go, find out the arrows. If I expressly say"
1 Samuel 20:29: "hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favor in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee,"
1 Samuel 20:36: "And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which"
1 Samuel 21:3: "loaves of bread in mine hand, or what there is present."
1 Samuel 23:17: "of Saul my father shall not find thee; and thou shalt be king over Israel,"
1 Samuel 24:19: "For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away?"
1 Samuel 25:8: "thy young men, and they will show thee. Wherefore let the young men find favor in thine eyes: for we come"
1 Samuel 25:8: "I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David."
1 Samuel 25:28: "the battles of the LORD, and evil hath not been found in thee all thy days."
1 Samuel 27:5: "Achish, If I have now found grace in thine eyes, let them give me a place"
1 Samuel 29:3: "or these years, and I have found no fault in him since"
1 Samuel 29:6: "is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day"
1 Samuel 29:8: "what have I done? and what hast thou found in thy servant so long as"
1 Samuel 30:11: " And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave"
1 Samuel 31:3: "against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers."
1 Samuel 31:8: "came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his three"
2 Samuel 3:8: "and to his friends, and have not delivered thee into the hand of David, that thou chargest"
2 Samuel 7:27: "I will build thee a house: therefore hath thy servant found in his heart"
2 Samuel 14:22: "thy servant knoweth that I have found grace in thy sight, my lord, O king,"
2 Samuel 15:25: "of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of the LORD, he will bring me again,"
2 Samuel 16:4: "And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I may find grace in thy sight, my lord, O king."
2 Samuel 17:12: "him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as"
2 Samuel 17:13: "until there be not one small stone found there."
2 Samuel 17:20: "of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem."
2 Samuel 18:22: "wilt thou run, my son, seeing that thou hast no tidings ready?"
2 Samuel 20:6: "and pursue after him, lest he get him fenced cities, and escape"
1 Kings 1:3: "throughout all the coasts of Israel, and found Abishag a Shunammite, and brought"
1 Kings 1:52: "him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die."
1 Kings 11:19: "And Hadad found great favor in the sight of Pharaoh, so that he gave him to wife"
1 Kings 11:29: "of Jerusalem, that the prophet Ahijah the Shilonite found him in the way; and he had clad himself"
1 Kings 13:14: "after the man of God, and found him sitting under an oak: and he said"
1 Kings 13:24: "And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcass was cast"
1 Kings 13:28: "And he went and found his carcass cast in the way, and the ass and the lion"
