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H4672מָצָאma.tsa

to findPart of speech: Hebrew Verb

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Occurrences by book

  1. 56
  2. 22
  3. 8
  4. 11
  5. 25
  6. 4
  7. 14
  8. 4
  9. 39
  10. 10
  11. 16
  12. 25
  13. 11
  14. 28
  15. 4
  16. 8
  17. 8
  18. 19
  19. 19
  20. 27
  21. 17
  22. 9
  23. 18
  24. 26
  25. 4
  26. 4
  27. 4
  28. 8
  29. Joel: 0
  30. 1
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. 1
  33. 1
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. 1
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. 2
  39. 1

Renderings

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455 occurrences in 425 verses

With their references and text in JPS Tanakh 1917.

  1. Lamentations 1:6

    And gone is from the daughter of Zion all her splendour; her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

    מָצְא֣וּ ma.tze.'U “they have found”

  2. Lamentations 2:9

    Her gates are sunk into the ground; He hath destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes are among the nations, instruction is no more; yea, her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

    מָצְא֥וּ ma.tze.'U “they have found”

  3. Lamentations 2:16

    All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee; they hiss and gnash the teeth; they say: 'We have swallowed her up; certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.'

    מָצָ֥אנוּ ma.Tza.nu “we have found”

  4. Ezekiel 3:1

    And He said unto me: 'Son of man, eat that which thou findest; eat this roll, and go, speak unto the house of Israel.'

    תִּמְצָ֖א tim.Tza' “you find”

  5. Ezekiel 22:30

    And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, and stand in the breach before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.

    מָצָֽאתִי׃ ma.Tza.ti “I found [anyone]”

  6. Ezekiel 26:21

    I will make thee a terror, and thou shalt be no more; though thou be sought for, yet shalt thou never be found again, saith the Lord GOD.'

    תִמָּצְאִ֥י ti.ma.tze.'I “you will be found”

  7. Ezekiel 28:15

    Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.

    נִמְצָ֥א nim.Tza' “it was found”

  8. Daniel 1:19

    And the king spoke with them; and among them all was found none like Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah; therefore stood they before the king.

    נִמְצָא֙ nim.Tza' “he was found”

  9. Daniel 1:20

    And in all matters of wisdom and understanding, that the king inquired of them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters that were in all his realm.

    וַֽיִּמְצָאֵ֞ם (יִּמְצָאֵ֞) i.yim.tza.'E “he found”

  10. Daniel 11:19

    Then he shall turn his face toward the strongholds of his own land; but he shall stumble and fall, and shall not be found.

    יִמָּצֵֽא׃ yi.ma.Tze' “he will be found”

  11. Daniel 12:1

    And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince who standeth for the children of thy people; and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time; and at that time thy people shall be delivered

    הַנִּמְצָ֖א (נִּמְצָ֖א) nim.Tza' “[one who] is found”

  12. Hosea 2:8

    Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns, and I will make a wall against her, that she shall not find her paths.

    תִמְצָֽא׃ tim.Tza' “she will find”

  13. Hosea 2:9

    And she shall run after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them, and she shall seek them, but shall not find them; then shall she say: 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.'

    תִמְצָ֑א tim.Tza' “she will find [them]”

  14. Hosea 5:6

    With their flocks and with their herds they shall go to seek the LORD, but they shall not find Him; He hath withdrawn Himself from them.

    יִמְצָ֑אוּ yim.Tza.'u “they will find [him]”

  15. Hosea 9:10

    I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness, I saw your fathers as the first-ripe in the fig-tree at her first season; but so soon as they came to Baal-peor, they separated themselves unto the shameful thing, and became detestable like that which they l

    מָצָ֙אתִי֙ ma.Tza.ti “I found”

  16. Hosea 12:5

    So he strove with an angel, and prevailed; he wept, and made supplication unto him; at Beth-el he would find him, and there he would speak with us;

    יִמְצָאֶ֔נּוּ (יִמְצָאֶ֔) yim.tza.'E. “he found”

  17. Hosea 12:9

    And Ephraim said: 'Surely I am become rich, I have found me wealth; in all my labours they shall find in me no iniquity that were sin.'

    מָצָ֥אתִי ma.Tza.ti “I have found”יִמְצְאוּ־ yim.tze.'u- “people will find”

  18. Hosea 14:9

    Ephraim shall say: 'What have I to do any more with idols?' As for Me, I respond and look on him; I am like a leafy cypress-tree; from Me is thy fruit found.

    נִמְצָֽא׃ nim.Tza' “it is found”

  19. Amos 8:12

    And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east; they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the LORD, and shall not find it.

    יִמְצָֽאוּ׃ yim.Tza.'u “they will find [it]”

  20. Jonah 1:3

    But Jonah rose up to flee unto Tarshish from the presence of the LORD; and he went down to Joppa, and found a ship going to Tarshish; so he paid the fare thereof, and went down into it, to go with them unto Tarshish, from the presence of the LORD.

    וַיִּמְצָ֥א (יִּמְצָ֥א) i.yim.Tza' “he found”

  21. Micah 1:13

    Bind the chariots to the swift steeds, O inhabitant of Lachish; she was the beginning of sin to the daughter of Zion; for the transgressions of Israel are found in thee.

    נִמְצְא֖וּ nim.tze.'U “they were found”

  22. Zephaniah 3:13

    The remnant of Israel shall not do iniquity, nor speak lies, neither shall a deceitful tongue be found in their mouth; for they shall feed and lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

    יִמָּצֵ֥א yi.ma.Tze' “it will be found”

  23. Zechariah 10:10

    I will bring them back also out of the land of Egypt, and gather them out of Assyria; and I will bring them into the land of Gilead and Lebanon; and place shall not suffice them.

    יִמָּצֵ֖א yi.ma.Tze' “it will be found”

  24. Zechariah 11:6

    For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD; but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king; and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.'

    מַמְצִ֣יא mam.Tzi' “[am] about to deliver”

  25. Malachi 2:6

    The law of truth was in his mouth, and unrighteousness was not found in his lips; he walked with Me in peace and uprightness, and did turn many away from iniquity.

    נִמְצָ֣א nim.Tza' “it was found”