Strong's H4682 (Hebrew)

Hebrew: מַצָּה (matstsâh)

Pronunciation: mats-tsaw'

Morphology: n-f

Derivation: from מָצַץ (mâtsats) [H4711] in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness;

Definition: 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)

KJV Renderings: unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven.

Senses

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

Cross References

Sources. The definition, derivation and KJV renderings are James Strong's own wording from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890) — public domain. The numbered senses and the Hebrew–Greek cross-references are the editorial work of the OpenScriptures Strong's dictionary, licensed CC BY-SA 3.0; their sense-outline conventions match the Outline of Biblical Usage (Online Bible, Larry Pierce), noted as a convention match rather than a documented claim.