Lexical Definition

‎מַצָּה‎ matstsâh (mats-tsaw') unleavened bread ^H:N-F
from ‎מָצַץ‎ in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness

unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven.

• properly, sweetness
• concretely, sweet (i.e. not soured or bittered with yeast)
• specifically, an unfermented cake or loaf, or (elliptically) the festival of Passover (because no leaven was then used)

1) unleavened (bread, cake), without leaven.

See Greek: ἄρτος · κακός · μάχη

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. ‎מַצָּה‎ noun feminine unleavened bread, or cake(s); — absolute ‎׳‎‎מ‎ Lev 2:5; Lev 8:26 (‎אַחַת‎ ‎׳‎‎חַלַּת מ‎), Num 6:19 (id.), vNum 6:19 usually plural ‎מַצּוֺת‎ Exod 12:15 + 44 t.; ‎מַצֹּת‎ Exod 12:18 + 3 t; — unleavened bread, prepared in form of ‎לֶחֶם‎ Exod 29:2 ‎חַלָּה‎ Exod 29:2 + 4 t. P; ‎רקיקים‎ Exod 29:2; 1Chr 23:29 + 4 t. P; ‎עגּה‎ Exod 12:39 used at ordinary meals (prepared hastily): ‎׳‎‎אפה מ‎ Gen 19:3 (J), Exod 12:39 (J), 1Sam 28:24 probably also Judg 6:19; Judg 6:20; Judg 6:21 (twice in verse); elsewhere at sacrificial meals, e.g. ritual peace-offerings Lev 2:4 (twice in verse); Lev 2:5; Lev 6:9*; Lev 7:12 (twice in verse); Lev 10:12 consecration of priesthood Exod 29:2 (3 t. in verse); Exod 29:23; Lev 8:2; Lev 8:26; Lev 8:26 at peace-offering of Nazirite Num 6:15 (twice in verse); Num 6:17; Num 6:19 (twice in verse); at Passover Exod 12:8; Num 9:11 (all P); especially at feast of unleavened bread [cakes] for 7 days after Passover ‎׳‎‎שׁמר חג המ‎ Exod 23:15 (E), Exod 34:18 (J); ‎׳‎‎שׁסר מ‎ Exod 12:17 (P), ‎עשׂה‎ ‎׳‎‎חג (ה)מ‎ 2Chr 30:13; 2Chr 30:21; 2Chr 35:17; Ezra 6:22 ‎׳‎‎בחג המ‎ Deut 16:16; 2Chr 8:13 ‎׳‎‎לי‎ ‎׳‎‎חג המ‎ Lev 23:6. During these seven days all Israel ate ‎מצות‎ Exod 12:15; Exod 12:18; Exod 12:20 (P), Exod 23:15 (E), Exod 13:6; Exod 13:7; Exod 34:18 (J), Lev 23:6; Num 28:17 (P), Deut 16:3; Deut 16:8; Josh 5:11; Ezek 45:21. — 2Kgs 23:9 read probably ‎מִצְוֺת‎ or ‎מִנָיוֺת‎ for ᵑ0 ‎׳‎‎מ‎ (‎אכל‎); so Gei Kue Kmp Bu. [‎מָצֻק‎] see ‎מָצוּק‎ below II. ‎צוק‎ [‎מְצֻקָה‎] see ‎מצוּקָה‎ below I. ‎צוק‎ [‎מֻצֶ֫קֶת‎] see ‎׳‎‎מוּצ‎ below ‎יצק‎. ‎מֵצַר‎ see I. ‎צרר‎.

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