מוֹצָא motsa

Hebrew word for “exit” · Strong’s H4161 · used 27 times in 26 verses

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Meaning

1) act or place of going out or forth, issue, export, source, spring;

How it is translated

Glosses given for motsa in context, with how often each is used:

• utterance 5
• going forth 4
• springs 3
• exits 3
• points of departure 2
• export 2
• outlet 2
• exit 1
• mine 1
• goings out 1
• going out 1
• like a spring 1

Where it is used

Also in 1 more book.

Chapters where it is used most

Psalms 107 (2), Numbers 30 (1), Numbers 33 (1), Deuteronomy 8 (1), Deuteronomy 23 (1), 2 Samuel 3 (1), 1 Kings 10 (1), 2 Kings 2 (1), 2 Chronicles 1 (1), 2 Chronicles 32 (1)

Forms

• מוצא 7
• ומוצא 3
• מצא 2
• מוצאו 2
• מוצאי 2
• מוצאיהם 1
• למוצאיהם 1
• מוצאך 1
• ממוצא 1
• ומצאי 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with motsa more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• מַי mayim “water” 6
• שָׂפָה saphah “lips” 4
• יָדַע yada “to know” 6
• מוֹבָא mova “entrance” 2
• מִדְבָּר midbar “wilderness” 4
• אֲגַם agam “pool” 2
• מִקְוֶה miqveh “hope” 2
• שׂוּם sum “to set” 4
• מַעֲרָב maarav “west” 2
• מְחִיר mechir “price” 2
• צִיָּה tsiyyah “dryness” 2
• סָחַר sachar “to trade” 2

Key verses

The verses using motsa that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Deuteronomy 8:3 — And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know…
• 2 Kings 2:21 — And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from…
• Psalms 65:8 — They also that dwell in the uttermost parts are afraid at thy tokens: thou makest the outgoings of the morning and evening to rejoice.
• Psalms 89:34 — My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips.
• Psalms 107:33 — He turneth rivers into a wilderness, and the watersprings into dry ground;
• Psalms 107:35 — He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
• Isaiah 41:18 — I will open rivers in high places, and fountains in the midst of the valleys: I will make the wilderness a pool of water, and the dry land springs of water.
• Isaiah 58:11 — And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring…
• Jeremiah 17:16 — As for me, I have not hastened from being a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was…
• Ezekiel 44:5 — And the LORD said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances…
• Daniel 9:25 — Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks,…
• Hosea 6:3 — Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.