H4682 מַצָּה (mats-tsaw')

KJV renderings

unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven.

Strong's 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)

Derivation

from H4711 (מָצַץ) in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness;

From James Strong's public-domain dictionaries (H), JSON edition by OpenScriptures (CC-BY-SA). Every dotted-underline word in the text links here.

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