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:
2 Chronicles 19:3: "Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves"
2 Chronicles 20:16: "they come up by the cliff of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the brook, before the wilderness"
2 Chronicles 20:25: "to take away the spoil of them, they found among them in abundance both riches with the dead bodies, and precious"
2 Chronicles 21:17: "all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also,"
2 Chronicles 22:8: "upon the house of Ahab, and found the princes of Judah, and the sons"
2 Chronicles 25:5: "and he numbered them from twenty years old and above, and found them three"
2 Chronicles 25:24: "and all the vessels that were found in the house of God with Obed-edom,"
2 Chronicles 29:16: "all the uncleanness that they found in the temple of the LORD into the court of the house"
2 Chronicles 29:29: "of offering, the king and all that were present with him bowed themselves, and worshiped."
2 Chronicles 30:21: "And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread"
2 Chronicles 31:1: "was finished, all Israel that were present went out to the cities of Judah, and broke the images in pieces,"
2 Chronicles 32:4: "should the kings of Assyria come, and find much water?"
2 Chronicles 34:14: "of the LORD, Hilkiah the priest found a book of the law of the LORD"
2 Chronicles 34:15: "to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 34:17: "And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into"
2 Chronicles 34:21: "the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the LORD"
2 Chronicles 34:30: "all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the LORD."
2 Chronicles 34:32: "And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem"
2 Chronicles 34:33: "of Israel, and made all that were present in Israel to serve, even to serve"
2 Chronicles 35:7: "and kids, all for the passover offerings, for all that were present, to the number of thirty"
2 Chronicles 35:17: "And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time,"
2 Chronicles 35:18: "and the Levites, and all Judah and Israel that were present, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem."
2 Chronicles 36:8: "and his abominations which he did, and that which was found in him, behold, they are written in"
Ezra 2:62: "their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but they were not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood."
Ezra 8:15: "and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons"
Ezra 8:25: "and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:"
Ezra 10:18: "And among the sons of the priests there were found that had taken strange wives:"
Nehemiah 5:8: "your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing"
Nehemiah 7:5: "and the rulers, and the people, that they might be reckoned by genealogy. And I found a register of the genealogy of them which came up at the first,"
Nehemiah 7:5: "of the genealogy of them which came up at the first, and found written"
Nehemiah 7:64: "their register among those that were reckoned by genealogy, but it was not found: therefore were they, as polluted, put from the priesthood."
Nehemiah 8:14: " And they found written in the law which the LORD had commanded by Moses,"
Nehemiah 9:8: " And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest a covenant with"
Nehemiah 9:32: "seem little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets,"
Nehemiah 13:1: "of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite"
Esther 1:5: "a feast unto all the people that were present in Shushan the palace, both unto great"
Esther 2:23: "And when inquisition was made of the matter, it was found out; therefore they were both hanged on a tree: and it was written"
Esther 4:16: "all the Jews that are present in Shushan, and fast ye for me, and neither"
Esther 5:8: "If I have found favor in the sight of the king, and if it please"
Esther 6:2: " And it was found written, that Mordecai had told of Bigthana and Teresh,"
Esther 7:3: "answered and said, If I have found favor in thy sight, O king, and if"
Esther 8:5: "it please the king, and if I have found favor in his sight, and the thing"
Esther 8:6: "to see the evil that shall come unto my people? or how can I endure"
Job 3:22: "exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?"
Job 11:7: "Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?"
Job 11:7: "Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?"
Job 17:10: "and come now: for I cannot find one wise"
Job 19:28: "persecute we him, seeing the root of the matter is found"
Job 20:8: "He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night."
Job 23:3: "Oh that I knew where I might find him! that I might come even to his seat!"
