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unleavened bread or cake Original Word: מַצָּהTransliteration: matstsah Phonetic Spelling: (mats-tsaw') Short Definition: unleaved bread
from matsats Definition unleavened bread or cake NASB Word Usage unleavened (15), Unleavened Bread (10), unleavened bread (25), unleavened cakes (3). NAS Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible with Hebrew-Aramaic and Greek Dictionaries Copyright © 1981, 1998 by The Lockman Foundation All rights reserved Lockman.org
From matsats in the sense of greedily devouring for sweetness; 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) -- unleaved (bread, cake), without leaven. see HEBREW matsats
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