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:
Isaiah 65:1: "I am sought of them that asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold"
Isaiah 65:8: "the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and one saith, Destroy it not;"
Jeremiah 2:5: "What iniquity have your fathers found in me, that they are gone far from"
Jeremiah 2:24: "they that seek her will not weary themselves; in her month they shall find"
Jeremiah 2:26: "As the thief is ashamed when he is found, so is the house of Israel ashamed;"
Jeremiah 2:34: "Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not"
Jeremiah 2:34: "of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search, but upon all"
Jeremiah 5:1: "and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that executeth"
Jeremiah 5:26: "For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set"
Jeremiah 6:16: "where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said,"
Jeremiah 10:18: "once, and will distress them, that they may find"
Jeremiah 11:9: "said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem."
Jeremiah 14:3: "they came to the pits, and found no water; they returned with their vessels"
Jeremiah 15:16: "Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart:"
Jeremiah 23:11: "are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 29:13: "And ye shall seek me, and find me, when ye shall search for me with all your heart."
Jeremiah 29:14: " And I will be found of you, saith the LORD: and I will turn away your captivity, and I will gather you from all"
Jeremiah 31:2: "The people which were left of the sword found grace in the wilderness; even Israel, when I went"
Jeremiah 41:3: "at Mizpah, and the Chaldeans that were found there, and the men of war."
Jeremiah 41:8: "But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not:"
Jeremiah 41:12: "Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and found him by the great waters that"
Jeremiah 45:3: "my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest."
Jeremiah 48:27: "not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since"
Jeremiah 50:7: "All that found them have devoured them: and their adversaries said, We offend not, because"
Jeremiah 50:20: "and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon them whom I reserve."
Jeremiah 50:24: "and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven"
Jeremiah 52:25: "of them that were near the king's person, which were found in the city; and the principal scribe"
Jeremiah 52:25: "and threescore men of the people of the land, that were found in the midst of the city."
Lamentations 1:3: "and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest:"
Lamentations 1:6: "her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without"
Lamentations 2:9: "is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD."
Lamentations 2:16: "this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen"
Ezekiel 3:1: "eat that thou findest; eat this roll,"
Ezekiel 22:30: "the land, that I should not destroy it: but I found none."
Ezekiel 26:21: "and thou shalt be no more: though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord"
Ezekiel 28:15: "from the day that thou wast created, till iniquity was found"
Daniel 1:19: "communed with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah,"
Daniel 1:20: "the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all"
Daniel 11:19: "but he shall stumble and fall, and not be found."
Daniel 12:1: "time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book."
Hosea 2:6: "a wall, that she shall not find her paths."
Hosea 2:7: "overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to"
Hosea 5:6: "the LORD; but they shall not find him; he hath withdrawn himself from"
Hosea 9:10: " I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree"
Hosea 12:4: "and prevailed: he wept, and made supplication unto him: he found him in Bethel, and there he spoke with"
Hosea 12:8: "said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: in all my labors they shall find"
Hosea 12:8: "substance: in all my labors they shall find none iniquity in me that were sin."
Hosea 14:8: "fir tree. From me is thy fruit found."
Amos 8:12: "to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find"
Jonah 1:3: "from the presence of the LORD, and went down to Joppa; and he found a ship going to Tarshish:"
