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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - מָצָא
מָצָא
H4672
Transliteration: mâtsâʼ
Pronunciation: maw-tsaw'
Definition: be able
Original: מצא Transliteration: mâtsâ' Phonetic: maw-tsaw'
BDB Definition:
- to find, attain to
- (Qal)
- to find
- to find, secure, acquire, get (thing sought)
- to find (what is lost)
- to meet, encounter
- to find (a condition)
- to learn, devise
- to find out
- to find out
- to detect
- to guess
- to come upon, light upon
- to happen upon, meet, fall in with
- to hit
- to befall
- to find
- (Niphal)
- to be found
- to be encountered, be lighted upon, be discovered
- to appear, be recognised
- to be discovered, be detected
- to be gained, be secured
- to be, be found
- to be found in
- to be in the possession of
- to be found in (a place), happen to be
- to be left (after war)
- to be present
- to prove to be
- to be found sufficient, be enough
- to be found
- (Hiphil)
- to cause to find, attain
- to cause to light upon, come upon, come
- to cause to encounter
- to present (offering)
- (Qal)