מֹצָה
Mozah
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Mozah’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H4681 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Joshua 1 verse
About this entry
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“Mozah” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name מצה (Môtsâh). It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. It clusters heavily in Joshua, which alone accounts for 100% of its uses. It occurs only once, in Joshua 18:26. See 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4681 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Joshua 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Mozah 1×
- American Standard Version: Mozah 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Mozah 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Mozah 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4681 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H4681 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H4681 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4681 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Mozah = "fountain"
- one of the towns in Benjamin; site unknown
Word origin
מֹצָה n.pr.loc. in Benj., Jos 18:26
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from מצה (mâtsâh) (H4680) — to drain.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
מָצָה
- , v. מצי II
מַצָּה
- 1. [dry, pressed bread,] unleavened bread, esp. the bread served at the Passover meal. Pes. X, 3. Ib. 5 כל שלא אמר … פסח מ׳ וכ׳ whoever does not explain, at the meal, the following three ceremonies, has not done his duty, and these they are: the Passover sacrifice, the eating of matsah and the bitter herbs. Men. V, 1 כל המנחות באות מ׳ all meal offerings are offered in an unleavened condition, opp. חָמֵץ. Pes. 35ᵃ דברים הבאים … אדם יוצא בהן ידי חובתו במ׳ one performs his duty of eating matsah (on the first Passover night) with such things only as are capable of leavening (the five species of grain); a. fr.—Pl. מַצּוֹת. Mekh. Bo, s. 8 שומע אני כל מ׳ במשמע I might think anything unleavened is included (may be used for eating on the first Passover night); a. fr.
- 2. עו̇ר המ׳, or מ׳ a hide not tanned by a process of fermentation, untanned hide. Kel. XVII, 15. Gitt. 22ᵃ; Sabb. 79ᵃ שלשה עורות הן מ׳ וכ׳ there are three kinds of hides, matsah &c., v. דִּיפְתְּרָא. Ib. מ׳ כמשמעו וכ׳ m. is what its name implies, not salted and floured nor tanned with gall-nut.
מצי ²
- (b. h.) to squeeze, wring, esp. to wring out the blood of the bird sacrifice. Sifra Vayikra, N’dab., ch. VIII, Par. 7 הוא מוֹצֶה he wrings it; a. fr.
- 1. same. Zeb. VI, 5, sq.; a. fr.—2) same.
- to pour out to the last drop, to drain. Ib. 64ᵇ מי כתיב יְמַצֶּה יִמָּצֵה וכ׳ (ed. punctuate יַמְצֶה, Hif.) it does not say (Lev. V, 9), ‘he shall pour out (the remainder) at the bottom &c.’, but ‘it shall be wrung out’, which means, that it will run out to the bottom of itself. Ter. XI, 8 הִרְכִּינָהּ ומִיצָּה (Y. ed. ומִיצֵּת; Ms. M. ומִצֵּת) if he bent the vessel and drained it; B. Bath. 87ᵇ (Ms. H. a. R. ומיצת); ib. V, 8 (87ᵃ) הרכינה ומיצה (Y. ed. ומצת; Bab. ed. ומִיצֵּית, Ms. M. ומִיצֵּת; Ms. R. ומִיצְּתָהּ). Gen. R. s. 85; s. 92 (play on מצא, Gen. XLIV, 16) כזה שהוא מְמַצֶּה וכ׳ as one drains a vessel and leaves nothing but the lees. Midr. Till. to Ps. LIX (play on מצא, Prov. XVIII, 22) כשהאשה רעה היא מְמַצָּה (כל) הטובות כולן מביתו וכ׳ ed. Bub. (oth. ed. ממַצֶּאֶת, a. oth. variants) when the wife is bad, she drains all the good things out of his house and makes him poor; Yalk. Prov. 957 ממציא (read: מְמַצֵּית); a. fr. e.g. Leviticus 5:9
- 3. (cmp. מָצַע) מ׳ מידות to measure exactly. Erub. IV, 11 (52ᵇ) אין המשוחות מְמַצִּין וכ׳ the surveyors (in marking distances for Sabbath limits) do not measure exactly (but mark within the limits), in order to allow for mistakes.—Trnsf. to sound one’s learning. Men. 18ᵃ למַצֹּות מידותי to have my own learning examined; למ׳ מידותיו וכ׳ to sound the learning of &c.
- to be wrung out; to be emptied, drained Sifra Vayikra, Ḥob., Par. 10, ch. XVIII; Zeb. 64ᵇ שהשירין מִתְמַצִּים ליסוד where the remainder is poured out towards the bottom of the altar; a. fr. [Ib. VI, 4 (64ᵇ) היה מתמצה, read מְמַצֶּה, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 50.]—Y. R. Hash. I, 56ᵈ top; Y. Shek. III, beg. 47ᵇ עד כאן הן מִתְמַצּוֹת לילד וכ׳ up to that time (the first of Elul) the latest births of the old year (of those conceived before the first of Nisan) take place &c.—Trnsf. (with חשבון) to be exactly counted, to be finally settled. Y. Sot. I, 17ᵃ (he suffers a loss by the death of his ox &c.) והחשבון מִתְמַצֶּה and the account (of his sins) is settled; ib.; Num. R. s. 9 אחת מתארעא וכ׳, v. אָרַע I; Koh. R. to VII, 27.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Mozah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
An issuing of water, a city of Benjamin (Josh. 18:26).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(fountain), one of the cities in the allotment of Benjamin, (Joshua 18:26) only, named between hae-Cephirah and Rekem.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
unleavened
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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